…If you destroy the rights to life and liberty to establish it?
Among us today, there is a relentless mantra pushing for public healthcare: “How can we let this single mom bear the load by herself?” or “Surely we won’t let this little girl with leukemia die just because she can’t afford care?”
The context of these questions is not to raise funds for charity to help, but to raise taxes to force some people to pay for the care of others. The underlying philosophy behind those questions is the idea that every human has the right to healthcare. A right is something that cannot be denied to a person.
Thus, if everyone has the right to healthcare, then doctors don’t have the right not to be doctors. They can no longer choose their patients. The government can put a gun to the doctor’s head and tell him or her what they are allowed to charge, and who they will see, and for how long.
If we have a right to healthcare, a right that cannot be denied, then if there is ever a shortage of doctors, the government would be obligated to force more people into becoming doctors, or to force current doctors to work harder and longer hours.
So, if we have the right to healthcare, then doctors no longer have the right to liberty.
The same goes for the rest of us. This free healthcare does have to be paid for. So, either all of us, or some of us, will no longer be free to simply exist in freedom. You will have to work a certain amount to pay the taxes to cover the healthcare costs of others, and the government will put a gun to your head if you don’t. None of us can have the right to liberty if we all have the right to healthcare.
Most importantly, we must face the brutal fact that America no longer practices a respect for the right to life. We’ve been murdering our children out of convenience since 1973. We have sympathy for euthanasia.
It is a fact that most public healthcare systems of the world do have death panels, including and especially Britain. These are small panels of unelected, appointed officials who vote to decide if a patient is worthy of healthcare spending. (Recently, Britain has been euthanizing its elderly at a rate of several hundred thousand per year because they aren’t deemed worth the expense.)
So, in a culture like ours that believes we have the authority to determine matters of life and death, is it any stretch of the mind at all to believe that a right to healthcare will quickly morph into a conditional right to healthcare since it is not believed you have the right to life?
(We won’t even go into the fact that at some point a vindictive president would use this system to punish his political enemies by denying them healthcare. We’ve already seen President Obama use the IRS to punish conservatives for their affiliations.)
Logically, any supposed “right” that by definition would void other, well-established rights, cannot be a true right.
Rights come from God.
This is the fact that so many Americans have forgotten. They do not originate from our system of government. If our government violates our rights, they stand guilty before God.
The Declaration of Independence states very clearly that we are all born with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (The “pursuit of happiness” part is a reference to property), and that these rights are endowed to us by Our Creator.
The authority for the Declaration of Independence is the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God. In them, God clearly declared these rights
In the Ten Commandments, God did not declare that we all have the right to healthcare. In fact, nowhere in the Bible does God say that or anything that could be construed to mean that. So, where is the authority of the person that claims we have a right to healthcare? What is their source of authority to declare it a right?
After all, if God endowed all of us with a right to healthcare, then why didn’t He create three people instead of two: Adam, Eve, and a doctor?
Yes, we are supposed to help our neighbor, even sacrificially, with healthcare and every other need. But the difference is whether we help voluntarily or because we’re forced to.
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