Satisfy Your Moral Obligation!

I'm going to let this one marinate over the holiday weekend. I feel strongly there are some points here everyone needs to consider and many are away from their computers this weekend. More on Tuesday! Have a happy holiday!

This is the health care lobby's latest attempt to move forward this travesty of legislation, and infringement on our rights disguised as health care reform:

Fill in the blank_________________ thinks that no one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. We are the only western nation that does not treat healthcare as a fundamental human right rather than a privilege. This is a moral issue, not a political one. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day. (to be posted on Face book and Twitter)

Now this is wrong on so many fronts. First of all...When did we all become sheep incapable of forming our own opinions? I'm not now nor ever will be spoon fed my input on any issue. Especially by special interest groups in Washington.

While I agree no one should die for lack of health care, does anyone you know who has come to mind? Physicians have taken the Hippocratic oath, vowing to care for all who need them, without restitution. Could this misrepresentation be construed as a scare tactic or perhaps a tug on your sympathy? It's a non-issue in the United States of America.

"We are the only western nation that does not treat healthcare as a fundamental right rather than a privilege." Oh this is going to be a long one.... First of all we are also the only western nation that's a republic and a free market society. The most successful and longest standing form of government, bar none. What we are doing has worked for over 200 years, no other nation can say that. Yet you feel the need to mess with that by introducing socialized health care. No need to reinvent the wheel. If I'm ill I want to be right here, no one leaves our healthcare to go to those other countries for treatment. There is a reason, our healthcare is fine. Insurance, fraud, waste, and unnecessary law suits are the problem. Not a peep about addressing those. Now to the absurdity of that statement I refer you to your mother. I'm sure you also heard while growing up, "If everyone jumped off a bridge would you follow?" Healthcare is not defined as a right in our country, if you find other country's policies more attractive, move. I'll not have my moral obligation dictated to me by any government, that's the mantra of a fascist regime. You'll not turn my country into a socialist government because the insurance industry needs reform. Now they are using the media to tell you how to think. Isn't that a page out of the communist manifesto? Don't be a sheep, think for yourself.

This is an assault on our intelligence and our freedom. There is no healthcare issue, it's an insurance problem, a fraud and waste problem, manifested by an out of control legal system. Special interests are pushing this agenda. Why don't we look into the real cause? As my fifth grade teacher was fond of saying,"Do your homework people!"

Now let's address this moral issue. I urge you to solve your moral obligation to health care by following my lead. I write a check to:

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital home page Contact Us: ... Donations (800) 822-6344. Volunteer event fundraising (800) 457-2444 ...www.stjude.org

OR

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Official Web site of Shriners ...
Select a Hospital. Boston. Canada. Chicago. Cincinnati. Erie ... Burn Awareness. Shriners Hospitals for Children is a one-of-a-kind international health care ...
www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Main

This way we know our money is going to a deserving cause and right to the need. No government involvement to dip into the kitty for administration purposes. Fast, effective, moral solving, health care to those in need. Problem solved! There are other deserving charities as well. I think the above programs do a wonderful job, and it doesn't threaten my freedom a bit to support them, and my moral obligation is complete. Follow those links to fulfill yourself!

Washington is asking us to give up some of our freedom for security. It sounds attractive but is polar opposite to what our country was founded upon. If we are to be independent as defined by our founding fathers, we cannot be dependent upon government. This is a state by state issue, to be addressed locally, not by federal mandate. Why you ask? So there is a place to go after these ideas collapse like they are destined to do in the states that have tried them. Every state with a government insurance entitlement is in financial ruin. The programs are failures, plagued by red ink and improper care of the people they were trying to be morally responsible to.

The bottom line is... They are trying to sell ice cubes to Eskimos! We are insured and well cared for. Charity is for the non profits, not the government. Flood ST. Jude's and the Shriners' with cash so they can branch out and provide for more of the needy and deserving. Our health care is just fine. It's the insurance, and legal issues that need addressing. Washington, focus on the root of the problem, not the collateral damage.

God Bless
Capt. Bill