Jack Lew Acknowledges Obamacare Is Health Fascism
February 13, 2012 7 Comments
New Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew appeared on Fox News Sunday over the weekend. Lew declared that under Obamacare the President has the authority to order insurance companies to cover a service and cover that service for free. Lew went on to declare that forcing insurance companies to cover contraception wouldn’t actually cost the companies anything, pointing to alleged actuarial projections. Lew articulated for the first time that the Obama administration supports health fascism. He also articulated what many of us knew already, the Obama administration believes children are a financial burden.
How can there be freedom when the government can order health insurance companies to not only cover a certain product but cover that product for free? What Jack Lew defended yesterday is nothing short of health fascism. Fascism was a product of the left in the early 20th century. The difference between fascism and communism is that under fascism the government allowed the owners of businesses to keep their businesses. However those businesses had to do what the government told them to do, produce what they were told to produce in the quantity they were ordered at and by the employees the government told the business to employ. Essentially business owners became the government’s middle managers. Under communism, business owners were killed and the state took over both ownership and management.
When you look at what Lew said, how is the structure of Obamacare any different than the business structure in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy or Spain? You can keep your insurance company, but you’re going to run it the way Obama tells you to and you’ll be offering the products he wants. For free even if he so declares! There’s no freedom for anyone under Obamacare. The government is going to tell companies what they have to offer and we consumers have no choice but to purchase that which the government has ordered. It’s health fascism. Is this what the American people thought Obamacare was going to be? It seems highly unlikely.
But Lew didn’t stop there. He alleges that health insurance companies will break even if they pay for contraception. This of course implies that children are a financial burden worth reducing. In other words, children don’t matter a whole lot to the Obama administration. They’re like old people, a financial burden. In short, the Obama administration has reduced the joy of parenthood down to a pure financial number, determining it just isn’t worth it. Never mind the non-financial and non-quantitative positives of having children. Children are just another wasteful cost.
If children are a wasteful financial burden, as Lew suggests, and if the President now has the power to order insurance companies to offer products whether they want to or not, one is left to wonder how much control does the President have over our health? How long will it be before the President, be it Obama or someone else, believes they have the power of life and death?
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger famously suggested parents be required to have a license before having children. Under Obamacare, is it possible this could happen? What a wonderful cost saving requirement this could be! And who would be able to stop it? All health power is vested in the President according to Obamacare. Sarah Palin was maligned for her death panels comment. In light of Lew’s recent statements, it’s hardly unreasonable to wonder what sort of end of life power is now vested in the President. If he can order insurance companies to offer products and services, can’t he also order them to stop offering services and products?
Obamacare was forced though Congress without the American people having a chance to see what it actually was. Nancy Pelosi so much as acknowledged this when it was being passed. Now we’re finding out just how much power the President has over our lives. Is this the America that the founders created? A nation where the President has the power to control our health and our health insurance? This whole contraception episode ought to make all Americans, including those who support contraception, wonder just how much power the President has over our health.
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Great Post! I somehow agree with Steven, the church should concentrate and go back to what they are supposed to do and as for the government, they should concentrate more on running and governing the country.
I’m certain that churches all over America would the thrilled to focus on theology, serving believers and serving the public the Good News of Christ. Unfortunately the Obama administration is issuing edicts that threaten not only particular theological viewpoints but the very right of people and churches to live out those viewpoints. We should be so blessed as to have the government focusing on its Constitutional duties rather than issues that are none of their business such as contraception.
I’m sorry Vern but I had to remove your comment because it contained coarse language. I don’t have any problem with you or anyone else presenting an opposing position to my own. But I will not tolerate coarse language in comments. Please in the future refrain from using such language.
I don’t care Steve. i hope you look in the mirror and know how nauseating and pathetic you really are. You are a hate filled fanatic. Adolf Hitler’s turned his self loathing into hatred of Jews: you are turning your hatred of yourself into the hatred of the supposed “evil liberals”. I bet you can even smell the bad stench of a liberal when one is in the same room with you. You write garbage.. Your logic is the logic of a half-witted moron. I urge anyone with any decency who may read this to realize what an evil hate filled lunatic you are. if they want to know why I say this I will be glad to tell them in this column. i find that answering your irrational rantings are a waste of time.
Your only purpose for communicating is to follow Goebbels method of propaganda: If you repeat a lie often enough people will believe its true.
I do not know who your are or even if you are an individual or a group of psychopathic, unemployed or underemployed mal-educated, misanthropic neanderthals. I will be glad to answer any question from any of your readers.
Thank you for reading. Come back again soon!
LOL.
Shleigh: Do you have a brain? Do you speak? Or are you just one of the brainless droids who believes the rantings of right-wing lunatics like Birn?
Birn asks above:
“How long will it be before the President, be it Obama or someone else, believes they have the power of life and death?”
Answer: Well lets see is the government and the President involved in any of the following..? Do Americans die in war? Yes they do. Do Americans die in prisons? Yes they do. Do Americans die because of a lack of health insurance? Yes they do. Do Americans die because guns are widely available to everyone? Yes they do. Do terrorist die from American attacks? Yes they do. Have thousands of Afghans and Iraqis died from American attacks? Yes they have. Did thousands die because of President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Kuwait? Yes they did. Seems to me then that Birn’s alarmist “power of life and death” is just that-alarmist nonsense. This American government and the Office of the President already has and does exercise the power of life and death over human beings on a regular basis. To rant wildly about the desperately needed Health Care Reform Act as leading to a policy of the American government involvement in the killing and euthanasia of its own citizens is insane! These are the rantings of a paranoid lunatic.
Steve Birn has one talent: He is an excellent writer. I have never heard him speak and I have no idea what his persona might be. I have read all of his essays on this web and there is no doubt that he possesses a powerful tool to get his message out. I can only compare him to other great communicators who have come and caused great misery and suffering. He is a lawyer with at least seven years of education. He is able to sow together facts and theories in seemingly logical and rational ways. Unfortunately, those people here who support his lunatic rantings will ignore the wholes in his logic and his misrepresentation of the facts.
Martin Buber, the 20th-century Jewish philosopher, once said that the task of the biblical translator is to overcome “the leprosy of fluency,” a disease of the spirit that can lead us to imagine that we already know what we are reading, causing us blithely and triumphantly to read past the text.
The same is true in this blog: You will ignore my words because you are already confident of the truth as set forth by Birn.
Oh to you: Shleigh: LOL : )