It started with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fast-tracking Obamacare and urging lawmakers to read it after voting in the affirmative. In Brooklyn, that’s called a clue.
Then Donald Berwick was recess appointed to head Medicaid and Medicare, and to function as Obamacare’s Rationing Czar. He was recess appointed because the Senate found rather distressing his lack of straight answers on his fondness for eugenics.
It continues with the trend in medicine to continuously expand the definition of “death” for the purpose of organ harvesting to the point that two American bioethicists recently claimed that there is nothing morally wrong with killing, if the individual has lost function and autonomy. Read it here.
All of this, and so much more, points to the real bloodbath that is Obamacare:
Aggressive eugenics feeding the population control agenda.
Enter the HHS mandate forcing the Catholic Church to purchase contraceptives. It’s a brilliant political strategy on Obama’s part, and his Catholic supporters (54%) have aided in this development. It’s the old two-step, one-step; and nobody does it better than the Democrats all up and down the Potomac.
The HHS mandate was Obama pushing two steps forward. If he met with no opposition, he would be significantly ahead of the game. If he met with fierce opposition, then he at least would have galvanized his radical base and caused his opposition to focus on the front end of the life spectrum, while distracting from the real payout for the Culture of Death on the other end of the life spectrum.
Will Obama capitulate? If he does he’ll be lionized in the press as being reasonable and open to dialogue, as well as change. He’ll be juxtaposed with the ‘rigid religious right’ who will not yield an inch. In the end, we will have been too narrowly focussed on the religious liberty issue and will have failed to see the set-up for what it was.
He’ll still be one step ahead, as he will have thrown the right’s attention off of the rest of Obamacare, which will have been tweaked instead of routed.
Our efforts at dealing with the HHS mandate must be tied to a deeper examination of Obamacare and the reality that there is simply no money for all Americans to receive the level and quality of care that those with insurance currently enjoy. There will be a massive decrease in the quantity, type, and quality of service that we will receive in the future, because the very system promising universal coverage is the very system bankrupting the nation.
The eugenists have been setting the table for decades, as have the organ donor folks, and now we are seeing the dangerous and deadly confluence of those two rivers under nationalized health care.
The fight over religious liberty is an important one, and one where we must prevail. However, we need to understand that we are engaged in the two-step, one-step with something far, far, more ominous and consequential. A victory over the HHS mandate that does not translate into momentum for destroying Obamacare is simply putting lipstick on a pig.
It is a rare day that this blog ventures into presidential politics so deeply, but this is not merely an issue of religious liberty. This is about an existential threat. If Obama is not defeated in November, battles over the First Amendment will seem a quaint parlor game compared to what will befall our nation.
If we are to salvage our national identity, this president and his pig need to be retired at the polls in November.
True and very frightening! For all you Catholics that voted for Obama, do you still think there are issues more important than protecting life including your own life?
We shall pray that people will be aware of the issue and act for life. Let trust in the power of God and pray.
You are SO right! I saw this morning an article revealing Obama’s plan to capitulate on the onerous HHS mandate. His compromise will be to stick the Catholic institutions’ insurance companies with the responsibility of providing contraception and sterilization coverage to the employees who choose to take advantage of it. The intent is to circumvent the Catholic employer and still give free contraception and sterilization coverage to the Catholic institution’s employees. This is more lipstick on the same old pig and a clear attempt to derail the lawsuits that have been filed to void the mandate. Let’s pray that our bishops and those who have filed lawsuits continue to fight, not just the mandate, but the whole evil ObamaCare law. It must be repealed and / or declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
It’s also a great election strategy if Romney is his opponent. “I backed away from imposing regulations on religious organizations, while Mr Romney’s plan for Massachusetts mandated not just religious org’s insurers to cover birth control options, but the actual providing of products and services by objecting medical facilities…”
Dr. Nadal,
You are so (sadly) correct in your assessment. The contraceptive mandate is just the start of horrific discoveries to come…thus the
reason for implementation over several years. The next outrage coming down the pike….the IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board): appointed bureaucrats charged with deciding who will get care, how much, how often and at what cost, based on the “complete lives system” designed by Ezekiel Emanuel MD
THIS WILL BE RATIONING OF HEALTHCARE BASED ON YOUR AGE, AND THE QUALITY AND USEFULNESS OF YOUR LIFE–DETERMINED BY A BOARD OF BUREAUCRATS.
THIS IS RATIONING, AND IT IS COMING IF WE DON”T REPEAL THIS EVIL BILL !
Obama’s Health Rationer-in-Chief
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet
Sounds like we are on our way to Nazi Germany…… one step at a time…. including all the socialists that have made their way into our elected governments… their utter disregard for life or the Church…. their need to feel like they are the progressives…..
[...] When the President of the United States receives an honorary doctorate from the most revered Catholic University in the nation and gives his word, then is received by the Catholic health professionals and gives his word, then invites the head of the Catholic Bishops to personally give his word, and then makes them all look like fools, it’s hard to admit to having been played for a fool. However, we must recognize the true danger lurking in the president’s health care plan, as I wrote about yesterday. [...]
[...] When the President of the United States receives an honorary doctorate from the most revered Catholic University in the nation and gives his word, then is received by the Catholic health professionals and gives his word, then invites the head of the Catholic Bishops to personally give his word, and then makes them all look like fools, it’s hard to admit to having been played for a fool. However, we must recognize the true danger lurking in the president’s health care plan, as I wrote about yesterday. [...]