Look, most of us agree that we need some kind of health care reform. I’m willing to entertain more government regulation of health care than I entertain in most other industries because health care is, indeed, something that everybody should have access to. This is a moral truth that all Christians should agree on, although good Christians can surely disagree on the best way to provide that access.
But the health care plans being foisted upon us by President Barack Obama (D) and the Democratic super-majorities in both houses of Congress are pretty reprehensible. While some parts of these plans are fine (like limitations on insurance companies holding ‘preexisting conditions’ against you), the whole idea of a government plan—even as an optional alternative to private plans—is frightening. With artificially limited prices, this government plan will likely supplant private plans in time and it will almost definitely begin to exhibit the same problems that all other public health care plans have exhibited in countries that have attempted this dangerous experiment. Beyond these ‘big picture’ concerns, however, there is the fact that the plans being considered in Congress are thousands of pages long and nobody—nobody—has actually read them in their entirety.
Doesn’t that scare you? Doesn’t it frighten you that Congress might pass a massive rewrite of our health care system un-read? It should. If they don’t know what’s in the thing, how can anybody know what it will do to our health care system?
