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Another Threat to Human Dignity: Planned Health Care "Reform" a Threat to the Elderly The United Kingdom is a great example of what might be coming here in America. Socialized medicine at its "best." There, if a person is over 59, they cannot receive heart surgey, for example, because it is deemed too expensive and not needed. Why is it not needed? Because they are too old. How would you like your grandmother to die before God wills it simply because "society" deems she is no longer of any value? This system is not just in the United Kingdom, but also in Canada and other places around the world. Socilized medicine and socialism are moral ills that have been slowly and silently taking over for several decades. Obama, completely abdicating his duty to the people as the President of the United States, seeks to turn this nation into a land of socialized medicine. He wishes the government to rule over life and death. He knows not that God controls life and death, not him. This is not surprising, as Obama and his supporters have likened him unto the Messiah. He even had the affront to do this in the presence of the Cardinal Archbishop of New York. If ObamaCare goes forward, then this nation will be socialistic in a vital area. The United States was founded on the principle of individual liberty, and Obama now wants to take that away. He does not realize he is a CEO, so to speak, of a "corporation," the US Government, whose responsibility it is to provide an infrastructure of freedom for the people. He, instead, believes he is the Ruler of the Americas. This must be opposed by all true Christians in America, and indeed by all true Americans. And what about YOUR lawmakers who are deciding the fate of your parents, grandparents, and you yourself? They have their own healthcare package that is not subject to this new law. They will be covered for all health care needs, even while their contemporaries can't get necessary surgery because society deems them too old and worthless. Write to your Senators. Write to your Congressman. Call and write Obama and the White House staff (though they appear deaf to anything their employers, the American people, have to say.) If you don't want the socialist or communist hell that will be the complete realization of the Obamanation, then oppose ObamaCare. Do your duty as a citizen, and above all, do your duty as a Christian. Threats to Moral Conscience
Nelson K.
Steinhurst, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P Presently religious freedom is under threat in the United States. This is a basic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution to all American citizens. Tied with this is freedom of conscience. No person in the United States should be forced to act against their religious convictions and the associated moral consicence. Movements by the government to remove protections for conscience within the US Department of Health and Human Services stand to limit, if not obliterate the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. If these protections are removed, then health care workers - doctors, nurses, and others - may no longer have the right to object to participating in procedures that are against their faith and go against their conscience. They may not, for example, continue to be protected for refusing to participate in an abortion. Abortions, which are contrary to the law of God, are refused by Christian medical workers all the time, and they are protected for their choice. This protection may be removed by the US Government, and the health care workers could be unfairly stripped of their Constitutional rights. This causes great concern that it might be attempted despotism, and that is might be a move to make the United States of America, founded on Christian principles, ever more secular and godless. This is what surely is likely to happen when respect for personal conscience and freedom of religion is protected. Anything less is government oppression. No government should regulate religious matters. How would you like to be regulated in your religious beliefs by the government? That is what may just happen to health care workers in the United States very soon. Please contact the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington and let them know that you want these vital protections to remain in place. These protections are necessary to ensure that the Constitutional rights of health care workers with respect to freedom of religion are maintained.
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