Methods and Madness

Sarah Palin is being roundly pilloried by the elite, after her prudent statement about the real potential for evil in the universal care regime being promulgated in the US House of Representatives. As the mother of a child with disabilities, Palin recognizes an abundance of caution must be exercised when contemplating the most drastic reworking ever attempted of the US health system. Taxpayer funding for elective abortion, foeticide on demand for those who negligently had intercourse and then deliberately eschewed widely available and often free contraception (through health departments, college care providers, and even some secondary school nurses) rankles many religious people and others who simply do not want their tax confiscated lucre going to fund what they see as murder. Many look at the movers behind the administration's universal coverage push and are distressed to see Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to Obama's Chief of Staff, and an acolyte of Dr. Peter Singer, the world's foremost proponent of euthanasia, in a crucial advisory position. Even the left-wing press terms Singer controversial, which is a lamentable understatement. Singer is a eugenicist, not a racial purist, but one who pushes for the termination of the aged, infirm, and the disabled. The competing Democrat plans now advancing in the House and Senate are fraught with peril beyond the evils of abortion and denial of care to those no longer or never deemed capable of being productive. Any plan to streamline the provision of medical service by digitizing all medical records is subject to data breach and abuse. All your online records could well include your social security number and your mother's maiden name. You would be easy pickings for identity theft. If you are a celebrity, your records could more easily be accessed by tabloids. If you ever had an STD (what used to be called a social disease), you could find yourself subjected to extortion. Most importantly, the social engineers can use universal care as a lever against your liberty. They will exert their authority to manipulate your behavior in terms of obesity and smoking. If a child you do not know and will never meet suffers from asthma, your medical masters may not permit you to drive a SUV-your large family will suffer to limit the pollution some bureaucrat claims is exacerbating a stranger's breathing difficulties. You may even have to limit the size of your own family based on the danger of their supposed carbon footprint. Extending health insurance to a few seems a sad trade off when measured against rationing care and forcing decisions on the many.