House Passes Healthcare Bill Over the Will of the People

The End of America Happens in the Middle of the Night

By Adam Murdock, M.D.

While normal everyday oblivious Americans were preparing their beds to sleep Saturday night November 7th, their elected officials quietly passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act by a vote of 220 to 215. Indeed, the passage of this act deals one of the final death blows to the Constitution and with it our liberties.

As I ponder upon this momentously horrid occurrence it is as if I have just woken up from a nightmare and been thrown directly into the plot of George Orwell’s 1984, with no hope of escape. As this thought grabs hold, I am led to ponder more and more about America and I ask myself a few questions.

Since when did the Constitution provide for a healthcare guarantee? Since when did the Constitution grant the Congress the power to force Americans into a healthcare dystopia? What good is a Constitution if we choose to ignore it? What good is a Constitution if the Congress simply chooses to create a new one in their own graven socialist image?

Truly, these questions are meaningless now. The Constitution is hanging by the tiniest of threads. Who will save it? Who will come to its rescue?

It is the everyday middle class American that will suffer the consequences of this travesty. Indeed, while the economy is reeling and unemployment pushes depression-era levels the arrogant Congress has decided to pass the biggest expansion of government in the history of the United States. It will create a new tax that will primarily be felt by the middle class, the ones most likely affected by the current depression. This is because as Americans are forced to purchase health insurance, the wealthy will have no problem paying for escalating costs. Nor will the poor feel the burden as they will receive government health insurance subsidies. Yet, the forgotten man will be the middle class working American who now already struggling against the burden of economic ruin will be forced to pay fines or even face possible jail time for not complying with our government’s take over of his or her healthcare.

As this tax sinks in, the middle class will be forced downward into the ranks of the working poor and therefore into the ranks of government rationed medical care. Inevitably, government healthcare will swallow the whole of the medical insurance world and there will be no escape.

This dystopian vision will consist of patients waiting in long lines and when they are finally permitted to see their doctor there will be much fruitless begging and pleading for the treatment that they desperately need. But no mercy will be given because the doctor will have become nothing more than a desk-clerk, simply following the government treatment protocols.

“What, you have shoulder pain?” Your doctor asks. “Well, the treatment protocol for this condition provided by our majestic government says you have to wait two years to get an MRI or to see an Orthopedist. I am sorry. Here are a few pain pills. There is nothing more that I can do. Have a nice day.”

Such will be conversations heard in doctor’s offices throughout America. Don’t believe me? I have personally lived in the socialist countries that we are now trying to emulate. This is the reality in these countries and the people there simply accept it and learn not to complain. We, in America, will also probably come to learn and accept over time what our benevolent government has chosen to grant us.

And what about our parents? It will not be long before the healthcare budget spirals out of control and our benevolent government is forced to make cuts. Who will they cut off first? Why, the elderly of course. The government will say that the elderly simply cost too much. They will say that the elderly are no longer productive members of society and have only a few years to live anyway so let’s just stop providing life-saving surgeries or needed food and water for these no longer useful people. Don’t believe me? Just look to these same socialist countries where the elderly are frequently pushed into hospice death programs when they have no terminal illness and denied needed surgeries because they are too old.

I could go on and on. Such is the fury and simultaneously the sorrow I feel for our country. Now is the time for our voices to be heard. Now is the time to make a stand before it is too late. We must fight to protect American from this government orchestrated destruction of America's healthcare system as it now goes to the Senate.

Adam Murdock, M.D. is the founder of The Freemen Institute, The Freemen Institute (TFI) is an educational and policy center concerned with preserving the foundations of liberty and the continuation of a free Republic. The institute seeks to highlight and pursue research and policies consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the original intent of the Founding Fathers. For more information about the Freemen Institute visit www.freemeninstitute.com.