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TODAY’s ARTICLE:
This article (1) is an example of the worst case scenario for socialized American medicine. Wikipedia says this idea is a myth (2), because in 2009 people speculated that government officials would override the value of human life when medicine became a public service, but they were wrong and it happened in this article.
Let me strip the story down to bare bones;
a failed suicide left a young mother of two brain dead, her Dad didn’t want to pull the plug, a doctor disagreed, doctor gave Dad three minutes to say goodbye, three minutes pass, sheriff escorts Dad away, doctors take brain dead girl to harvest her organs, organs potentially save five other people’s lives, and see it is all good that someone smarter made the decision to harvest this woman’s body than to respect the father’s wishes.
You thought this was a bad story? No no, because actually socialized medicine’s death panels are a good thing…. is the lesson learned, according to The Guardian reporting it.
Making this decision saved the taxpayer money and saved the lives of other people waiting for organ transplants.
Looking back now, not only did the government lie to us about socialized medicine saving the US taxpayer money but they also lied about the inevitability of death panels.
The most simple way to break this down is that by allowing the government to enumerate the value of one life the American citizen can no longer assume that their best interests are at the heart of the doctor’s recommendation.
For each patients life to be compared to the value of anything will inevitably be used to progress somebody’s political agenda, and I like to think that my life is more important than anyone’s political agenda.
Can you imagine a world where human beings are told to attend a doctors appointment for no other reason than to fulfill the desires of Congress, whether it is what’s best, in regard to your medical history, or not? Possibly, to inject something into your body that nobody knew what would happen and nobody ever will know what did happen from forcing people to cow-tow their directive?
This is why God is important, because if you go by The Guardian’s metric, where one woman’s life was sacrificed to serve the lives of five other people awaiting organ transplant, then of course we should do that. Why not? Five is greater than one.
However, to believe in God means that each and every one of us is made in the omnipotent image of God, which means the value of our life is more than any number can capture. Every single person is assumed to be infinitely valuable and their time on earth is honored as something akin to godlike, but that is not how socialize medicine calculates it.
We could go on for days to give examples of how enumerating human life could be used to justify pretty much anything, but what is most important is that socialized medicine takes the value of human life and turns it into a box listed on a bureaucratic decision making flow chart, instead of its value to be alive regarded as self-evident.
Americans lost more than they realized when they decided to support socialized medicine and the worst is yet to come.
Prepubescent boys getting their penis’s chopped off and organ harvesting patients is just the beginning of American ideological healthcare.
(1) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/28/hospital-organ-donation-death-lawsuit-fresno-california
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel
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