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I am not going to bore you in this article with the technical points of budget scoring or anything like that. I approach my opposition from an ideological perspective and a personal one.

  • I Don’t trust the government-  I don’t trust the government as a trustworthy contracting party.  I don’t trust the competence of government bureaucrats.  Make no mistake.  The Democrats in Congress whether by the front door or the back door (co-ops) will slowly, but surely transfer our health care system into a single payer system where the government pays for and decides all of the health care we will get.  The less the government is involved in things, the better. There will be rationing of health care-  Very simply, if there is not an unlimited supply of a product or service, there is rationing.  It appears that the government will ration health care using the cost benefit analysis.  As a probate attorney, I surely agree that people should have medical Powers of Attorney and I help people write theirs every day (sloanlawfirm.net) .  However, the government should not be the one that decides who lives or dies, who gets health care.  Having a wife who is disabled, http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/living-with-a-young-disabled-wife/. I am concerned about this.  She is not going to be much of a contributor to the tax base for the rest of her life.  Will the government decide that she is expendable?  Former Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm lit a firestorm of controversy decades ago when he suggested that old people have a duty to die.  The move toward “socalized medicine” will only further progress the culture of death that exists in this day and age which is now at the beginning and end of life and will start to creep toward the middle.
  •  Abortion-  Pro-abortion people are called “pro-choice”.  Should it not be my choice whether I have to fund someone else’s abortion as opposed to having to fund it with my tax dollars?  Make no mistake, the pro-choice legislators who run Congress and the White House will make sure that the health care bill is silent on the abortion issue so as to not upset the pro-life people who mostly support the bill.  Then the Department of Health and Human Services will make sure abortions are funded when they write the tens of thousands of pages of regulations on the bill. 
  •  I will probably have to fire one of my workers-  I run a small law firm;  I have two employees.  I pay for the health insurance of one, but cannot for another.  The government will force me to pay for the health care of both if the bill passes; otherwise I will pay a fine.  I can’t and won’t.  I will either have to lay that other employee off, close down the business and every one loses her job or fire the other employee and have her work for me through an employment agency.  I refuse to pay the surtax that the government will place on me. 
  •  My solutions-  I have some.  I will post these in my next article.