July 27, 2010
Pros and cons of universal health care: a second opinion
by Mary Faulds
Pro-life supporters will find themselves paying for abortion coverage as well. “Even though Congress has indicated that abortion isn’t covered here,” said McAlister, “it really is, and they’ve just used a lot of smoke and mirrors to try to show that it isn’t. They’ve set up different things about making separate payments to cover abortion, putting those who support it in a separate bank account.” However, she said safeguards are not sufficient to exempt people from subsidizing abortions.
Liberty Counsel determined from reading the bill that it was not what this country needed. So when the legislation was signed into law, Liberty immediately filed suit against the government, claiming the law was unconstitutional. Mary McAlister, senior legal counsel with Liberty, helped draft that complaint.
“We filed our lawsuit in the western district of Virginia, here in Lynchburg,” McAlister said. “We are seeking a declaratory judgment from the court, which is asking the court to basically declare that various portions of the health care bill, and really the whole thing, are unconstitutional on various levels.”
McAlister said the most egregious violation from the bill requires people to purchase something from a private company in the form of insurance, and the bill has several other provisions that infringe upon people’s individual rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
The new legislation also calls for taxes on pharmaceutical firms and medical equipment firms. Van Mol said these higher taxes will result in less research and development because of less available money. “That means fewer breakthroughs from the nation that has led the world in breakthroughs.”
Another major problem with the health care legislation for those in the medical field is the bill’s lack of protection for a provider’s right of conscience. Right of conscience allows all health care workers to refuse to participate in objectionable procedures, such as abortion or birth control, usually for religious reasons.
This could mean an exodus of doctors from practice. An Investors Business Daily-Tipp survey found that 45% of doctors were considering quitting if the health care bill passed. A survey from the Medicus firm, quoted in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported 29% of doctors were pledging to quit if the health care bill passed, and 45% of doctors would quit if the bill included a public health care insurance option. In that same survey, 46% of primary care doctors said either they wanted to leave their practice or felt that they would be forced out of practice by the impending changes from the bill.
Wait times in Canada
Gynecological surgery: 1 to 3 months
Cataract removal: 12 to 18 weeks
Tonsillectomy: 1 to 7 months
Neurosurgery: 5 to 30 weeks
(Fraser Institute, 2009 report Paying More, Getting Less: Measuring the Sustainability of Government Health Spending in Canada)
Health Care, second opinion, read complete article in American Family Association Journal Here
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