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Whenever government wants to assert its power over anything it labels it “reform” to make it palatable. Recent health care reform legislation is a case in point. Big government presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds. In reality it has become the cultural bomb to wound all heels. The “heels” being that significant percentage of Americans who are looking for a “free lunch” when it comes to medical provision.

The U.S. Constitution provides no authorization for the health care reform legislation enacted by the Federal government by devious means in the Spring of 2010. Nor does the Bible grant such coercive power to the civil magistrate. This law represents government abuse of power in a direct attack on the freedom of the individual.

The Crux of Socialized Medicine

Frederic Bastiat made this abundantly clear in his little classic, “The Law,” over 100 years ago. He first points out that the first and only purpose of the civil magistrate is to establish justice by applying the law to specific situations. Under the law no man is permitted to intrude upon the life, liberty or property of any other without incurring wrath and penalty.

As a nation drifts toward socialism the law is more and more twisted for the purpose of unjustly extracting money from one social class to give to another. “Health care is a right, not a privilege,” according to Barack Obama. The satisfaction of this “right” then justifies the legalized theft of property.

“The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder…The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy.” -Frederic Bastiat

Government funded health care is a prime example of such legalized plunder, although the government may have a role in enforcing public health regulations. But when it comes to providing health care itself, the assumption is that no other societal institution can handle the task, least of all the church. God will surely judge a government that thereby perverts its fundamental responsibility to administer justice in His stead.

The Cost of Socialized Medicine

Any flaws in the private health care system will be exploited by a government seeking to expand its power beyond the requirements of simple justice. The “cure” is always worse than the disease when government gets involved, as seen in the outcomes of ObamaCare below:

* Costs are projected to exceed a trillion dollars

* It will ration health care

* It will require “end of life” counseling

* It will fund abortions with taxpayers’ money

* Free health care will be provided to illegal aliens

* It threatens to administer the death blow to an already faltering medical system

Government poses as the great protector of human health, when in reality government regulation suppresses discoveries that would optimize it. Conventional medicine slogs along groping for “the cure” to diseases that have long since been conquered by other modalities overseas. But because of restrictions, these innovations have been suppressed within our own borders.

This amounts to government suppression of freedom of choice, a form of tyranny that penalizes physicians who only desire to do what’s best for their patients. Denial of the most effective treatment is often fatal. Nonetheless, if a procedure falls outside the realm of accepted practice it is shunned no matter how effective it may be.

Medicine is a subset of science where this kind of prejudice has been operative for centuries. Only by a great upheaval are ineffective modes of theory and practice discarded. We saw this for example, in the Copernican Revolution, the Newtonian Revolution, and in Einstein’s Quantum Revolution. The latter has opened up exciting new vistas on the role that underlying energy fields play in human health.

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The existing business model of health care in this country is very good at what has been referred to as the “body & fender” component of modern medicine. However, it is dismally ignorant of what it takes to “keep the engine humming” and thus avoid disastrous system failure. This article takes a closer look at why the business model for health care stands in need of reform.

Rejects Wholistic Medicine

The American health care system looks at the human body the same way a mechanic looks at an automobile. If a part is broken just repair or replace it, no need to consider the system as a whole. This is a mechanistic, rather than a wholistic approach.

By the same token there is an emphasis on relieving symptoms while blissfully ignoring the underlying conditions that led to the symptoms. Wholistic attention to the dynamic interaction of all body systems is generally not a strong consideration.

Embraces Harmful Drug Therapy

An artificial chemical model is relied on in the treatment of disease with pharmaceutical drugs. Side-effects of drugs are notorious, including nutrient deficiency, suppression of the immune system, and upsetting the pH balance in the body, among many others. The old saw that the treatment is worse than the disease takes on a whole new meaning in many cases.

And tragically, in too many cases the side effects are fatal. The Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5) reported that physician induced illness is the third leading cause of death in the United States behind Cancer and heart disease. The article ascribed over 100,000 deaths to the negative effects of doctor administered drugs. Trust in the competency of hospital staff is too often misplaced.

Driven By Profit Motive

The American health insurance system exacerbates the problem by limiting coverage to the ineffective and expensive conventional treatments. This hampers the emergence of powerful breakthroughs that arise outside of mainstream medicine. Moreover, it forces everybody who has access to health insurance into the ineffectual system, which almost guarantees that they will develop serious degenerative disease.

The insurance system, which is supposed to protect Americans, instead shields them from the latest in medical innovation and improvement. The system encourages passivity and does little to motivate consumers to take control of their health.

Such an ineffective system can only be sustained by a billion dollar marketing campaign touting the wonders of pharmaceutical drugs, especially to doctors. The system has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and a generally diseased condition among Americans. This guarantees continued purchase of the expensive “medication” to alleviate the symptoms of the disease.

The business model has driven costs into the stratosphere and made benefits of health care unavailable to the poor and much of the middle class apart from so-called government assistance. The ineffectiveness of the existing business model is legendary and invites further government intervention to “solve” the problem with health care reform.

For more on the dangers inherent in government involvement in health care see part two in our series: 1) The Business Model, 2)The Government Model, and 3) The Biblical Model.

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