Obamacare's 'Free Lunch' Arrives

Obamacare’s ‘Free Lunch” Arrives
The relentless pursuit of the truth – Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Preface: Let’s have every newspaper in the nation come out with this kind of editorial which was published in the Orange County Register, Orange County, California. (Friday, Feb. 10, 2012).

Mandatory coverage for contraception, abortifacients enrages religious groups:

Thomas Jefferson said: “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

The third president wasn’t Catholic and, arguably, probably not Christian. But he understood that for the government to compel people to pay for something they find morally repugnant is “sinful and tyrannical.” The 44th president [Barack Hussein Obama] clearly thinks otherwise.

Catholic hospitals and charities are discovering the harm inherent in President Barack Obama’s intrusive health care law. They are joined by many others, including, Lutheran, Jewish and Evangelical Christian groups, vehemently protesting mandates that employers must provide contraceptive and abortifacient coverage [including morning after pill], even when it violates their constitutionally protected religious beliefs. We join their complaint.

President Obama has elevated his vision of “enormous health benefits’ for women by mandating those services, despite the blatant violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of free exercise of religion.

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio characterized the mandate as an assault on “the constitutional right of religious expression,” while Republican House Speaker John Boehner, like Mr. Rubio, a Catholic, concurred and vowed to stop the regulation. Even “a handful of high-prolife Catholic Democrats are bailing on the president and joining the GOP chorus,” Politico reported.

Unfortunately, many, including Catholic organizations, paved the way for such government intrusion with years of support for the ever-expanding role of Washington in private matters under the guise of doing good. Now they are learning at what cost. Obamacare’s virtually open-ended regulatory scheme gives government the power to dictate whatever the government deems necessary.

For decades, the entitlement-minded willingly accepted government-bestowed benefits in return for giving up freedoms… such as tax-payer-subsidized pharmaceutical drugs, in return for voluntary compliance with rules determined by the government on eligibility, cost and coverage. If you want federal benefits you must do what the government demands…

“We have known for a long time where Obamacare’s implementation was heading,” said Matthew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel Action, a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to advocating religious freedom. Now Obamacare has reached the ultimate phase of government intrusion.

Voluntary compliance is not an option… You will be forced to pay for even what many abhor.

George H. Kubeck - kill Obamacare with your vote on Nov. 6, 2012