Last night I read the entirety of four proposals on health care reform: The most current one put forth by President Obama, the two being considered in the House and Senate respectively, and an outline of the one that will be presented by the Republican opposition today. The idea of extending health care to those who can’t afford it is a nobel one, but it must be done with the highest moral and ethical principles to guide it. So far, what is being seriously considered falls down on both points. It is neither moral or ethical to place literal life and death decisions into the hands of an impersonal, uncaring and unaccountable government bureaucracy. The history on that in our own country and in nations around the world is appalling. (Think of the cruel forced sterilization of the poor in Oklahoma and the gruesome Tuskeegee syphilis experiments on black airmen.)

Ask yourself if you trust “the government” to care for a newborn with birth defects, a severely brain-injured loved one or an elderly parent or grandparent. I know, many private insurers are no better, but if they aren’t, you have legal or at least public relations options for punishing them. Not so with the government. In fact, their involvement with health care caries the coercive power of the law. So, the question becomes, Who will make decisions about which health care insurers and which specific packages will be included in the menu of choices available to people? That will be delegated to a nameless group of career bureaucrats responding to political pressure from the top. That can’t be any better than the structure in place now–and my be far worse.

Your prayers and your voice need to be heard TODAY. Please take time to pray and take time to call your member of Congress and US senators. If you fail to act now, you can’t complain about what you get in the future. God help us and have mercy on our nation!

More to follow.

Rob +

Early this morning I went over to the US Capitol to pray and witness Truth to senators as they cast their Christmas Eve surprise on first-ever tax-payer funded abortion in so-called “health care.” I was as heartsick as you probably are, but leading pro-life senator and outstanding Christian brother, Sam Brownback of Kansas, had a hopeful message for you and me. I captured it on my cell phone and share it with you below as my CHRISTmas gift to you. Watch the Senator’s comments, then pray and work and work and pray! CHRISTmas is all about hope in the face of catastrophe. As children were slaughtered throughout the Holy Land by a blood-thirsty tyrant, God saved the world through an infant born in a manger.

“And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger . . .” (Luke 2:9 – 12)

The US Senate can no more take away this great sign of hope than Herod could so long ago. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.”

Watch my conversation with Sen. Brownback here.

Merry CHRISTmas to you and all yours!

Rob +