Besides the abortion issue, the Health Care law is an economic DISASTER which will cause havoc. For a great article on why, read about the disaster that awaits us in Health Care forshadowed by what has happened in New York-
Health Care Reform – Welcome to NY America:
Back when the state instituted the reforms about 752,000 residents were buying health insurance directly from insurance companies in the individual market. But premiums immediately started to soar, and as residents realized they could purchase insurance at any time, even after they got sick, New York’s individual health insurance market disappeared, shrinking by 95 percent all the way down to a mere 34,000 individuals.
The scary thing for me is that were it not forthe pro-life issue, the Bishops would have been all on board with the so called “refom”. In their efforts to appear compassionate, they have encouraged government solutions that show a destructive disregard of the economic realities of the marketplace; destroying the free market engine that is most able to help the most people at the least cost. Maybe the acceptance of federal money by Catholic Hospitals and organizations such as Catholic Charities have made these institutions just a couple more government dependents who naturually sees government as the only solution when things turn sour. But the simplest and least destructive solution to helping the poor is not controlling prices and regulating to death the insurance industry, but providing low cost care through voluntary charitable organizations – a role that the Church used to fulfill quite willingly before the decimation of the convents and the Catholic Hospitals’ acceptance of federal money.