The far Left has a new label. A self-coined title. They now refer to themselves as Progressives. One of their pet projects is to ensure that women's reproductive health care is available to all women. The two fundamental components to reproductive healthcare - according to Progressives - are contraception (including abortifacient drugs) and abortion, even though there is nothing about abortion that promotes health or health care. Furthermore, they plan to add forty million people to the system, at the expense of health care for senior citizens. Let's face it, if we are to keep health care costs down while adding forty million more people into the system, there will be rationing. The only place where the rationing might come close to covering the tab of 40 million new insured patients is if we cut back significantly on the services/care for the elderly. Twenty-somethings, as a whole, don't rack up high health care bills. Nor do thirty-somethings. Occasionally, forty- and fifty-somethings require expensive procedures and treatment. But after sixty, the cost goes way up. And it keeps going up and up from there. Sure, doing a nip and tuck on elderly care is sure to yield tremendous savings. But that's not progress. Not for babies and not for seniors.
Michael D. O'Brien summed up the problem when he crafted a dialogue in his book Father Elijah, attributing these words to his character bearing the same name:
Pride blinds us to our own blindness,” he said, “and there is no pride sweeter to the taste, and so enslaving, as the illusion of superior knowledge. This is especially true when one has a great deal invested emotionally in one’s own theory. --Father Elijah
Let's help the uninsured so that they have access to medical care, but not if the tab must be paid at the expense of the unborn and the aged. Redirect the stimulus money to the uninsured, raise taxes if you must, but protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death.
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