The False Witness: “We Are God’s Partner In Life And Death”

Self deification and slander belies Obamacare plea to the pulpit

Self deification and slander of opponents of socialized medicine marked the highlights of President Obama’s two teleconferences with liberal and progressive religious leaders last Wednesday.

An avowed proponent of “separation of church and state”, Mr Obama seems to have found religion in a foxhole as barrages of civil protest against Obamacare continue to rain down on the White House and congressional democrats.

Our suddenly pious president hurled the bible at opponents charging “there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness“, referring to those expressing concerns that government intervention in America’s healthcare system will inevitably lead to rationing of medical care for the elderly, handicapped and seriously ill. President Obama labeled these concerns “ludicrous” and that any talk of rationing was an “extraordinary lie.”

The “witnesses”, however, are completely grounded in truth when pointing out that every government controlled healthcare program in existence currently utilizes rationing to “control costs”. The elderly, handicapped and seriously ill require the greatest expenditure of healthcare dollars in any system. And those are exactly the areas where costs will have to be “controlled” under Obamacare. This is simply an economic fact of life under government funded healthcare. The president labeling those who oppose him on these grounds as liars is nothing less than slander.

Indeed it was the president who rendered himself the ultimate false witness during a second “private call” with a select group of rabbis. Mr Obama pointedly admitted that under Obamacare end of life decisions will indeed be placed in the hands of government as, verging on blasphemy, he arrogantly proclaimed “we are God’s partners in life and death“.

Intended to be non-publicized, the “God’s partners” boast, and other details of the call, were mistakenly posted online in several tweets by Rabbi Ralph Moline, Washington, DC. The posts, deleted within an hour, were picked up by Politico.com and Fox News. Opps!

In the first call, the president was clearly bent on blending politics and religion to his benefit as he paraphrased biblical text. “I am my brother’s keeper. I am my sister’s keeper”. The democratic party’s plan for “healthcare reform”, he claimed, is a “core ethical and moral obligation.”

No Christian will argue with the fact that God commands we care for each other. We are meant to care for those of any faith, or of no faith. But only in a manner that is truly in our brothers’ and sisters’ best interests, and is just in the eyes of God. Following, blindly, any program which points any aspect of our society in the direction of socialism does neither.

False premise
If the whole healthcare reform discussion is really just about the uninsured, Mr President and liberal/progressive members of the cloth, why not simply address that problem in itself? Why initiate a dismantling of a healthcare system that 85% of the American people are happy with and is the envy of any country suffering under the bureaucratic nightmare of government controlled healthcare?

For a simple start, no one in America can be denied medical treatment by a hospital. And the vast majority of physicians will treat uninsured patients according to their ability to pay. Our overly maligned pharmaceutical companies have programs to provide life saving medications on the same basis.

The over inflated 47 million uninsured dwindles to approximately 12 million when illegal aliens and those who can afford insurance, but choose not to carry it, are stripped out of the equation. And of the twelve million, many could afford to pay something. Why not simply taxpayer fund a plan, through an established private health insurance provider, for our uninsured brothers and sisters, with those who can, contributing such premiums as they can afford?

Throw in some legislation addressing portability of healthcare insurance, elimination of state boundaries on healthcare insurance companies in order to increase competition, medical malpractice tort reform, and healthcare savings accounts. President Obama would have a bill with virtually unanimous support throughout the country.

The simplicity of such an obvious solution belies the utterly false premise of a healthcare crisis in America and exposes Obamacare for what it is. A liberal/progressive plan, ultimately intended to make every American citizen completely dependent upon government for their medical care.

False statements
For one freely characterizing opponents as “bearing false witness”, the president must have had his own pants fireproofed before beginning his Obamacare appeal to carefully chosen members of the clergy.

“Many of you have older members of your congregations. They’re all now scared to death that somehow we’re talking about cutting Medicare benefits… That is, again, simply not true.”

Per a July 15th report by The Hill “The House bill would be paid for by roughly $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts…”

“End-of-life counseling is entirely voluntary… It gives you an option that people who can afford fancy lawyers already exercise”

The “fancy lawyer option” is simply a “living will” which can be drawn up in order to provide guidelines to loved ones in the event someone is unable to make medical decisions on their own. Living will forms can easily be obtained and do not necessarily require anything fancier than a witnessed signature.

But a world of difference resides between someone drawing up a living will and that same person being told by a government employee that further cancer treatment just doesn’t make sense financially to Uncle Sam.

And counseling, voluntary or otherwise, is not the essential question. The crux of the issue is treatment. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and a health-policy adviser in the Office of Management and Budget, has made it clear that treatment decisions, under a government funded healthcare system, will ultimately reside in the hands of government. “Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens … should not be guaranteed”.

“You’ve heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion. Not true. These are all fabrications…

This is President Obama exhibiting his mastery of Clintonese. While there is no mention of abortion in any of the pending “healthcare” reform bills, the democratic leadership has pointedly eliminated any amendments or language which would explicitly exclude abortion procedures from being considered a “benefit”. Healthcare reform”, under the Obama administration, would set up an “Advisory Committee”, chaired by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Ms Sebelius’ zeal for unrestricted abortion on demand is perhaps matched only by President Obama’s.

The Advisory Committee will be empowered to dictate what will, and what will not, be included in the Essential Benefits Package offered by the government’s health insurance plan. It is the intention of the president, the leadership of the democratic congress and Ms Sebelius to have the unrestricted abortion on demand “rights” detailed in The Freedom Of Choice Act included as part of the “Essential Benefits Package”. The president of Planned Parenthood has already said that private health insurance providers will also be expected to include the same “benefits” in their plans.

False witness, false “messiah”
According to National Center for Policy Analysis, the German breast cancer mortality rate is 52% higher than in the United States. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the United Kingdom and 457% higher in Norway than in the United States. Canadian patients wait twice as long to see a specialist for hip surgery or cancer than in the US. Over 70% of Germans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and Britons say that their systems need “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”

Yet this what the democratic party, under the leadership of Barack Obama, wants to implement in America. This is the only way, the president says, that we can fulfill our obligation to care for our uninsured brothers and sisters.

This not the truth. And when President Obama tells others “I’m going to need the help of all of you… I need you to spread the facts and speak the truth“, he should take time to reflect upon the sin of scandal- leading to others into sin. Leading others, in this case, into bearing false witness against the truth. The truth concerning the implications, for all the American people, of implementing government control over America’s healthcare system.

And we ask those members of the clergy who participated in these teleconferences to also reflect upon the fact that socialism, in any form, views religion as an enemy. Unless it can be exploited.

In proclaiming “We Are God’s Partner In Life And Death“, Barack Obama has made it clear that under Obamacare government will stand on equal footing with God Himself.

If any form of socialized medicine is established in America, it will be government that separates the wheat from the chaff in choosing out those few of our brothers and sisters who merit Ted Kennedy state of the art medical care from the swirling masses who warrant no more than a morphine prescription and fond farewell.

Whether a simple matter of one too many “Obama girls” and Obama fainters during the campaign, or a true messianic complex, Barack Obama’s view of his presidency has clearly drifted into megalomania.

God’s partner?

God forgive him. God help him. God help us.