As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance that supports corrupt conventional medicine by Mike Adams
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As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance that
supports corrupt conventional medicine
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Even if Obama's health care reform bill becomes law,
mandating that all Americans buy health insurance policies for a
failed system of "sick care", I will refuse to comply. I've read the
U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and nowhere in that document
do I find that the federal government has the power to force consumers
to purchase for-profit insurance products from private companies.
The very basis of the health care reform bill is, at its core,
unconstitutional. If this mandate is allowed to stand, it sets a
dangerous precedent for the U.S. government to require us to purchase
other products and services from whatever industries it chooses to
support. What's next? Will the government pass a law forcing us to buy
pharmaceuticals at thousands of dollars a year? Will it force us to
purchase U.S.-made automobiles in order to boost the automobile
industry? Is our economic free choice now centrally planned by our own
government operating like Communist China?
This is a serious question that Constitutional scholars will no doubt
be debating in the months ahead. But who am I kidding anyway? The U.S.
government has long since abandoned the U.S. Constitution and no has
any intention of abiding by it. Want proof? Read just one amendment:
the 10th amendment.
Check out the website www.TenthAmendmentCenter.com which carries a
highly relevant article on this matter: Health Care Nullification and
Interposition (http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com...). It paraphrases
James Madison, saying, "...state governments not only have the right
to resist unconstitutional federal acts, but that, in order to protect
liberty, they are 'duty bound to interpose' or stand between the
federal government and the people of the state."
Our right to choose has been stolen away
In addition to the very serious legal problems with government-
mandated private health insurance, this health care reform law strips
away my right to choose what type of medicine I wish to be treated
with. I don't find any credibility in the drugs-and-surgery approach
to health care. The pharmaceutical industry is riddled with scientific
fraud, quackery, corruption and criminal behavior -- much of it
documented right here on NaturalNews.com. Its drugs are approved by a
corrupt, dishonest regulatory agency (the FDA) that has abandoned
science in its quest to push more drugs onto the people. Why should I,
as a "free" American, be forced to pay money to a system that I know
to be largely based on fraud?
If I had a choice, I would prefer to buy into a system of naturopathic
care, where doctors respect the healing ability of the human body and
try to work with the patient instead of assaulting him with chemicals
and surgeries. But Obama's health care reform bill gives me no such
choice. I cannot choose to direct my money into a system of medicine
that I trust and respect. Instead, I am being forced to pay money into
a system that is morally corrupt and scientifically fraudulent. It is
a system that will only bring more harm and suffering to the people
while enhancing the profits of the greed-driven corporations behind
this medical scam.
I find it highly offensive that my own government would threaten me
with a financial penalty if I refuse to pay money to such a racket.
It's much like being forced to pay a "protection fee" to the mob. With
this health care reform decision, our government has now become the
enforcement branch of the Big Pharma crime ring, using the powers of
the IRS (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washin...) to intimidate people
into handing over their money to a gang of dishonest corporations that
have found a whole new way to take Americans for a ride.
With this bill, all Americans are essentially being held up at
gunpoint. We're being mugged on the streets by our own government, and
they're demanding not only our money (to the tune of over $15,000 a
year for a typical family) but also our lives -- because conventional
health care may very well cost you your life!
Breaking Americans down, one family at a time
The whole thing is pure highway robbery, sanctioned by the government.
The arrogant Congressmen and Senators who passed this law are,
themselves, guilty of robbing the American people blind in order to
redirect money into the pockets of some of the wealthiest corporations
in the world: the drug companies. Has anyone bothered to answer the
simple question that if tens of millions of Americans can't afford
health insurance now, how are they supposed to afford to pay the fine
for not buying any?
Forcing people to buy something they already cannot afford is a truly
idiotic idea. It's like passing a law that tries to solve the homeless
problem by making it against the law to not buy a house. The reason
they're homeless is because they can't afford a house in the first
place!
Similarly, the reason people don't have health insurance right now is
because they cannot afford to buy any. How does forcing people to buy
what they cannot afford solve anything?
This is why I'm now convinced that the whole point of the health care
reform bill is to destroy American families. It was designed from the
start, I believe, to drive more families into bankruptcy and
government dependence. It's all part of a package of new initiatives
that appear to be created specifically for the purpose of destroying
America through debt and disease.
You can reach no other conclusion, really, if you think about it. When
you start to realize about what our nation is doing with its fiat
currency, how the U.S. government has to rent debt from the private
corporation known as the Federal Reserve, and how the drug companies
are bankrupting cities, states and federal programs, you really have
to question the motives of a new law that would further worsen both
the debt and health problems now tearing our country apart.
Why would members of Congress pass a health care "reform" bill that
offered no reform and no health? Why would the Obama administration be
engaged in under-the-table, behind-closed-doors deals with the drug
companies just to make sure they continue to be able to charge
monopoly prices for their dangerous medications? Why would the IRS now
be invoked to enforce this medical racket? The answer can only be that
somewhere at the top of government, someone is diligently working to
destroy America. There's no faster way to accomplish that goal than to
keep people diseased and indebted, and this new health care reform
racket accomplishes both of those goals quite nicely.
That's why I simply refuse to pay into such a system. For me to spend
money supporting such a racket goes against every moral fiber in my
conscious existence. I would no sooner pay money to this racket than I
would donate dollars to murderers or rapists. Every dollar that goes
into this system only perpetuates the crimes against humanity
currently being committed by the pharmaceutical industry -- especially
against our nation's children.
I guess the IRS is just going to have to issue me a fine. If so, I'll
pay it under protest, but I'd rather pay a fine to the IRS than hand
over my money to the corrupt, failed system of western medicine that
pretends to offer "health care" in America today.
The collapse of an empire isn't pretty
I'll have the last laugh, of course, because this whole charade will
come tumbling down soon enough. We are watching the last days of the
Roman Empire reflected in America now. The closer any empire gets
toward collapse, the more insane its legislative initiatives become.
Sheer desperation drives its legislators to enact outrageously ill-
conceived laws that would normally never even be considered. Such is
the nature of the last desperate gasps of a crumbling empire -- an
empire that has now turned to looting its own citizens as a last-ditch
effort to keep itself afloat.
Of course, every collapsing empire does much the same. The looting of
the citizenry is, in fact, one of the more important signs that a
collapse is imminent. It has happened repeatedly throughout history,
and it usually involves a looting of the treasury and an abandonment
(or hyperinflation) of the currency. Punitive taxation of the
population -- or a mandate requiring people to part with their money
-- is nothing new.
In the big picture, what we're seeing in the United States with this
health care reform bill isn't an aberration; it's merely one milestone
in the accelerating decline of an empire that has forgotten what
freedom really means.
Mark my words, because I will out-live the American empire by a wide
margin: After its collapse, historians will look back and they will
recognize that it was disease and the broken health care system that
was the final straw. No nation that keeps its population diseased and
bankrupt can hope to have any real future, and America apparently has
no intention whatsoever to even legalize actual healing or medicinal
herbs. This nation has made a decision to outlaw healing, to outlaw
natural medicine and to pursue a corrupt, broken system of sick care
that offers no hope for the future.
It is a fateful decision for a nation that will one day serve as an
important history lesson. The title of that lesson, by the way, will
be "How America destroyed itself with debt and disease while keeping
its powerful corporations filthy rich." In the end, of course,
everybody loses. There can be no abundance, no wealth and no hope for
any nation in the long term unless it finds a way to keep its people
healthy. America is now set on a course to learn this very difficult
lesson the hard way.
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