Rationing Health Care is About Power, not Equality

American Thinker takes on Obama's desire to control people by controlling their health care:

If President Obama is to be believed, health care is a dwindling, finite resource that must be rationed. According to Obama, quality health care for some deprives the less fortunate of quality care. The only good health care in Obama's worldview is that which is "redistributional."

So says Dr. Donald Berwick, Obama's new health care czar, appointed to oversee the distribution of $800 billion worth of benefits payments. This mostly means denying life-extending treatment to seniors, in practice. Of course, Obama lacks the constitutional authority to appoint an individual with this kind of authority without Senate confirmation, but using the "recess appointment" ruse, shocking even Democrat senators, Berwick now holds vast power over who gets what medical treatment.

But no matter. Obama has decided. Illegality has not stopped other contentious Obama appointments. Obama does what he wants, when he wants, regardless of his sworn oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. The drilling ban serves as a perfect example of Obama's lawless mindset. After two court rulings voided the economically destructive ban, Obama announced that he would impose the ban anyway, separation of powers notwithstanding.

The Obama redistribution claptrap is based on a false notion, i.e. that one man's gain is another man's loss. But in the ObamaCare paradigm, lives are at stake, so his phrase would read, "One man's life is another man's loss." This idea is either sheer stupidity or overt deception, since no one is denied health care in this country, with or without the ability to pay.

If the wealthy pay for select physicians instead of waiting in line for a general practitioner, those waiting in line are not deprived of health care. The method of delivery is merely different. And what if the wealthy receive better care? If they choose to pay for premium care at greater cost, is it not their prerogative to do so? Is this not America, where hard work and talent yield a bigger slice of pie? When did spending hard-earned money become a federal offense?

And yet, Obama would have Americans believe that some must perish so that the noble poor can live. Who is stopping the poor from living? It is not the wealthy. In fact, hospitals are filled with illegal immigrants unable to even barter for the services American hospitals provide. Then why the selective assault on human life? As with all of Obama's policies, the rationale is control. Vulnerable Americans will be unlikely to challenge Obama if their medical treatment is at stake. This is about political control through medical means.

The article goes on to describe the latest Obama appointee, the guy who will be in charge of determining whether or not you get health care. He's a nut, pure and simple, which means he fits right in to the Obama administration.