Health Care

I'm tired of people saying that because I am a Christian I should support the national health care plan. As a Christian I have an obligation to care for the poor, widowed, outcast, and generally downtrodden groups. What I do not have is an obligation to do is insist that government do my job for me. If I see someone in need it is my job to help them, not get the government to steal money from the rich (who already bear more than their "fair share") and do my job. If churches and charities have neglected their jobs, the solution is to light a fire under them and get them to do those jobs.

I understand why people say that government plan is taking care of those groups so I should just support it. Just because something is easy, letting government take over, does not mean it is right. Is it much easier to support this plan (or any other national health care plan or welfare program) and say that I have done my part, fulfilled my moral obligation? Yes. However, the right thing to do is give money and other support to churches that fill this need and where they do not exist, to start them. That is much harder and requires taking money out of my pocket and giving it away. (Let's just forget that national health care will be funded by the government forcibly taking money from me, people seem to forget that).

I have to go to work so I've left my arguments about the constitutionality of these types of programs for another day.