House Minority Leader John Boehner, a Republican, and his colleague, Thaddeus McCotter, also issued a statement containing dire warnings about certain provisions of the bill , saying it "may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia."
They say, "Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on ‘the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration’ and other end of life treatments,'" the pair say. That section "may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign."
"This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law. At a minimum this legislative language deserves a full and open public debate – the sort of debate that is impossible to have under the politically-driven deadlines Democratic leaders have arbitrarily set for enactment of a health care bill," they state.
Read this below and follow the first link. The, please get your church to pray for God to protect America from what seems to be the potential for great evil through this legislation. Then, contact your Congressman and let him know you do not support this billas writtne and pray for our nation now! Congress is poised to pass President Obama's National Health Care Bill. Go here to get contact info for your federal lawmakers: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt
Rick Joyner, National Health Scare
"When I read the brief on what was contained in the National Health Care bill that is now being presented before Congress, I could not believe I was reading something that was actually being considered in the United States of America. This is not about money or government mismanagement...this is about euthanasia, the power to determine who lives or dies in America."
If you want to do more research, look at this New York Post Article about the leading health advisor for this terrible bill.
His name is Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel--brother of Obama's Chief of Staff. He is on record stating that he favors giving the elderly much less medical care to save money.
"Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).
In the medical journal, The Lancet, Dr. Emanuel co-wrote, " We recommend an alternative system---the complete lives system---which prioritizes younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles.(E J Emanuel MD)
Dr. Emanuel has even researched the potential savings of euthanasia in America in this article in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/full/339/3/167
This article from The Canadian Free Press may also have some valid points on this critical discussion, although it has a very strong editorial slant that I do not endorse: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13242
Friends, we may in the hot dog-days of August, but this is no time to fall asleep at the wheel! I wrote earlier in Partners that God seemed to calling His people in America to prayer this summer. This bill may be why.
If the Church stays silent, much evil could come into America if this bill passes in its present form. All evil needs to flourish is the silence and inaction of God's people.
It is not against the law for pastors and churches to take a stand on a proposed piece of legislation!!!!
I'd say it is our duty as Christians to warn people about evil:
- Eph 5:11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
- Eze 33:6 "But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman's hand."
Go here to get contact info for your federal lawmakers: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt
More than that, PRAY FOR:
- GOD TO STOP THIS BILL AS WRITTEN. THIS BILL DESERVES A LONGER DISCUSSION OF ALL ISSUES INVLOVED. THE LIVES AND FUTURES OF MILLIONS OF OLDER AMERICANS ( INCLUDING AGING VETERANS WHO FOUGHT FOR AMERICA) AND DISABLED AMERICANS MAY BE AT STAKE.
- For God to give doctors, hospitals and our government leaders wisdom in reforming our health care.
Bob Fox
Editor
