When consumers perceive health care to be “free,” they use more medical services and create an overwhelming demand for them – which will eventually exceed supply.
Now that Obama has been re-elected and Democrats control the Senate, Republicans no longer have the chance to repeal Obamacare.
But all is not lost. There’s still an opportunity for America to stop this disaster by choking the life out of the federal monstrosity. Obama’s signature legislative achievement is likely headed back to the Supreme Court.
Just last week, the High Court ordered a lower federal court to take up a lawsuit by the patriots at Liberty University, who claim Congress violated the college’s religious freedoms by forcing it to provide federally mandated insurance and requiring payment for abortion-related services.
Liberty University also argues that the individual mandate is unconstitutional because it infringes on the free exercise of religion by forcing citizens to fund abortion.
“God created human life. Its sanctity and dignity are protected by God,” said Mathew Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel who represents Liberty University in the case. “We have no right to take innocent human lives, and certainly we cannot be forced to fund the taking of innocent life – basically forced to fund murder. We can’t do that. That’s a line that we simply cannot cross.”
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