Should we watch a man die at the entrance of a hospital unattended?

in #news7 years ago

Today the Trinidad and Tobago government is faced with the question of providing health benefits for foreigners who get sick or potentially leaving them unattended while visiting our nation. Our hospital's, health centers are available to any National. The question pulls at the heart because of a recent situation where a foreigner died and wasn't treated. At first glance, it seems right to do the human thing and treat the individual. However, when one steps back and explores the impact of passing such laws upon the private service sector we call health care. We begin to grasp it may not be as good of an idea as our emotions tell us.
First off It's easy to declare government should handle it. Yet the reality is the government doesn't have any money other than what we the people give.So what happens when such a law is passed, demands people who work in hospitals provide a service to someone who can't pay for it. Producing a form of slavery. Second, because the government has no money and the proper thing to pay the doctors.The public is forced to pay for it. Producing another form of slavery, taxes upon the citizens of Trinidad who if they don't pay up can loose lands and wealth. We can see in history, the power to tax is the power to enslave. While our hearts go out to such an individual, we must never forget history.
Where government moved toward socialism, dictatorship, and communism meeting the needs of the nation through high tax and people enslaved to such creeds. There are millions who have suffered under such regimes and who's family lineages still suffer today in poverty because of such notions.
If Charity is to come, it must come from the civility the people to serve Never from the demands of those in power to rule over a people. A solution that other nations utilize is that the religious base hospitals offer charity. They doing this out of goodwill, not compulsion or fear of going to jail or being fined. Other people are offered the privileges of donating to the religious based hospitals to help share the burdens of those less fortunate. This way you have people giving from their hearts, not bitterly and begrudgingly. This does not have to be limited to Christian organizations, any health -based organization can duplicate their charitable giving without government demands.
I say this in the most sincere, sensitive and gentle way I can, so people aren't moved by emotion but rather through deep reflection. May the reader consider and weigh the dangerous consequences of the government being charitable with your service and your wealth and take every effort to oppose this. Freedom is too valuable to ever let it be taken away and the cost often too high to try and redeem it.

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