I assert that his logic is flawed, in that a right is self evident, and therefore cannot be provided, denied, or limited by government. It cannot be a universal right to get a medical procedure on the one hand, and morally acceptable to deny such a procedure on the basis of political will, or budgetary limitations and priorities, or on the basis of age. It cannot be a moral imperative to provide “free” healthcare to the young, but expect the elderly to resign themselves to the reality that they only have a decade or so anyway and should medicate themselves into a blissful end. It is either morally required that we treat everyone, or that everyone take the blue pill.

But the flaw that struck me the strongest was a flaw of faith. The President is a self described Christian and claims to be his brother’s keeper and his sister’s. But he is not suggesting that he personally provide for them and does not have a history of making such efforts. He is suggesting that the government collect the assets of the unwilling, with threat of imprisonment, and disseminate those assets for medical procedures for the able. Some of these procedures are immoral to some of the unwilling. He is not passing the plate, he is picking up the congregation and shaking money from them, and don’t make him come to your house!! And, he is suggesting that the government limit people’s ability to help their neighbor with their medical needs outside of the government process because it would not be “fair” that some people live with wealthier, kinder neighbors. He suggests that this be done so that he can be acting morally.

I assert, that you cannot hire someone to do a moral act for you. If ignoring people who do not get adequate healthcare is immoral, then hiring someone to “collect” money from the unwilling and use it to assure that no one is ignored, all the while blissfully ignoring the fact that the healthcare has declined for everyone is doubly immoral.

You cannot act morally by proxy. The idea that you could hire someone to pray so that you don’t have too is laughable. The idea that we could hire the government to take care of matters of individual morality is just as laughable. If it weren’t so serious, that is.

But it does not appear that this is a moral issue for the President. If I were the President, and I were fighting for morality, I would be selling the important points to the House and Senate who write the Bills, not trying to sell
it to the American people when Congress was preparing a Bill that contradicted me. It appears that the point is that the industry be moved from private hands to public hands and any argument/excuse/outcome will suffice. He is
concentrating on selling the idea to us, while leaving the details to Congress. This is not a man acting on a moral imperative.

Promising us that he intends to protect the hen house, but leaving security details to be negotiated between the roosters and the foxes (that would be the Congress and the special interest groups/lobbyists/industry representatives)
makes the hens nervous. If he were really morally motivated to protect the hens, he would not leave the details to anyone else.