ObamaCare is only the worst of government elites programs to come our way to take control from the individual placing it in the hands of those that believe they are the smartest in the room and deserve the power to do all things to others and for others.
ObamaCare will ensure individual freedom will be crushed and dependency the new norm. Know then to as a result, 'poverty will come on us like a thief in the night'.
How Medical Benefits Used to Work
Source: Greg Scandlen, "Safe Haven: How Mutual Aid Can Protect Families in Times of Trouble," Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, August 2014; Greg Scandlen, "How We Once Provided Medical Benefits," NCPA Health Policy Blog, August 19, 2014.
August 25, 2014
In a paper published by the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, Greg Scandlen explains how medical care has changed over history in both the United States and Britain.
Historically, medical care in communities in Britain was provided by mutual aid organizations, who cooperated to provide benefits for their members. These groups dominated the social welfare scene in nineteenth-century. Similar fraternal aid societies developed in the United States, first in the colonies and into the twentieth century. These groups emphasized virtues of thrift and self-reliance, and they established orphanages, hospitals, homes and schools. Their biggest activity was providing life insurance, though others focused on providing medical benefits to their members.
What happened? The Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century gave rise to new ideas of the proper role of government; Progressives saw the government, not the individual, as the answer to society's problems. As Scandlen writes on the NCPA's Health Policy Blog, "The idea that common workmen could provide for their own needs was offensive to those who thought only an educated elite could order the affairs of society." The values of mutual aid and self-help, Scandlen explains, were "replaced with newer virtues of charity and service."
Legal and policy developments contributed to the decline of these societies:
Historically, medical care in communities in Britain was provided by mutual aid organizations, who cooperated to provide benefits for their members. These groups dominated the social welfare scene in nineteenth-century. Similar fraternal aid societies developed in the United States, first in the colonies and into the twentieth century. These groups emphasized virtues of thrift and self-reliance, and they established orphanages, hospitals, homes and schools. Their biggest activity was providing life insurance, though others focused on providing medical benefits to their members.
What happened? The Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century gave rise to new ideas of the proper role of government; Progressives saw the government, not the individual, as the answer to society's problems. As Scandlen writes on the NCPA's Health Policy Blog, "The idea that common workmen could provide for their own needs was offensive to those who thought only an educated elite could order the affairs of society." The values of mutual aid and self-help, Scandlen explains, were "replaced with newer virtues of charity and service."
Legal and policy developments contributed to the decline of these societies:
- Fraternal aid groups were gradually replaced as workers' compensation laws came into being and insurance regulators began regulating their life insurance benefits.
- Additionally, as employer-sponsored insurance rose in popularity (and gained preferential tax treatment), mutual aid group members were placed at a financial disadvantage.
- As the state began to offer more and more welfare benefits, the services provided by these organizations became less and less relevant.
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