If You Think That Universal Health Care Will Truly Be Universal Look at THIS:

No residency for Down syndrome boy
Australia cites taxpayer burden
By The Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities.
But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller's application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the "health requirement" and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.

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Moeller's temporary work visa is valid until 2010, but his application for permanent residence was rejected this week.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship notice said: "This is not discrimination. A disability in itself is not grounds for failing the health requirement -- it is a question of the cost implications to the community."

On it's webside, Australia's universl heath care system, called Medicare Australia says "Delivering health and payment programs to Australians". But only if you won't cost us much.

The irony is the reason Dr. Moeller came to Australia, because of a physician shortage. Maybe their health care system has something to do with that shortage?

The chilling part is the line "Lukas does not meet the "health requirement" and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services." Especially when combined with this 1: "it is a question of the cost implications to the community."

The next step will be required abortions for Down Syndrome babies. & others with costly genetic illnesses. Then reduced medical care for seniors, followed by forced euthenasia for seniors with health problems so that they "won't be a burden". Then who will be next, diabetics? the blind? cancer patients? those with MD or MS?

This is what the "culture of death" is offering under the guise of universal health care.

It can't happen here? Yes it can & it will. & it is. When you devalue life at the start, soon you devalue it everywhere else. & the history of our country since 1973 proves that. We are far along on the slippery slope that was warned about all those years ago.

40 years ago Pope Paul VI warned us of the dire consequences of birth control in Humanae Vitae . He has been proven right in the years since.

13 years ago Pope John Paul, writing in Evangelium Vitae , warned us of what lies ahead if we keep on the path we are on now. We need to heed his call to build the "Culture of Life" or we will soon be even more of a "culture of death" than we are now.