The following was written by Jordan Sekulow, the Director of International Operations for the ACLJ and the co-host of Jay Sekulow Live.

From Jay Sekulow Live! – 10-14-09

Let me go through some things that bother me about the current government health care proposals that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will be using to draft both the House and Senate versions of the bill.

1. The fines that will be imposed on American families who can’t afford health care plans.
2. The fact that you are going to lose your private health care insurance.  If you pay for private insurance, you are not going to be able to afford the premiums - the insurance companies have already said, because of the forced coverage they’re going to have to offer to people with serious pre-existing conditions, insurance premiums are going to skyrocket.  The responsible folks out there who could afford insurance are going to have to pay premiums so high that they will not be able to afford it, they will have to go into the government plan.
3. Your private insurance that you get from your employer, if you’re so lucky to get that, you’re going to lose that too, because your employer’s not going to be able to afford the premiums.  They’re going to have no incentive to give that to you when the government is offering a full plan under some kind of public option, or triggered public option, or public-private option, whatever Pelosi and Reid decide to call it.
4. Abortion is covered under every single plan.  It’s a mandate.  The Hyde Amendment does not apply.  The White House and Robert Gibbs lied again when they said that Catholic Bishops were misleading the public.  I can’t believe these folks sometimes.  They will come out and start saying that religious leaders like Catholic Bishops are misleading the public, when obviously Robert Gibbs does not understand how the Hyde Amendment works and how these health care bills work.  The Hyde Amendment only applies to the Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill.  It does not apply to the government-run health care plan that could be passed in the next two weeks.  That’s why the Hyde Amendment does not apply to these health care bills.  That makes me upset.
5. Planned Parenthood, and groups like it, being able to run health clinics in public schools and reporting directly to the Department of Health and Human Services instead of local school boards, that makes me upset too.
6. Finally, government-run “end of life counseling”, also known as death panels, is just plain frightening.  End of life decisions are tough enough on families, we’ve all been through them, and none of us need the government encouraging us about what decisions to make for incapacitated loved ones.