When civil government determines to do things not appointed for it by God and arrogates to itself illegitimate power to do them, evil unintended consequences always follow. We are often told that one "cannot fight City Hall". What is more profoundly and universally true is that one cannot fight the Living God.
Human cultures and societies either submit to His wise and life-giving stipulations or they drown in a sea of their own folly. Through bitter experience, arrogant rebellious cultures are made to learn that good intentions count for nothing when disobedience to God is in the air. The sting is always in the unintended consequences. However, the evil consequences of naive, well meant, yet disobendient actions by civil governments are merely untintended by men; God, however, intends them and brings them to pass, so as to chasten and punish the wicked.
Today's example of punishing unintended consequences is President Obama's attempt to exert government control over the health sector in the United States. We quote from Patterico:
Obama — Health care benefits beginning:
The most critical and controversial parts of the recently passed health care reform bill won’t take effect for more than three and half years, but President Barack Obama wants Americans to know that the historic legislation is already spurring positive changes in the insurance business.
“While it will take some time to fully implement this law, reform is already delivering real benefits to millions of Americans,” Obama said in his weekly radio and video address out Saturday morning. “Already, we are seeing a health care system that holds insurance companies more accountable and gives consumers more control.”
AT&T (via Doug Ross) — Health care benefits ending?:
Someone inside AT&T leaked an internal Powerpoint presentation that measured the financial impact of DemCare.
AT&T estimates that it can save upwards of $4 billion annually by dropping health care coverage and paying the penalty tax instead.
They’d be foolish to keep their health care benefits and, in fact, shareholders should demand the company capture that income and return it in the form of increased dividends and R&D.
The Administration may have its thumb on the insurance companies but it can’t control those Unintended Consequences.
The Democrat's health law intended to ensure that the costs of health insurance could be controlled and that it could be extended to every US citizen. The civil government has no direction or mandate from God even to consider such a thing. The US federal government has broken covenant with God and with its people. The outcome: health insurance coverage will shrink drastically as companies stop providing health insurance for their employees.
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