A Health Care System Designed to Kill

Review of Scott Schara, Is the Government Legally Killing Us? (Freedom, WI: Grace’s Light Press, 2026)

It has often been said that the Covid epidemic revealed deep flaws and corruption in the medical establishment. Is the Government Legally Kill Us? by Scott Schara quickly and reliably discusses  these problems and explains their origins in policies, politics, and social trends that stretch back many decades before Covid occurred.

Other books have covered this ground, but Schara does three things no other author has done. First, he tells the story of how this corrupt system murdered his daughter, 19-year-old Grace, in 2021. It’s a shocking story, one that he tells with a father’s passion and apparent grief but also as a father who has devoted thousands of hours to studying why this crime happened and why no one was or ever will be held accountable for it.

This book is valuable for its detailed account of what happened to Grace in her final hours of life and then of the lawsuit Schara filed against the hospital where Grace died. The trial took place in 2025. The jury sided with the hospital and its staff, agreeing with their high-priced legal team that patients and their advocates have virtually no right to stop medical interventions that they oppose, even interventions intended to kill the patient.

Read that last sentence again: Patients and their advocates have virtually no right to stop medical interventions that they oppose, even interventions intended to kill the patient. Grace was killed by a lethal injection while her parents, watching on FaceTime, begged the nurses to stop what they were doing and save their daughter’s life.

The lesson is plain: No one is safe when they enter a hospital. Regardless of whether you have a family member or advocate present, a durable general medical power of attorney or a medical directives document outlining items you choose to reject, hospital staff are free to disregard your requests and knowingly administer drugs intended to shorten your life.

Why would a hospital do that?  “Once the hospital realized they couldn’t convince us to give them authority to put Grace on an unnecessary ventilator at the doctor’s discretion,” writes Schara, “it’s likely that Grace was worth more dead than alive.” Placing a patient on a ventilator could earn a hospital $300,000 per patient. Listing the cause of death as Covid produced a bonus of over $13,000.

Schara doesn’t stop here. He makes a persuasive case that hospitals deliberately causing premature deaths is not a flaw or unfortunate problem that can be fixed. It’s a feature of a system designed to kill us starting with the weakest and most vulnerable such as the unborn and handicapped, and then those with chronic diseases and the elderly, and eventually anyone deemed a “useless eater.”

Schara admits that this is difficult to believe since so many doctors, nurses, and others in the medical system appear to be kind and ethical. And yet, as he convincingly demonstrates, this is the only reasonable explanation for the behavior and policies he observed first hand as he tried first to save his daughter’s life and then to get justice for her killers. The entire system – from drug companies to government regulators, and hospital administrators to the lawyers and judges – is designed to kill and to protect those who do the killing.

I cannot do justice to Schara’s defense of this startling claim in this review, so I’ll just move on to his third and equally challenging thesis: Exposing evil and calling for “solutions,” according to Schara, are not enough and may in fact be counterproductive. Exposing evil when you are inside a rigged system serves only to sow chaos and create popular demand for false “solutions” that are still inside the system.

Criticizing the health care system can give rise to false prophets promising to make health care more affordable, make drugs safer, or ban some procedures and subsidize others. Much energy and attention is devoted to debating these “reforms.” Legislation is drafted, politicians campaign on their support or opposition to it; we are told much is at stake in this fight to “improve the healthcare system.” But at the end of the battle, often years-long, the system is still killing the weak, disabled, and elderly. This, according to Schara, is by design.

What, then, is to be done? In a chapter titled “Now What?” Schara offers a series of recommendations (I count eleven, but he does not enumerate them), starting with repentance: “Realize we’ve all participated, often unwittingly, and repent. We then walk differently, as someone not of the world. I believe warning people is part of that walk, as long as we warn them of the whole truth as opposed to only ‘exposing evil.’”

Other  recommendations include “develop a grounded Biblical worldview,” “Drop your medical insurance. Stop using pharmaceuticals. Stop going to their hospitals unless absolutely necessary” (I counted this as one recommendation) and “get comfortable with the idea of dying” since fear of death is the medical establishment’s primary weapon.  

I highly recommend this book because the author’s discoveries will shock many readers. They shocked me, until I realized my own recent encounters with doctors and hospitals confirms what Schara says. Schara provides solid advice on what we can do to save ourselves and our families from dying at the hands of a diabolical enterprise.

Pundits and scholars won’t appreciate the “Biblical worldview” that Schara brings to the topic, but this doesn’t lessen the book’s value to the remaining 99% of the public.

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Joseph Bast is the author of Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care and for many years was the publisher of Health Care News.