Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right
“The government will be paying the bills, forcing doctors and hospitals to dance more and more to the government’s tune. Having to subject our health to this bureaucratic insanity and mismanagement is possibly the biggest danger we face. The great irony is that in turning the good of healthcare into a right, your life and liberty are put in jeopardy…”
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*** Scenario One: IF we must have healthcare reform there is a better way to do it besides the government. I have Medicare so the easy solution would be to extend it as is to everyone who wants it. Insurance companies could still sell Medigap insurance to cover the differences. That would lower insurance premiums considerably and raise taxes a lot less than what is currently being considered.
**** Scenario Two: IF we must have healthcare reform why not have those who have the expertise design it? Few people in Congress have any idea about medical care. Only a couple of them are Doctors and None are involved in the insurance industry other than taking their political donations.
Insurance companies have all the actuary tables. They have the risk factors down to a science. They have the cost for care in their computers. They know all the troubles and tribulations of every ailment and disease. They would be best equipped to come up with a universal health plan without any pie-in-the-sky cost for the insurance as we are getting from the politicians.
They could put it on the market and stay in business. With the current plan being pushed they would soon be out of business and a million or so more people would be unemployed. It would have to be reasonable and adjusted to income level. I don’t believe it should be absolutely free to anyone but very cheap for the poor. That would be available to all takers and would keep the government out of our personal business. I don’t know of much more personal than our relationship with our doctors.
I, for one, don’t think my health issues are any of the government’s business. Private enterprise will kick the stuffing out of government run programs every time. All it takes is an enterprising Insurance Company to come up with the plan. They would make a lot more money than spending trillions fighting the government take-over of their business.
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Comments: 26
If you want to say it's expensive, we all can agree on that but then comes the rub. Many will not agree on why it's expensive. It is much easier to blame the private sector rather than realize it's reacting to the government mandates and meddling. The problem remains government interference at all levels of the game.
Simply allowing those of us between 62 and 65 who are eligible for social security but not for medicare and may have physical problems making retirement an option to partake would not only be good for these individuals but would open up thousands of jobs.
It could be that Obama and the Dems know this huge mess is scaring people enough that they'd breathe sighs of relief for a lesser but still expensive program. That would allow Obama to cry victory but not so quickly destroy what remains of fiscal sanity in DC...
You may need a car but you want to look around and pick the best one, not necessarly the one the salesman is trying to pressure you into buying.
Even before that, you'll need to address the frivolous lawsuits because you'll have the red tape right back if you do not. These lawsuits cause the most damage because they don't have any ground behind them, judges just let people who refuse to listen then charge someone else for their own lax of responsibility to pay. Then that creates red tape, and increases sosts to you and me because of it.
To reduce the problem, you would have to address every issue in order of it's own importance, and frivolous lawsuits are one of, if not the top issue.
Free people can contract for services, but when the government intervenes to set the terms of a transaction, both lose their freedom. For example, when the government sets (not negotiates ... sets) the prices it will pay for a physician's services under Medicare, the physician loses the freedom to charge a reasonable price for his/her services. But, the patient also loses the right to a reasonable amount of time with the physician because he/she must see a large number of patients to cover expenses at the price set by the government.
I used to be free to select my physician based on what he/she charged, among other things. My physician used to be free to charge or not charge patients based on their ability to pay. Both lost their rights when the government implemented Medicare and health care has never been the same since.
I think we should do what the Col. and I have done; align ourselves with like-minded people, follow those who have integrity and have been totally dedicated to working towards things which will lead us in the right direction. That direction would be back to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
They speak the truth, thus the message is always the same, no double-speak. They know big govt. is not better, just more bureaucracy which breeds more bureaucracy.
Less mandates, more freedom; free market to let the best rise to the top, and the sub-standard go by the wayside. Doctor to patient w/o govt. interference. When govt. mandated employers supply insurance coverage, then employees did not work healthcare out for themselves - they depended on someone else paying for most, if not all of it - entitlement.
Paid sick leave - entitlement; paid vacations - entitlement; paid personal days - entitlement. and on and on. People don't understand the difference between a right and being responsible.
Not sure what will stop this raging fire, but enough of us with fire extinguishers can sure give it a heck of a try.