Gov’t has no legitimate role in health care routinely. Gov’t regulation of the medical marketplace, primarily through the medical practice acts and the FDA, increase the cost of providing medical care, reduce the availability of medical resources, and markedly raise the cost, leading to a situation in which the cost of medical care is, or is perceived to be, too high for the average citizen to pay for readily. This in turn has led to the development of the gov’t paying for medical care for some, and health insurance paying for others.
The solution is to eliminate all gov’t involvement in health care. Let the patient or the patient’s representative decide who will provide his medical care, what medicines he will take. Get rid of the medical practice acts and the FDA, and watch the cost of medical care drop like a rock. The entire debate about Medicare, Medicaid, the cost of insurance, etc, will become a completely moot point.
