13 vivo and 46 jharp:
With the utmost respect, do you really believe that a beneficient govenment is the solution to any problem, much less health care? This problem did NOT exist prior to 1970 And the people didn’t make this problem: neither did the free market.
The government made this problem:
—unrestricted immigration dumped a deluge of uninsured illegals on hospitals obliged by law to serve all uninsured in an emergency: this spiked the cost of health care in every community. One florida Hospital was recently reported to have cared for a penniless illegal for three years at $1.3 million per year! His relatives from Guatamala were perfectly happy to let this continue. They were outraged when he was sent back to Guatamala–and so was the US legal system that decided later that no further transfers of that type would be permitted.
—Medicaid spurred the reckless consumption of healthcare with no provision to provide for the doctors needed: many of those patients are repeat abusers of the medical sytem: in one Texas Country, 10 people, all transients and alcoholics allowed by the legal system to roam free, do not work and get welfare and free medical acre (but not required to stay sober, work or report to a sober house) generated 2700 911 calls for emergency care: in Santa Monica, drug addicts, alcoholics and homeless 9none of whom are required to work or stay clean) account for fully 2/3 of all paramedic responses. Is it any wonder our trauma centers close? That the cost of health care has spiked?
—Medicare and medicaid now cover viagra and all sorts of other non-essential drugs at great cost to everyone else–and which dstorts the dollars spent, shifting them to medications like viagra instead of patient care.
having made the problem, it wants to fix it by expanding the care to more people and spreading the bill again-until it has to be paid.
Nor is the government a solution: we all know it will expand, be ineffective and never go away. Why do I think that? gee, let me think:
—In 1913 we were told the income tax of less than 1% was temporary.
—In 1964 that seat belts were mandated so people may have them available: but in no sense was their use ever to be mandatory.
—on 9-11 neither the CIA not the FBI had any clue as to what was happening and no one was ever fired for letting 9-11 happen.
–during Katrina, no one with the feds or the state has any idea what was happening or what to do–WalMart did though.
Don’t you feel even a little hestitant about signing on to this huge power grab?
