Outrageous Bad Medicine
9/22/2009 09:46:00 PM
Sitting where I usually do when parching through this month’s Reader’s Digest, I literally get Outraged (pun intended – pick up the digest to figure it out). The current buzz in the nation is health care and the article pushes my buttons to the point where I need to unload on the blog. So here goes my current rant on the health care issue. First understand, I believe in small government. In fact, the smaller the better. I am a free market entrepreneur and if there is truly a free market without government interference or other artificial meddling, the market will ensure the lowest price with the highest quality. I don’t care what you think about capitalism, it has been proven to work time and time again, PERIOD.
“The Administration” wants to fix our nation’s health care system. When did it get broken? I hear stories about folks who have problems with health care and getting coverage, but if I understand the situation correctly we have a system that does not allow for competition between health providers. Government rules and regulations prevent providers from offering coverage everywhere in the United States. Special interest groups have gotten legislation passed to prevent true competition in health care providers, thus artificially meddling in the market. The same theory holds true for drug companies and the research for new cures in medicine. There are numerous other issues with today’s health care system that will prove my point even further, but …
The overall proposed answer is to have the government take over the health care industry. You have got to be kidding me! Do those who propose this answer live in the same United States that I do? This brings in the article I was reading. Performing a simple Google Search about Medicare Fraud will yield you a massive result of articles where literally millions of dollars are flowing out of the system into the hands of criminals. Medicare is a government run program and it’s not working! In one article, the Miami FBI is charging eight individuals with Medicare Fraud and conspiracy to launder money in a $100 MILIION dollar scheme! The Reader’s Digest article sites other crimes and fraudulent schemes in excess of $60 BILLION dollars!
Please wake up PEOPLE! You want to turn over our health care system to the same government that gave us the U.S. Post Office that is losing $7 BILLION dollars this year! How about the same government that gave us Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, both of which have lost money and failed miserably. (Some argue that due to pressure in changing the legislation on how these organizations authorized loans, is the root cause of the current economy.) … but wait there’s more … How about the economic bail out or stimulus package? Seriously, has it worked? Do you have a job? Is it the same job you had 5 years ago or how about your friend and neighbors, they have the same jobs? Or did they move away or have to sell their home? Or worst yet, the bank foreclosed on their mortgage and they no longer are your neighbor and your house value is in the toilet!
PLEASE someone tell me ONE TIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS CREATED A PROGRAM THAT WORKED and didn’t cost the tax payers millions or billions of dollars. Every time the government gets involved in my life (from the IRS to the FAA to Homeland Security) my ass puckers so dam tight, I wish I put coal up there! I would be rich by now with diamonds! I know if you think about it, you feel the same way. How many times have you said, “Hey Honey, let’s go down to the DMV office and have a good time”. Get real!
If the government wants to fix the problem, then get the hell out of the health care system now. It makes common sense that if competition between providers is truly open and the judicial system is fixed that eliminates stupid civil law suits (create the “loser pays” laws and pass them) you can have system that provides a service at a low price that is really the best. Now please remember, health care is not a right, it’s a product. You need to decide if you want to have health care or insurance to cover you in case something happens, based on your own economic circumstances. If you want better health care in a free market system, then improve your economic status. Don’t sit on your ass and complain that the world is tough. Fix your own situation, man up and make a better life for you and your own. We as a nation are not required to provide for those who have decided to live a life as on society’s edge or to support individuals who chose to “fit” into the norm. YOU HAVE A CHOICE! Live with your choices and stop looking for handouts from those who make other choices. We live a nation that promotes capitalism and free trade; everyone who chooses to participate in that system has the same opportunity to prosper. If you don’t like it, move somewhere else.
“The Administration” wants to fix our nation’s health care system. When did it get broken? I hear stories about folks who have problems with health care and getting coverage, but if I understand the situation correctly we have a system that does not allow for competition between health providers. Government rules and regulations prevent providers from offering coverage everywhere in the United States. Special interest groups have gotten legislation passed to prevent true competition in health care providers, thus artificially meddling in the market. The same theory holds true for drug companies and the research for new cures in medicine. There are numerous other issues with today’s health care system that will prove my point even further, but …
The overall proposed answer is to have the government take over the health care industry. You have got to be kidding me! Do those who propose this answer live in the same United States that I do? This brings in the article I was reading. Performing a simple Google Search about Medicare Fraud will yield you a massive result of articles where literally millions of dollars are flowing out of the system into the hands of criminals. Medicare is a government run program and it’s not working! In one article, the Miami FBI is charging eight individuals with Medicare Fraud and conspiracy to launder money in a $100 MILIION dollar scheme! The Reader’s Digest article sites other crimes and fraudulent schemes in excess of $60 BILLION dollars!
Please wake up PEOPLE! You want to turn over our health care system to the same government that gave us the U.S. Post Office that is losing $7 BILLION dollars this year! How about the same government that gave us Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, both of which have lost money and failed miserably. (Some argue that due to pressure in changing the legislation on how these organizations authorized loans, is the root cause of the current economy.) … but wait there’s more … How about the economic bail out or stimulus package? Seriously, has it worked? Do you have a job? Is it the same job you had 5 years ago or how about your friend and neighbors, they have the same jobs? Or did they move away or have to sell their home? Or worst yet, the bank foreclosed on their mortgage and they no longer are your neighbor and your house value is in the toilet!
PLEASE someone tell me ONE TIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS CREATED A PROGRAM THAT WORKED and didn’t cost the tax payers millions or billions of dollars. Every time the government gets involved in my life (from the IRS to the FAA to Homeland Security) my ass puckers so dam tight, I wish I put coal up there! I would be rich by now with diamonds! I know if you think about it, you feel the same way. How many times have you said, “Hey Honey, let’s go down to the DMV office and have a good time”. Get real!
If the government wants to fix the problem, then get the hell out of the health care system now. It makes common sense that if competition between providers is truly open and the judicial system is fixed that eliminates stupid civil law suits (create the “loser pays” laws and pass them) you can have system that provides a service at a low price that is really the best. Now please remember, health care is not a right, it’s a product. You need to decide if you want to have health care or insurance to cover you in case something happens, based on your own economic circumstances. If you want better health care in a free market system, then improve your economic status. Don’t sit on your ass and complain that the world is tough. Fix your own situation, man up and make a better life for you and your own. We as a nation are not required to provide for those who have decided to live a life as on society’s edge or to support individuals who chose to “fit” into the norm. YOU HAVE A CHOICE! Live with your choices and stop looking for handouts from those who make other choices. We live a nation that promotes capitalism and free trade; everyone who chooses to participate in that system has the same opportunity to prosper. If you don’t like it, move somewhere else.
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