Health Care CRISIS
Ahhhhhhh! It’s the end of the world! The sky is falling! And algore has nothing to do with it! This one is so bad! Health care spending will increase! Ahhhhhhh!
Oh, but did you happen to read these articles and listen to the talking heads carefully? Do you see exactly WHY health care spending will increase? Yes, you guessed it — government. The reason health care is expensive in the first place, and THE reason the costs will skyrocket IS government — literally nothing else can be blamed. And so, predictably, since government caused the problem, government will claim they can “solve” the problem. Like every other problem, they’re simply wrong.
One of the largest reasons health care spending will increase is because government will pay. When someone else pays for a service, and there is no direct cost to the end user, the demand will skyrocket. You don’t have to like it or agree with it, that’s a fact. Don’t believe me? Try this one:
If you could get any food you wanted and government would pay for it, how much more food would you buy? Might you grab and extra six-pack before heading home? Maybe you’d go ahead and buy that porterhouse, even if you knew you couldn’t finish it — after all, you’re not paying for it. Maybe you’d start buying the brand-name cereal instead of the Wal-mart brand because it’s all the same to you. When government, via ANY program (medicare, medicaid, Hillarycare) pays for the service, PEOPLE USE MORE.
“Oh, you’re so heartless,” I hear you say. No, I’m being realistic and based on freedom. You do NOT have a right to my labor, period. As soon as you accept that you have a right to my labor, then all semblance of freedom is completely gone. I am now a slave. And it doesn’t matter that it’s not you, personally, that’s using the whip on me. Your agents, government, are forcing me, against my will, to work for you. That’s wrong.
You simply cannot have a “right” to something that requires labor from someone else — as healthcare does. When you say that everyone has a right to healthcare, you are actually saying that government has the right to put people in slavery to work for government, whether they want to work or not. AND you are creating a very limited supply and a massive demand — it fails every single time it’s tried.
Want to fix health care? Get government out of the way. Government shouldn’t provide healthcare for any one, any time, at any place. It’s unconstitutional, morally wrong, and practically impossible. Will that hurt some people? I bet it would hurt less people than socialized government medicine — a LOT less. If government were out of the way, and the legal system were hindered, costs would drop like an elephant from a bamboo tree.
This is nothing more than a crisis created by, for, and about government. I bet the big-government people (99% of everyone in Washington) are having parties to celebrate this one. They are quite happy because they can and will use this “news” to create bigger and more controlling government. Goodbye freedom, we hardly knew ya.
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Here’s one reason health care costs are going to rise…if they push this bill through.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080226/D8V2817O0.html
Oh, that can’t be. Government will SAVE us from problems. Government won’t make things expensive, government will make things FREE. Isn’t government wonderful?
Just ask doctors. They’ll tell you that government cheapens health care. The docs don’t gain anything from participating in Medicare/Caid programs; in fact they get paid squat for their services. It’s why we have a shortage of primary care MD’s and that’s only going to get worse if the feds get more involved.
THEN what will they do? not enough docs…hmm..sounds like Canada and Germany.
What will most certainly happen here is what happened in England — there will be an underground. If you’re a crappy doctor, you’ll work for the government and the average Joe will go to you. If you’re a competent doctor, you’ll work for yourself and people will pay cash, driving a further wedge between those who work and those who don’t (aka rich and poor) — which is a primary goal of Democrats.