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Healthcare is not a “right”!
My congressman said we have the right to healthcare. This cannot be so. Healthcare is a commodity, not a right. Freedom to care for our health is a right, and the government has already been denying us that. Excessive regulation and bureaucracy have limited our options for years. (Google “Codex Alimentarius” for the plan to take away our vitamins and supplements.) Under the new healthcare bill, personal choice and individual liberty will be extinguished, and we’ll pay heavily for it.
Every commodity has a limited supply. The free market is the most efficient, cost-effective and productive means of distributing a commodity. We have not enjoyed free-market access to healthcare in America. Our current system is one of business-government partnership. Bureaucratized insurance companies monopolize the market. We can’t shop for our treatment as we would for a car. An MRI can cost between $400 and $4,000, but we’ll never know.
The new healthcare plan is not about helping us choose and purchase the healthcare we want. It is not about allowing us to find and purchase the best healthcare available. It is about government choosing and distributing as IT sees fit. This is unconstitutional. Unconstitutional means illegal. It also means anti-freedom. Dr. Ezekeil Emanuel, Obama’s advisor, envisions a “whole life system” where treatment decisions are made by mathematical calculations of an individual patient’s life expectancy and “social usefulness.” This is not OK. The Constitution PROHIBITS our government from evaluating the worth of an individual. To favor one over another is not only unconstitutional, it is immoral.
60 % of American households receive more benefits and services from the government, than the money value they pay in taxes. This figure will increase tremendously after the initiation of Obamacare. Healthcare comprises about 17% of the US economy. Dumping that amount into Federal hands puts a full 50% of US production under their control! That is the point, entirely. The healthcare discussion has never been about how to make more of us healthier; it is about the future of our country. Proponents of Obamacare believe in the Progressive philosophy of nanny-government with entitlements for everyone.
There are others who believe that each man knows best how to spend his own money and to make his own personal decisions, with healthcare near the top of any such list. A person of this (sound) mindset might suggest the following improvements to our way of distributing medical care:
1. Healthcare expenses should be tax deductible, across the board.
2. High-risk insurance pools would ensure that coverage is available to those with pre-existing conditions…and that the cost of coverage for non-high risk individuals can be kept down.
3. Unlock the insurance monopolies. Let us buy insurance from out of state.
4. Providers must be free to negotiate prices and coverages. Consumers must be free to see all their options.
5. Government must not mandate ANYTHING in such personal matters. Mandates are not freedom.
Tags: health, Health Care, obamacare
You should also point out that the ‘nanny state’ in question leads to bankruptcy and then, civil unrest….case in point Greece…when the ‘nanny’ tries to cut the “kids” allowance….
This is where we are headed???…NOT ON MY WATCH!!!…
Well Linda you’re right–as it exists now, healthcare in this country is a commodity, and as you say, “every commodity has a limited supply.” So apparently, it’s ok with you that only a limited number of people have access to this “commodity”. Many of us however, believe that affordable, quality healthcare should be a “right” that all of us have access to.
Your argument that free market principles with no government oversight will somehow solve our healthcare problems is simply absurd. Especially regarding those with preexisting conditions, you state that “high-risk insurance pools would ensure that coverage is available.”
Linda, please explain to me how–without any government mandate–these high-risk pools would be created in the first place? And tell me what insurance company in the free market would bother competing for the business of someone (with a preexisting condition) who is only going to cost them money?
It is obvious that if the government does not “mandate in such personal matters”, there will be many people without access to your so-called free market healthcare.
The fact that you are running for Congress makes your simplistic view of our healthcare issues not only naive, but irresponsible.
M Davies,
Food is also a commodity, should we rely on the government to feed us also? Yes Some do, but many of us grow our own. That is our right until gov. takes it from us just as they are trying to do to insurance companies. Did you know that is how insurance started long ago? By people with high risks and preexisting conditions gathering together to support each other? It can be done again.But only if we get government out of the way. It is all their regulations which force people to become greedier than they would have naturally been , if left to their own consciences.Many communities support their own when needed with fund raisers, etc. That is how it should be. Not government sponsored. But too many of our people have fallen into the mindset that wants gov to do everything for them. That is not the purpose of government. Please get educated.
Do you know who the Rockefellers are? Do you know that Rockefeller money launched the pharmaceutical industry? Do you know that Rockefeller money standardized the curricula of the country’s medical schools? Do you know that Rockefeller money founded the American Medical Association? Do you know why? Because the Rockefellers live by John D.’s mantra – “Competition is a sin”. After the Rockefellers eliminated all competition in the oil industry, they started making drugs with their oil. Then they manipulated doctors into believing that the only way to treat disease was with their drugs. Not only is modern “health care” a commodity, it’s a monoply! (It’s not even health care, it’s disease care.) Linda is right. Only by breaking the stranglehold of the government, the insurance companies, and those behind them will we have true, affordable, accessible health care for all.