It is necessary for Americans to have access to affordable, quality health care; the question is how to go about providing it. Some politicians would suggest giving the Government complete control over our health care system as to provide free health care for everyone that needs it.
Although this is a noble goal, in reality nothing is ever completely “free”.
When you take into account that the Government truly has no money of it’s own, the money needed to fund this “free” health care would have to be squeezed from the already burdened American tax payer. With a national debt of $12 Trillion dollars and climbing ($39,000.00 for every man woman and child in the United States), we cannot afford for the Government to control another 17% of the economy. We should be cutting spending, not increasing it.
What many people fail to realize is that Government intervention in our health care system is one of the main causes of our current health care “crisis”. The federal government decided long ago that it knew how to manage your health care better than you and replaced personal responsibility and accountability with a system that puts corporate interests first. Our free market health care system that was once the envy of the world has now become a federally-managed disaster.
Now, the Food and Drug Administration’s bias toward large pharmaceutical companies enlarges their power, limits treatment options, and drives consumers to seek foreign medicines. Regulations from D.C. make it virtually impossible for small business owners to cover their employees. The unemployed often cannot afford insurance, meaning those who need basic medical attention overcrowd emergency rooms and drive up premiums.
The federal government will not suddenly become efficient managers if universal health care is instituted. Government health care only means long waiting periods, lack of choice, poor quality, and frustration. Many Canadians, fed up with socialized medicine, come to the U.S. in order to obtain care. Socialized medicine will not magically work here.
But no matter how much of a role the federal government takes in our health care, it is ultimately Michigan Doctors providing services for Michigan Citizens. Doctors from Washington do not appear out of nowhere to take care of us, we take care of ourselves. Not only is federal interference in health care unconstitutional, it is insulting to the residents of Upper Michigan to say that we need to send money to Washington so they can tell us how to organize health care for our area.
Health care should not be left up to HMOs, big drug companies, and government bureaucrats.
It is time to take back our health care. This is why I support:
By removing federal regulations, encouraging competition, and presenting real choices, we can make our health care system the envy of the world once again.
