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Fixing Health Care

The health care conundrum is a perfect, though un-admitted, problem, mostly created by government. As usual, government is good at creating solutions to non existent problems so they can implement ’solutions’ for ’the common good’. One upside is that political thought and awareness has risen for the first time since the 60’s, this time without the tie-dyed, dope smoking confusion.

While we are never going to see the days of a 5 cent cigar, we are also, never going to see the days of trading 2 chickens and a bushel of wheat for a doctor visit. Costs have risen to keep pace with technology, and will continue to rise along with life expectancy. But, health care costs rising at multiples of the inflation rate require solutions that may not be possible under our present system, and certainly won’t happen if we socialize everything in sight. Socialization is wonderful until, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, “You run out of other people’s money”. It would also, in the ideal sense, require common sense, a commodity, apparently surgically removed, upon crossing the Potomac.

For most every basic fix we come up with there is an underlying reason, usually created by government, that it won’t work.

For instance: The biggest, stated, problem with health care, is, in general is cost.

We can’t fix the cost of health care before we fix insurance prices.
We can’t fix insurance prices before we fix the exorbitant prices of doctors and hospitals.
We can’t fix doctor and hospital costs before we limit malpractice awards.
We can’t fix malpractice awards because they are supported by trial lawyers, the most massive contributors to President Obama and the Democrat party, and infest congress like bed bugs in a cheap hotel. See where this is going?

With our new-found political awareness, (where the hell was it last November?) pointed questions have been asked at town hall meetings across America. The answers are about what you’d expect from a hack with a room temperature I.Q., who’s only job is to get re-elected. Some congressmen have even refused to hold town meetings on the grounds that it is ‘beneath the dignity of their office’! Here’s a news flash: They work for us, not the other way around. If you get called to the boss’s office, it’s usually a good idea to show up if you want to keep your job.

When asked about tort reform, Howard Dean said, there are too many people against it … Like who, trial lawyers and professional victims? The latter ‘constituent group, is expanding by leaps and bounds as more people ‘discover’ rights that are not elicited in the constitution. I heard one congressman, no doubt the product of ‘government schools’, say that we have a right because it’s in the preamble of the constitution, to wit; “promote the general welfare.” Even a nodding acquaintance with, and a cursory examination of, a dictionary would explain the difference between ’promote’ and ’provide’. As in, “provide for the mutual defense”. Words mean things and our founding fathers, who did not go to government schools, argued for years to arrive at just the right ones to set us on our path. Let’s stick with them.