Fixing Health Care<\/p>\n
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 \u2019solutions\u2019 for \u2019the common good\u2019. One upside is that political thought and awareness has risen for the first time since the 60\u2019s, this time without the tie-dyed, dope smoking confusion.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t happen if we socialize everything in sight. Socialization is wonderful until, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, \u201cYou run out of other people\u2019s money\u201d. It would also, in the ideal sense, require common sense, a commodity, apparently surgically removed, upon crossing the Potomac.<\/p>\n
For most every basic fix we come up with there is an underlying reason, usually created by government, that it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
For instance: The biggest, stated, problem with health care, is, in general is cost.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t fix the cost of health care before we fix insurance prices.
\n We can\u2019t fix insurance prices before we fix the exorbitant prices of doctors and hospitals.
\n We can\u2019t fix doctor and hospital costs before we limit malpractice awards.
\n We can\u2019t 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?<\/p>\n
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\u2019d expect from a hack with a room temperature I.Q., who\u2019s only job is to get re-elected. Some congressmen have even refused to hold town meetings on the grounds that it is \u2018beneath the dignity of their office\u2019! Here\u2019s a news flash: They work for us, not the other way around. If you get called to the boss\u2019s office, it\u2019s usually a good idea to show up if you want to keep your job.<\/p>\n
When asked about tort reform, Howard Dean said, there are too many people against it \u2026 Like who, trial lawyers and professional victims? The latter \u2018constituent group, is expanding by leaps and bounds as more people \u2018discover\u2019 rights that are not elicited in the constitution. I heard one congressman, no doubt the product of \u2018government schools’, say that we have a right because it\u2019s in the preamble of the constitution, to wit; \u201cpromote the general welfare.\u201d Even a nodding acquaintance with, and a cursory examination of, a dictionary would explain the difference between \u2019promote\u2019 and \u2019provide\u2019. As in, \u201cprovide for the mutual defense\u201d. 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\u2019s stick with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u2019solutions\u2019 for \u2019the common good\u2019. One upside … Continue reading