Let’s Reform Healthcare
Deborah Venable
01/16/10
The
only healthcare reform that will make our system better is less – not more
government intervention. Government
intervention in so many ways has depreciated the care that patients can expect
from the medical profession. Medicine
is not and should not ever be a controlling mechanism in how we live our lives,
but that is exactly how government, and those who would support more government
imposition on the rest of us
wish
to have it.
“Big
Pharma” and the most lecherous of the big health insurance industry,
(especially including government health insurance) grew directly out of
increased government regulation on everything medical. The further we strayed from letting the free
market control such things as who would be successful in the whole field of
medicine, insisting instead that government “protect” us from the “bad”
providers of medical care, equipment, and drugs, the more we invited corruption
and decline in the overall quality of medical care in this country. An added liability to government control of
the industry is the shocking increase of the price tag to the average consumer
of products and services. Corruption, after
all, is a very expensive commodity.
It
is truly sad at a time when attention needs to be paid to so many other things
of much greater importance, we conservative voices must continually draw
attention to the life and death struggle we are in because of this one
issue. If we lose this one, it will
just be the beginning of a losing streak from which we may never recover.
I
thought I’d seen the worst that a corrupt government could dish out to a
self-governing populace in a supposedly free republic, but nothing could have
prepared me for what I have witnessed in the last year.
The cry
to “reform healthcare” has been an ongoing beating drum in the “progressive”
march to socialism, communism, and tyranny.
Why? Because it is the one area
of societal existence that should be completely off limits to the collective
view, and the collectivists know it!
Healthcare is extremely personal.
It is an individual responsibility and should be governed by individual
choice.
Think
about this. If you need a new set of
tires for your vehicle, or you need to have some engine work done on it, you
can shop around for price, convenience, and quality, then purchase the products
and services that you decide is best for you at the time. You are either pleased or not pleased with
your choice, and you will probably either recommend (or not) the provider of
the products and services, and use them again at a later date, or not.
If you
are the one who needs “some engine work done” however, your shopping is
probably extremely limited, unless you have an endless supply of money and no
health insurance. Even then, you will
have to be inconvenienced with reams of paperwork before a physician will even
see you. Some of the questions you will
have to answer may be relative to your needs, but most of them will not have
any relevance – and you will have to answer the same questions over and over
again. God help you if yours is a
recurring condition that you have any idea about what you need from the
physician.
The
medical profession has been trained to look at every patient academically and
objectively – never subjectively. This
has evolved over a period of time specifically because of this progressive
march toward collectivism. If the
people are to have healthcare as a right, then there must be a collective set
of rules to govern it. Individual healthcare
should be like a simple math problem with the specifics acquired from the
individual being treated. Collective
healthcare, like the universal form we are headed towards, is the equivalent of
a mathematical theorem, where the variables are supplied by sets of
quantitative elimination. If a equals
this and b equals this, then c must equal what’s left after we add a plus b
plus c and subtract a and b. HUH? Who can do that? Why, government can of course!
Government knows what the total should equal, therefore, the rest is
easy!
I
apologize if your brain is hurting.
This is the point. If you expect
your healthcare to be paid for by government, (read that other people), then
you should be happy as a lark about the way things are going. BUT, if you’d rather pay your own way, make
your own health decisions, and take responsibility for your actions, then you
should insist on healthcare reform – the kind of reform that will take away
regulation, strip the necessity for health insurance, and allow doctors to
treat patients one-on-one without having to please anyone but the patients he
or she is treating.
Why
are we allowing politicians to decide for us when, what, where, how, and why we
can or will receive medical care if we ever need it? This is only the beginning of the decisions we will eventually
turn over to them if we let them succeed in making us all slaves to their will
and our well-being.