Dear Paul, This is not meant to be critical of you personally but to simply point out an error in your thinking and provide an alternative thought process. Here is the part I wish to concentrate upon:
" If we can afford wars, and afford to give mega corporations large
amounts of money, and afford 2billion bullets, and afford 2400 armored
vehicles, and etc etc, We can afford to give quality healthcare to our
citizens that are being bankrupted over skyrocketing costs. I have
argued with many liberals that agree that this is not the best program,
but there is no alternative."
What
has happened to your thinking is the same thing that is wrong with the
majority of Americans these days. You have all been gradually
conditioned into accepting the premiss that government is the solution
to all problems. This is the position that big government types want you
to believe but it's NOT what the Constitution said the roll of
government is.
The roll of the federal government
was deliberately specified to be minimal in it's affect on the people
by being limited to national defense and managing our relationship with
other countries via treaties and such. Then the Constitution stated that
all power not given to the federal government was reserved for the
people and the several states. No mention of a department of health,
education, interior, agriculture or anything else. Those are all more
modern creations and served only to increase the power of government
over the people and the states which runs counter to the Constitution.
There
was and is an "alternative', Paul. It's call the free market system and
it works each and every time it's tried without the heavy hand of
government attempting to "regulate" everything. Why does it work?
Competition for your dollars and mine.
We have
Hospitals A, B and C all operating in the same city. For the sake of the
Illustration we'll stipulate that all are the same size, offer the same
services and have exactly the same number of people on staff.
Word
on the street says that Hospital A has a staff that is pretty rude to
the customers (if a place offers a service in exchange for money then
the person paying for the service is a customer..... NOT a patient)
There are long waiting periods for services and customers are often
ignored while the staff talks among themselves.
Hospital
B has had many complaints about the quality of their services.
Operations take a long time to get except in extreme emergencies.
Surgical incisions are sutured too tightly resulting in large ugly
scars. Several mal-practice law suits have been filed against the
hospital.
Hospital C gets glowing reviews from it's
customers. The staff is friendly, highly professional and
communicates well with their customers. Services are provided in a
timely, efficient manner with no complaints. Additionally they manage
to do everything at a cost which is slightly below the other two
facilities.
In the above scenario which facility is likely to get the most business and why? Which facility would YOU go to and why?
That
is the free market system at work. The facility offering the best
combination of customer service and satisfaction for the best price will
earn the most customers and thus... the most income. The others will
either have to improve their customer service and become competitive or
they will eventually go out of business. (or be bought up by Hospital C
so that facility can expand its already popular services to more people
in more locations)
Competition for customers and
their dollars drives businesses to become better at what they do and
challenges them to do it more efficiently than the other guy. Together
those two things drive innovation and that makes everyone better in the
long run. The bad apples will weed themselves out as the people won't
do business with them.
If you check back through
history the intrusion of government, via regulations, was what
initiated the rise in cost of medical care and the gradual decline in
effectiveness of service. The more government intruded into the business
of health the worst and more expensive it became...... until the
government pointed it's boney finger at the industry and told them they
had to have even MORE government intervention. If some government
intrusion made it bad how is more government going to make it better?
It's not.
The cost of health care continued to grow
because hospitals had to employ more and more people who were NOT
medical professionals and who provided NO medical services or support.
Now all hospitals have to have entire wings employing dozens and dozens
of people devoted to NOTHING but "government compliance,." Tens of
thousands of pages of rules and regulations mandated by government......
and a government that is ready and willing to sue a hospital out of
business for failure to comply with any one of those rules and
regulations. As Ronald Reagan said so very well all those years ago.....
"Government isn't the solution.... government is the problem!"
Now
then.... fast forward to today. One party is throwing a temper tantrum
that would make my 6 years old grandchildren embarrassed..... and is
shutting down all sorts of things for the purpose of inflicting as much
pain and inconvenience as possible on the general population. They have
gone as far as hiring additional people to erect barriers around PUBLIC
MONUMENTS which stand on an open air mall so as to keep THE PEOPLE away
from THE PEOPLES monuments and sacred places! That is so far beyond
childish that it has ceased to be funny.
And here
is the point....... if we have a government that will go so far as to
try to close an OCEAN....... keep the greatest generation from visiting
THEIR war memorial....... throw elderly people out of their homes.....
and all the other stupid childish stuff they are doing........ would
they not also shut down hospitals if THEY were in complete control of
them??? Is there a lower limit to how infantile they would act to get
their way even when that is clearly against the will of the people??
As with almost everything else.... the less government intrusion there is in our lives and our businesses.... the better things are for all of us.
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