Will someone please remind me why we need healthcare insurance, let alone government run healthcare insurance? I thought that the whole idea was to have affordable medical care for everyone, right? Then why do we need health insurance in the first place? Have we as Americans become so blinded by our government, media and greed that we can’t see the truth or just plain common sense for that matter? I know what you’re thinking, “How can you say such things? How can it be greedy to want affordable healthcare for my family? What does the government and media have to do with this?”
Let me start out by saying that too many of us are missing the whole point in this health-scare debate. This is not about healthcare, the poor who can’t afford it, the evil insurance companies or those without coverage.
This is about a federal government and power-hungry and greedy politicians that have watched free-market capitalism make the insurance, banking and auto industries some of the most financially stable, prosperous and powerful entities on the planet and being jealous of that power and wealth. For years, they have regulated and taxed them in an effort to get a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Now they are making their final grab for all the marbles. Make no mistake, I am not wealthy nor am I involved in or beholden to any of these industries in any way. I am just not going to begrudge anyone in this country the opportunity to find success in whatever endeavor they pursue. Liberals would have me hate the rich because I am not. To me, that is enough reason to support and encourage them. Abraham Lincoln once said “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong”.
I am old enough to remember when health insurance wasn’t an issue. If you got sick, you went to the doctor and paid him for his services, just like when your car broke down, you go to the garage and pay the mechanic for his services. An office call was $10.00 to $20.00 and penicillin was around $3.00 and other services were likewise reasonably priced. When the insurance companies came in, in part to ensure that doctors got paid, prices went up for healthcare because we now had a middleman that needed to get paid. This was an admirable idea, but somewhere along the line, greed and corruption reared their ugly heads, then government bureaucracies jumped in and decided to regulate and tax the doctors and the insurance companies to get a piece of this ever-growing pie.
When the only players in the healthcare system were the doctors and the patients, free-market capitalism worked just fine. It was only with the addition of insurance companies that leeched off of this system and the government intrusion and ensuing bureaucracies that it blew up into the out of control fiasco that it is today.
The government and media would have you believe that we need more control of the insurance companies by the government, when in fact, both of these entities are the very root of the problem. Perhaps if we eliminated the insurance companies and limited the government in their power and influence in our lives and businesses, doctors could afford to offer their services at a reasonable price once again and our healthcare “crisis” would be over.
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