The Socialist Barack Obama Administration is perhaps just days away from enacting a law that will put our healthcare in the hands of a cold government bureaucracy consisting of nameless/faceless bureaucrats, add job-killing taxes through massive spending, create large waiting lists for life-saving medical care, create a shortage of physicians, significantly harm the middle class and poor, elicit health-care rationing as we’ve never before experienced, and, in the end, bring us an inferior level of healthcare.
One of the lies
that the socialists use to try to win the argument is “Do we stick with a Free-Market Healthcare system which is not working, or do we at least do something to try and help; for example, go to a system of Universal Healthcare, everyone deserves free medicine!”
Anti-Constitutionality aside, WE DON’T CURRENTLY HAVE A FREE-MARKET BASED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM! Actually, the U.S. hasn’t had a free market-based healthcare system in over 45 years. When we did, it worked extremely well for everyone, including the financially disadvantaged. Only after big government first inched its way in and then eventually controlled nearly every aspect of it did we find ourselves in the predicament we are currently in, with the masses now asking the government to solve the very problem they created.
The next time a family member presents the argument as the false choice of two, calmly tell them “We don’t have a free market medical system.” After a few confused moments, they might, in desperation, say, “but we have to do something.” Yes, something has got to change. Our healthcare system needs to change, but it needs to be the CORRECT change, not more of the same socialist crazy ideas that gotthe United States into this mess to begin with.
Today, there is over 125,000 pages of healthcare regulation in the U.S. Federal Register. This is not a free market. The Obama Administration is determined to reduce the United State’s healthcare spending. The groundwork for influencing your doctor's decisions was included in the stimulus package, also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
This legislation sets a goal that every individual's treatments will be recorded by computer, and your physician will be guided by electronically delivered protocols on "appropriate" and "cost-effective" care. If you need prescription drug help you might get it or then again, you might not.
Heading the new system is Dr. David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor, named national coordinator of health information technology. He has written in the past about controlling the cost of health care.
"Government controls are a proven strategy for controlling health care expenditures," he commented in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in March 2001. Blumenthal said there are problems with it:
"Longer waits for elective procedures and reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices" is a direct quote from Blumenthal.
People count on their doctor to do whatever is possible to treat their condition. That is the promise physicians make by taking the Hippocratic Oath. However, The President’s advisers are looking to save money by messing with that oath and controlling your doctor's decisions.
The views articulated by Obama, including Blumenthal are contrary to our American values. These concepts are common in Europe, where governments create an environment of medical scarcity. Do Americans want to copy Europe?
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