Government interference?
Published: August 26, 2009
What should Congress do about health care? Nothing!
Congress has ignored the problems it should be fixing; Medicare and Social Security are headed for bankruptcy. If Washington would leave the economy alone, the marketplace would fix itself.
Government is intrinsically inefficient; it cannot improve medical care without raising the cost for everyone or limiting treatment. Ronald Reagan said, “Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”
Government has no money; what it spends, it confiscates from citizens.
Democrats claim 46 million people are without medical insurance. What they don’t tell you is that two-thirds of these chose not to buy insurance, though they could. No insurance doesn’t mean no medical care.
There are some things that states or communities can do.
Pass tort reform, making frivilous lawsuits unprofitable. I suggest that judges be empowered to require the loser in a lawsuit to pay all trial costs, including all lawyer’s fees.
Judges should be able to fine lawyers for filing frivilous lawsuits, paid from the lawyers’ personal funds, not passed on to the client.
Communities could establish urgent care clinics to supplement emergency rooms. Indigent patients should be required to go to these clinics first.
Carlie Butler
Ozark
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Do we need to reform health care ?Should the government be involved ?I say yes to both.I used the word involved not controlled.I do not believe the government should control the health care system ,but assist . Our other option is to let the private sector continue. The same private sector that has moved factories overseas ,made massive layoffs. Let the insurance companies ,who get a government subsidy of 230 billion dollars while raising premiums and cutting coverage,run things .
I often if this whole health care debate is a message and messenger deal.Would there be as big as an objection if Bush or McCain (if he had won )had proposed these changes .Is it that some people want President Obama to fail and will work there hardest to see that he does .It is almost as if it is ,we say no now what is the question.
As far as this administration taling our liberties ,has forgotten the last eight years when our phones were monitored,mail and internet use monitored ,holding people without trial or charges ,just to namea few . All in the name of National Security.Not to mention Iraq and running up the national debt.
We should have a debate ,but a debate means both sides explaining their views ,not one side shouting down the other without having a plan of their own.
Toobad, your name should be Toofunny because you are a hoot! You call me a moron yet you can’t even read my screen name (it’s blg not big). Anyway- getting back to the real world and away from whatever universe you live in- I run a family owned small business. I have 18 employees. Out of those 18, only 4 have health insurance (myself included). Why? Because it’s a little over $1000 per month. My employees are hard working, productive citizens of society. They are not lazy. They do not sit around waiting for the govenment to help them. There are always some people that will take advantage of the system, but that doesn’t mean those bad apples should ruin the whole bunch. In 2000, our health insurance premiums were around $380 per month, now they are over $1000. I would like for my employees to be able to buy into a public option in order to help their families and also to keep my premiums from drastic increases every year. I think maybe you don’t understand that a public option is exactly what it says- OPTION. I’ll probably keep my private insurance but for those that can’t afford it, they should have the opportunity to buy from the govenment. Have you even read HR 3200? I have and it’s not as long and complicated as some media would like you to believe. It took me about 3 hours. I highly recommend you read it. Also, your messiah, Reagan, was a good man that did a lot of great things for America- but he was not perfect.
So, while you continue to spew your lies/hate just keep in mind that the big boys of the insurance companies are sitting back laughing because they have conned/scared you to actually believe everything that you wrote.
“Pinget and Big” are your typical socialists/communists, government is the answer for them and you not personal responsibility of people to live and die by the choices they make. They think the feds should force you to give your money so people who are lazy or made stupid decisions can have a free ride on your wallet, the one you need to take care of your own problems with. In red china and the Old Soviet Union Pinget and Big would be party bosses that would make your life helll and take away what is yours for the good of the People.
They forget that the constitution is a contract that not only guarantees our rights but limits the government from over reaching like taking over private car companies and businesses and setting pay scales, firing CEOs and telling them what they can and can’t do.
Thanks to morons like Pinget and Big, you can see your liberty slipping away daya after day Obama their messiah is in charge.
Oh by the way, Reaganomics was a success, 99% of the US economist say it was unlike the fringe B/S left wing academics at Ivy league colleges that hated him say.
Pinget is right on this one. Ms. Butler have you been paying attention? Reaganomics is a failure. Even conservatives have admitted it. The free market does not always fix itself because of greed and corruption.
Wrong. The free market has failed to deliver and has instead given us the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Reaganism has been disproven. See Krugman’s piece “All the President’s Zombies” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24krugman.html?scp=1&sq=krugman reagan zombie&st=cse .
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