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SAVING HEALTH CARE: More about Free-Enterprise |
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Submitted by Fritz Scheffel
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The last article sent on January 12th described a broad look at what a workable health care system would look like. I have received questions from some of you asking for more information, and I will share some with you in the next issue. For this issue I want to expand on the free-enterprise system, which by definition is void of government involvement. Can anyone tell me of a government program of any kind that has had the success forecast for it upon its enactment? I have asked this question many times in the last few years and the only answer offered was “Social Security”. Let’s take a look at this claim. Social Security has been around for many years and by all estimates is forecast to go broke in the next few years. There used to be a fund where the money collected was stored so as to insure the ongoing success of the system. Well, our wonderful politicians could not stand seeing all of that money just sitting there, so they spent it on other vote-buying schemes and are now faced with having to budget the necessary funds each year.
The “Obamacare” health care bill passed and signed by President Obama has so many flaws in it, it is totally unworkable and really an insult to working Americans. The administration’s justification for enacting this bill was to make sure everyone is covered by health insurance. In the previous paragraph I used the term “vote-buying schemes”, well this is an example of that term. We should all remember that government run programs have no record of success, and they expect us to be gullible enough to expect success now. Well, let’s take a look.
We have been told this health care bill is a gift to Americans from our benevolent president because there will not be cost increases. Yet, this “gifted” health care plan forces you and me to purchase it and fines us if we do not. We are also told this plan purportedly covers at least tem million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, some with new guns.
Remember the news accounts of the process used to enact this terrible bill? It was supposedly written by a committee chairman who says he doesn’t understand it. Further, it was passed by a Congress that did not read it, but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes.
Boy, do we miss Ronald Reagan!! Here are a couple of quotes from him that would be even funnier if they did not hit so close to home. “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” He also said “government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.”
We can go a long way to solving our problems if we elect only politicians who believe like Ronald Reagan did. Remember, free-enterprise is defined as absent government involvement.
Fritz Scheffel provides regular articles about health care and has books on the subject currently available through Amazon, Amazon Kindle and The Health Care Fix website. You are also invited to sign up and receive Fritz’s Health Care Newsletter. Join through Fritz’s website. Comments and questions welcomed.
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