http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/01/better_health_care_97244.html
Great article on government run health care by John Stossel. Animals get the best health care in Canada, guess why? Because it's market driven, not run by the government. The problems with our health care is because of government involvement. Why would you want them to completely run it. They have no credibility to run anything efficiently, profitably, and honestly. Profit is the incentive for companies to develop new technologies that cure afflictions or ease suffering. Profit is an opportunity for taxation to gov't, and morally wrong to Obama. Profit is the greatest incentive for quality, competitive pricing, and the greatest innovations. It's when the government starts meddling with the economics of an industry, removing free market forces, that the industry becomes unsustainable, and a train wreck. Some examples of failed programs, ruined industries, and business ventures/gov't sponsored monopolies are: health care, mortgage industry, ethanol, energy in general, social security, medicare, medicaide, Amtrak, Postal Service, and the congressional restaurant to name a few. I'm sure I'm missing many. The point is, gov't cannot be trusted to run a lemonade stand, much less something as personal and important as health care.
When the government runs health care, they will have the power to control and regulate every aspect of your life by claiming that an activity has a negative effect on your health and will increase the cost of national health care. They will get some government hack organization to manufacture a study to say what they want it to say. Just look at global warming as a perfect example of manufacturing "proof" and suppressing the opposition to pass an economically devasting, freedom destroying, government empowering, energy bill.
I agree with Ronald Reagan: "government is not the answer, it's the problem."
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