Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Healthcare Reform

AV -à Republicans have a dilemma – pass a watered down bill to partially repeal Obamacare or completely repeal it and start over.  My view is COMPLETE REPEAL. 
I concede the points given by Dennis Prager and those who agree that the most important thing is we repeal Obamacare, even if it means doing it in steps. 
On the other hand, I agree that when the system fails (and let’s be clear – there is quite literally 0% it will succeed in aggregate) republicans will get blamed, whether they partially repeal or take no action.
That however is not my main qualm with the strategy of repealing even with a piece of shit bill.  The main issue is republicans have been using this strategy since I was born and it has not worked once.  Conservatives always give in to moderates on tough political moves.  What happens?   The size of government always grows – every single year in the past 20 years.  Bush doubled the size of the debt only to have Obama double that.  Trump now wants to do the same.  In every single political category, America has moved left. 
We have politicians claiming the Senate Bill is blood money repeal – a disgustingly inaccurate statement.  Had the Senate passed this bill eight years ago, it would have been the biggest entitlement program in US history.  Government is forever and always growing and if we keep conceding to the middle ground between moderate and increasingly extreme left wing views, we will move increasingly left, continuing to grow the size of government, and our debt.  This strategy cannot and will never work.  As soon as you give the imbeciles on the regressive left any ground they double the distance they move left.  This is a losing strategy and at some point we need more Rand Paul’s that grow a pair and stand up to the most regressive political landscape in the history of the United States.
“This essay was originally published in The Free Market in April 1993.

It’s true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.”
For more on healthcare here are the four best steps for the getting cheap high quality healthcare to the common people.
1.       Eliminate all licensing requirements for medical schools, hospitals, pharmacies, medical doctors and other health-care personnel.
2.       Eliminate all government restrictions on the production and sale of pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
3.       Deregulate the heath-insurance industry.

4.       Eliminate all subsidies to the sick or unhealthy.  You get more of anything you subsidize. 

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