Two subjects, tax cuts (previous article) for the wealthy and universal health care appear regularly in letters to editors of the various newspapers across the land. The themes in the letters produced by the liberal mind never vary from letter to letter, no matter where they live. It is as though they are all reading from the same scripted message. In fact, they are, and it is leading the loss of this nation’s freedom and liberty to the bitter end of full-blown socialism.  Though this was written more than a year ago, the facts are more apparent as each day, week and month becomes history.

                                 Part II Universal Health Insurance

At one time health care and health insurance were relatively inexpensive, but that began to change with the inception of Medi-Care in 1965. Little by little as the government (read that liberal Democrat politicians) increased its control over health care costs, availability, coverage of policies, and other related matters, the costs have spiraled upward in all facets of the health care industry. No matter the facts that have and are continuing to cause the situation of the out of control costs, an ever large segment of the population wants more of the same, namely government to provide universal health care for everyone and which fits the Marxist ideology.

On the same day that the letter covered in the previous article appeared, June 25, 2006, another letter (written by Gary Schepper, Bloomington) was published in which the writer wants the government to provide more largesse to the needy. The emphasis in the letter was the profits made by companies who are vital to the health care efforts of the nation. To understand the nature of the complaint and why the believers are uninformed and the beliefs ludicrous, here is a paragraph from the article: How can we continue to tolerate the exorbitant profits of those in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, whose executives make millions of dollars per year, at the expense of the health of our children, their parents and grandparents?

The writer and many others like him dislike profits, no matter who makes them as long as it isn’t them who are being denied profits. They fail to understand that it takes people of intelligence to operate huge companies. But the one thing they apparently don’t understand is that the development of new drugs cost enormous amounts of money and the price of new drugs will be high in the beginning in order to gain back the amount spent on research. They ignore the fact that a large portion of over the counter drugs was at one time only available by prescription. The reason being is that the FDA required that for public safety, and as new drugs came onto the market, those drugs were released from the prescription requirement for dispensing. The other factor of cost is the amount of liability insurance drug companies must carry. (Lawsuits against the manufacturers only drive up the cost for everyone.) The truth is that without enough profits to cover the cost of research and development, drugs will become unavailable since the companies will become bankrupt.

Next the writer wrote: It is time for our politicians to stop listening to the industry insiders who profit from our current system and often write the legislation that gets passed regarding our health-care system. The writer identifies the problem and doesn’t realize it. It is politicians who have made a mess of the system. Prior to 1965, health care was a personal issue and those who needed it could receive it. They either paid for it out of pocket or had private insurance to cover the expenses. In the case of those who couldn’t pay, arrangements were available and could be made to pay part or all of the cost. Whether the writer likes it or not, it is time for the politicians to get their noses out of health care and let it return to the private sector as it was before LBJ’s Great Society debacle. Those who broke it certainly aren’t the ones to fix it. As history shows, they only make it worse.

The writer continued with a statement about profits being put ahead of the needs of the people. The universal health care proponents (socialist leaning minds) can’t understand that profits and the needs of people go hand in hand and that the needs of people are dependent on profits if the needs are to be met. Then he wrote: It is time for serious, comprehensive health-care reform, for serious leadership on this issue. It is time to listen to the people. Yes, it is time for reform and that reform is to return the entire system to private enterprise; take the (government) politicians out of the management circle; let the number of insurance companies who want to sell health policies increase; stop dictating what shall be covered, who will be covered, and let the market place determine premium cost levels. To the socialist mind that is a radical solution, but it isn’t. It is what was done before 1965 when LBJ began to ruin the health care system.

The last sentence reveals a lot about the writer. The people (actually he means listen to me) he refers to are those who want a government bureaucracy to manage health care, all paid for by the “rich” who received the enormous tax cuts when the government gave back money that is believed not to belong to them. It is time for the politicians to ignore the “I want the government to provide it and do it for me” crowd and let those with expertise to manage health care. If the politicians listen to the give me more bunch the problem will only become worse. As President Ronald Reagan said in his first inaugural address: “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem” and that is precisely the issue causing the problem with health care.

In Sorting It Out, in order to turn the system around, the Marxist minds must be tuned out, and those who know how to operate a sound health care system must rise to the top and take control of the industry for the good of all, the “rich” included.

© 06-25-2006 DEC