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You say our HealthCare System is Broken! Have you looked at our Government lately?

The following Video is fantastic in that it breaks down the issue of our healthcare system in fairly simple terms. Our healthcare system certainly needs reform but the question is; “should it be even more Government control or can the free market fix it?” For all of the people that are looking at this on an emotional level and want to guilt everyone into thinking that all of our healthcare system needs to be run by the Government in order for the less fortunate people to be covered please consider the following;

1) Medicare, an example of Govt. run healthcare, is broke and the people that deal with it know how sorry it is.  The Govt. has no incentive to do anything well and we have multiple examples of how that works (Dept. of Education, Medicare, Dept. of Energy, FEMA [Katrina response],etc, etc).

2) The government has no constitutional authority to step in and take control of mine or your healthcare and if it thinks it does then there should be a revolt by the people to keep the tyranny at bay.  Our Republic and its form of government has resulted in America being the greatest place in the world to live and prosper and it needs to be kept as the Founders (through the Constitution) envisioned it in order to keep it that way.  The present healthcare bill that is being proposed will fundamentally change that if approved.

3) The numbers cited about people with no healthcare or health insurance are not even close to right and are skewered to play on the compassion of Americans.  The local Health Dept. Hospitals, ER’s all take people with no health insurance and the American people ultimately pay the tab.  I would agree that there should be reform in the way that destitute people are helped medically and that there be some form of welfare health insurance (like tax breaks) but it shouldn’t mean compromising everybody’s healthcare to assuage some guilt.

4) Bottom line is that most of the problems with our healthcare costs are because the government controls 1/2 of it with Medicare and regulates the other 1/2 in ways that drive costs up and reduces efficiency.

Awesome Truth

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The Real Story On The Uninsured. 4 Million!

The Real Story On The Uninsured. The Foundry dissects the numbers and finds the TRUTH!

[Story Link] The Real Story On The Uninsured » The Foundry.

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