What? Are you crazy! This president despises the free market and is creating policies that are destroying the free market! You say… Well think about it carefully. Take healthcare for instance.
Living with a nurse for 25 years, you can imagine how many conversations we have had regarding healthcare. Me, a student of politics, and self proclaimed policy analyst, and my wife, have had many opportunities to discuss the impact of government intervention in healthcare. Here’s what I conclude.
Government control of healthcare will be a debacle because the government is incompetent (Medicare and Medicaid are already a debacle). The federal government is incompetent for these fundamental reasons; lack of accountability, hiring practices and policies, no profit motive, no connection to the consumer of the service, and imbedded unions that protect the incompetent employees that are all too common in government agencies.
Healthcare is personal and therefore extremely emotional. If we combine this with the reasons government is incompetent we have a recipe for disaster. That is why the only way to save the quality and access to healthcare is a free market model. And the Obama policies are driving the free market solution. These policy wonks don’t realize it yet, but America will not accept rationing or subpar medical services, and will do whatever necessary to get quality medical care. They have seen what the system can be, and the American people will never be convinced they can’t have it again. And that is why the free market will undoubtedly emerge just like it has in every country that has socialized medicine. As long as people have money to pay for private services they will. That’s a fact socialists don’t understand! So, here is what is happening in healthcare already that will save the free market.
Doctor pay is being cut by Medicare and Medicaid. These payments have not kept up with inflation and more and more doctors are refusing Medicare and Medicaid patients. Private insurance payments are based on the Medicare rate schedule so again doctors are finding it harder and harder to get market value for their services. Place this fact on top of the cost of medical school and missed opportunity costs based on the many years it takes to become a doctor, and you create an environment that incents early retirement and discourages new doctors from entering the profession. The current conditions and future concerns in the healthcare market are increasing doctor retirements and reducing the number of doctors entering the field, creating less supply while the demand is guaranteed to increase with the perception of “free” government healthcare.
In conversations with healthcare professionals what you are starting to hear more loudly than ever is private pay and free market principles as the solution. More and more doctors are starting to refuse private and government insurance programs and taking cash payment or creating their own payment plans through their practice. The more these doctors opt out of insurance the bigger the private pay market will become. In the end it will mean better care for patients at the market cost of services. As this happens more and more students will again consider the investment to become a doctor a good one.
Doctors will be able to influence change based on the demand for their services, and I predict as doctors become scarce, large corporations, and pools of small businesses will begin to hire private doctors to provide healthcare for their employees. Doctors no longer will have to be administrators and can focus on care while making a healthy paycheck. Corporations will eliminate the huge headache of administering multiple insurance plans and will be able to customize more affordable and accessible healthcare for their employees. Combine the rejection of private and government insurance with a demand from business to take care of their employees, and the government will be forced to yield control.
In conclusion, the private business of healthcare is going to thrive because of the burdens and incompetence that is occurring through bloated government and private health insurance bureaucracies. The free market will find a way to survive. Healthcare is too important and personal to leave to government or large insurance bureaucracies. The only solution left is the free market. There is nowhere else this industry can go. It has been over regulated for too long and is at a breaking point. The only way the United States healthcare “system” can survive is in a free market, entrepreneurial environment where people are free to go to doctors and pay a fare rate for the services. Insurance and government have become too expensive.
In the end, people will realize that the free market is the best answer to a healthy economic future and will re-embrace this foundational principle of our country…
True knowledge of American history is necessary to insure the future of the America we love… This is an important time in our country's history. We must be wise and measured as we choose our leaders going forward.
Showing posts with label personal accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal accountability. Show all posts
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Heading for a Cliff…
Catastrophe is dead ahead, and it is clear to see - so why are we not stepping on the brakes? I think the November election will be a small “pump” of the brake but will that be enough? Our kid’s future is being spent on bailing out unionized, entitled Greek workers, who need to cut their own benefits, fix their own self made problems, and leave our kids money alone!
The federal government has a plan to end obesity, but the problem is it ends our kid’s freedom. These people are evil dictators disguised as do-gooders. We need to read the constitution and apply it; now!
Government healthcare will ruin healthcare. Unions are destroying the jobs they supposedly treasure. The government programs are destroying charitable giving. The education system is destroying education, respect for the flag and faith in God.
Unemployment “benefits” are destroying incentive to work. Illegal people in this country are taking jobs, undermining wages, bankrupting our community services, and filling our prisons. But we can’t afford a fence.
The free market is under attack and companies that make bad business decisions are being rewarded with political favor, and our hard earned income, and kid’s futures are being siphoned to takeover these failures. Utilities are raising rates to pay for the people that can’t pay but they somehow can afford other luxuries in life.
A minority leftist group has been staging this coup d’état for many years, and they are now implementing an agenda that hates, despises, and wants to destroy the constitution and America. They are in the driver’s seat speeding toward the cliff. We need a new driver. We need to start standing up for our principles.
We need to be proud that we pray, work hard and make money to support OUR families. We need to be proud that we volunteer and give to the charities WE believe deserve our support. We need to be proud of home schooling and private education, and promote education that supports OUR Kid’s future. We need to fly the flag, wear the flag, and sing our national anthem with a new vigor. We need to be proud Americans again believing in OUR INDIVIDUAL greatness that allows us to share our individual wealth to help others. We need to end poverty in Detroit and other communities of color by getting the people currently locked into generational government programs off of government programs and focused on the true American Dream. We need to drive back to our founding principles and constitution that has given us the greatness WE have created and stop telling lies that government has given us anything of worth. The last thing this government has given us of worth was the constitution.
Everything else has been driving us straight toward a cliff…
If you have been paying attention you know we are losing our country. If you have read our constitution you know it is being trampled as if it doesn’t exist. If you have been paying attention you are getting ever more anxious about how this is going to end up. If you have been paying attention you are feeling helpless to stop this madness. If you have been paying attention you are frightened. If you are paying attention you must get involved. If you are paying attention you need to learn our history and read our constitution. If you are paying attention you know you have to get everyone else’s attention…
The federal government has a plan to end obesity, but the problem is it ends our kid’s freedom. These people are evil dictators disguised as do-gooders. We need to read the constitution and apply it; now!
Government healthcare will ruin healthcare. Unions are destroying the jobs they supposedly treasure. The government programs are destroying charitable giving. The education system is destroying education, respect for the flag and faith in God.
Unemployment “benefits” are destroying incentive to work. Illegal people in this country are taking jobs, undermining wages, bankrupting our community services, and filling our prisons. But we can’t afford a fence.
The free market is under attack and companies that make bad business decisions are being rewarded with political favor, and our hard earned income, and kid’s futures are being siphoned to takeover these failures. Utilities are raising rates to pay for the people that can’t pay but they somehow can afford other luxuries in life.
A minority leftist group has been staging this coup d’état for many years, and they are now implementing an agenda that hates, despises, and wants to destroy the constitution and America. They are in the driver’s seat speeding toward the cliff. We need a new driver. We need to start standing up for our principles.
We need to be proud that we pray, work hard and make money to support OUR families. We need to be proud that we volunteer and give to the charities WE believe deserve our support. We need to be proud of home schooling and private education, and promote education that supports OUR Kid’s future. We need to fly the flag, wear the flag, and sing our national anthem with a new vigor. We need to be proud Americans again believing in OUR INDIVIDUAL greatness that allows us to share our individual wealth to help others. We need to end poverty in Detroit and other communities of color by getting the people currently locked into generational government programs off of government programs and focused on the true American Dream. We need to drive back to our founding principles and constitution that has given us the greatness WE have created and stop telling lies that government has given us anything of worth. The last thing this government has given us of worth was the constitution.
Everything else has been driving us straight toward a cliff…
If you have been paying attention you know we are losing our country. If you have read our constitution you know it is being trampled as if it doesn’t exist. If you have been paying attention you are getting ever more anxious about how this is going to end up. If you have been paying attention you are feeling helpless to stop this madness. If you have been paying attention you are frightened. If you are paying attention you must get involved. If you are paying attention you need to learn our history and read our constitution. If you are paying attention you know you have to get everyone else’s attention…
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Why do we keep asking for more?
Why is the government the first answer to everything when there appears to be a problem? People are talking on their phones in the car and getting into accidents; what is the government going to do about it? People are getting fat; what is the government going to do about it? People are smoking cigarettes; what is the government going to do about it? A kid tragically drowns in a pool; what is the government going to do about it? Kids are failing in school; what is the government going to do about it? College is getting too expensive; what is the government going to do about it? Gas is getting too expensive; what is the government going to do about it? Teens are drinking and driving; what is the government going to do about it? Kids are wearing their pants too low on their butt; what is the government going to do about it?
It doesn’t matter what it is the knee jerk reaction for too many is; what is the government going to do about it? How about this; what are you and I going to do about it? How can we as a community of individuals do something about it? How can we resolve problems if we keep asking the government to get involved?
Have we not figured out that the more we request the government to act the worse off we have become as a nation? The facts are right in front of our face. Most problems are tied directly to bad behavior of individual’s and the answer lies in the individual taking responsibility for their lives not asking for more government intervention. We are on a collision course to disaster. The disaster is the end of the United States as we know it; the home of individual freedom and ingenuity. We are becoming sheep out to slaughter.
Most politicians have never done the hard work you do every day so why ask them to solve something you are best suited to solve? They are usually the most privileged amongst us and believe you are incapable. They have the nerve to lecture us about our lives? Look at what they have done to this great nation? Enough said.
Most Americans when they take the time to think things through agree; government is inefficient and wasteful, not to say it steals people’s future. So why do we keep asking government to do what it can’t? We have seen the results and the results are clear; government is the problem, it is not the solution… Hasn’t the government done enough to us?
It doesn’t matter what it is the knee jerk reaction for too many is; what is the government going to do about it? How about this; what are you and I going to do about it? How can we as a community of individuals do something about it? How can we resolve problems if we keep asking the government to get involved?
Have we not figured out that the more we request the government to act the worse off we have become as a nation? The facts are right in front of our face. Most problems are tied directly to bad behavior of individual’s and the answer lies in the individual taking responsibility for their lives not asking for more government intervention. We are on a collision course to disaster. The disaster is the end of the United States as we know it; the home of individual freedom and ingenuity. We are becoming sheep out to slaughter.
Most politicians have never done the hard work you do every day so why ask them to solve something you are best suited to solve? They are usually the most privileged amongst us and believe you are incapable. They have the nerve to lecture us about our lives? Look at what they have done to this great nation? Enough said.
Most Americans when they take the time to think things through agree; government is inefficient and wasteful, not to say it steals people’s future. So why do we keep asking government to do what it can’t? We have seen the results and the results are clear; government is the problem, it is not the solution… Hasn’t the government done enough to us?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
No More Personal Accountability…
The tragic murder of George Tiller a man who performed late term abortions in Kansas is bringing to light one of the most important issues in society today; personal accountability.
Left wing blogs and left wing activists are trying to paint the entire community of people that oppose abortions in the same light as the man who killed Tiller. Their argument is that the act of this one crazy deranged man was influenced by Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, talk radio, preachers, and anyone opposed to abortion that has spoken out against the act. They believe if it wasn’t for the opposition to abortion and the legitimate debate about what abortion is Tiller would be alive today. They argue that any open and free debate can influence people to do tragic things like murdering the people they disagree with. If we believe this to be true we must shut down all speech including theirs.
The problem with the left’s argument is they leave out the one person responsible for the act of murder; the murderer. The personal accountability we each have over our actions is the true issue here. Every day people make personal decisions to engage in behavior that is both good and bad. No one holds a gun to our head to behave in certain ways. People are influenced by TV, radio, Blogs, and personal conversations. If we hold to the left’s current argument we will need to hold everyone else responsible for influencing bad behavior except the person that is truly responsible. The only people the left ever hold accountable for anything are conservatives.
The left continues to argue even after years and years of contrary evidence that people aren’t responsible for their own lot in life. They believe minorities are poor because of racism, the alcoholic continues to drink because of conditions beyond the drinkers control, children behave aggressively because of a chemical imbalance, and rich people get rich because they were born into wealth. The list goes on and on. The denial of personal accountability in both good and bad circumstances is ignored.
People are poor because they never finished their education, people are drunks because they choose to drink, kids are aggressive because parents don’t do their jobs, the rich get rich because they take risks and work 15 hours a day seven days a week. They are the way they are because of the choices they make. There are some exceptions but for the majority of us in life it is personal decisions that get us where we end up in life.
That is the case with this murder of Tiller. The murderer was responsible for taking the life of Tiller. O’Reilly, Ingraham, talk radio, Blogs, religious leaders will continue to debate the issue of abortion and the impact it has on society. That is a debate that must continue and they have no accountability in the murder of Tiller. The murderer is the only one responsible for taking Tiller’s life…
Left wing blogs and left wing activists are trying to paint the entire community of people that oppose abortions in the same light as the man who killed Tiller. Their argument is that the act of this one crazy deranged man was influenced by Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, talk radio, preachers, and anyone opposed to abortion that has spoken out against the act. They believe if it wasn’t for the opposition to abortion and the legitimate debate about what abortion is Tiller would be alive today. They argue that any open and free debate can influence people to do tragic things like murdering the people they disagree with. If we believe this to be true we must shut down all speech including theirs.
The problem with the left’s argument is they leave out the one person responsible for the act of murder; the murderer. The personal accountability we each have over our actions is the true issue here. Every day people make personal decisions to engage in behavior that is both good and bad. No one holds a gun to our head to behave in certain ways. People are influenced by TV, radio, Blogs, and personal conversations. If we hold to the left’s current argument we will need to hold everyone else responsible for influencing bad behavior except the person that is truly responsible. The only people the left ever hold accountable for anything are conservatives.
The left continues to argue even after years and years of contrary evidence that people aren’t responsible for their own lot in life. They believe minorities are poor because of racism, the alcoholic continues to drink because of conditions beyond the drinkers control, children behave aggressively because of a chemical imbalance, and rich people get rich because they were born into wealth. The list goes on and on. The denial of personal accountability in both good and bad circumstances is ignored.
People are poor because they never finished their education, people are drunks because they choose to drink, kids are aggressive because parents don’t do their jobs, the rich get rich because they take risks and work 15 hours a day seven days a week. They are the way they are because of the choices they make. There are some exceptions but for the majority of us in life it is personal decisions that get us where we end up in life.
That is the case with this murder of Tiller. The murderer was responsible for taking the life of Tiller. O’Reilly, Ingraham, talk radio, Blogs, religious leaders will continue to debate the issue of abortion and the impact it has on society. That is a debate that must continue and they have no accountability in the murder of Tiller. The murderer is the only one responsible for taking Tiller’s life…
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