Note to politicians:
Do NOT let THE PEOPLE decide for themselves if they want socialism. The
Swiss had such a choice and they voted it down. If you, Mr. Politician,
insist upon moving from a ObamaCare-type system to a full
government-ran single payer system, you must be the one who votes
socialism into existence for the "children" you represent.
Note to American Citizens:
Insist upon as much Democracy as the Swiss have when deciding your family's fate.
Our Affordable Health Care Act, AKA ObamaCare, was foisted upon the
American people to bring us in line with the European Swiss
system. Obviously, even that was not enough for liberals in Switzerland
and voters there had enough freedom to reject full socialism.
Hurray for them!
History of American HealthCare
Our country started out with private health-care. The family doctor made
house calls at our farmhouses, miles out into the countryside to check
up on our sick children.
With corporations came corporate-provided health-care.
Government
politicians created this system, not by waving the "stick", but by
giving generous tax-break "carrots" to corporations to goad
corporations into providing health-care to heavily unionized workers,
who were also heavily vested in obtaining this coverage for their union
members.
So the triple power
of the governmental power overseeing the health-care system, especially
with their tools of taxation, FDA, CDC, Medicare, Medicaid, and
Department of Human Services; the corporate power; and the union
power; insured that politicians were well funded by corporations,
insured that corporations had the
people envying corporate jobs and insured that the unions bosses were
fat and rich as well.
So long as the majority worked for corporations, this Fascist-system of
government-directed, corporate-ran, health-care was all the rage.
Then the corporations started outsourcing jobs to overseas facilities
and the majority of corporate job holders became a minority in this
country.
Not only that, but health-care was not getting any cheaper with more and more
industrialized medicine such as MRIs, CAT scans, complex blood
tests, and the like, all conspiring to make health-care astronomically more expensive.
Along with the legislative branch of government making this arrangement
financially feasible for corporations tax-wise, you may as well add in
a hyper-active judicial branch of government allowing astronomically
priced lawsuits against the medical profession, along with an
over-zealous executive branch of government in the FDA
bureaucracy, which added layers and layers and layers of additional
quality
checks, without actually adding any quality -- but that's government
for you!
Finally, the final straw -- you add in a large dose of federally-caused
housing bubble creation which resulted in a fiery crash, that threw
massive amounts of people in factory jobs out on the streets; now,
without their fascist-created, corporate-provided health-care.
Does not take a genius to figure out where this is headed. The
federal government is famous for having an answer to all the problems
it creates.
There is a huge medical industry, supported by massive infusions
of federal dollars, who have a vested interest in keeping the patients
coming in, saddled with millions of frantic Americans who still want
health-care, but no longer holding a corporate job that provides such
care.
This is what a politician would call an "Opportunity too good to pass
up". Or in Jewish Rahm Emanuel-talk, "You never let a serious crisis go
to waste".
All in all, that is how ObamaCare came into existence!
And
as the Swiss can relate -- like drug usage -- a stepping stone to the
hard-stuff -- total socialism with total state control over
health-care.
We will not be so lucky to get to vote on the matter in this country.
We didn't get to vote if we wanted untold generations, with untold
millions of people, dependent upon the government for their
retirement, yet one legislative session of Congress, taking advantage
of the immediate pain of The Great Depression (which the government's
Federal Reserve caused), dictated Social Security for the next 100
legislative sessions. (Yeh, try to wean people off SS after you have
people become totally dependent upon it. A genius play!)
We didn't get to vote for our children to have Obamacare and certainly
our children don't get a say on the matter either, even when they grow
up and start voting for themselves. By then, it will become just as
securely entrenched as SS is entrenched now. More than
likely, this will end up as single-payer, without a single citizen
getting a vote in the matter.
A Better Way
Instead of heading in the direction of an All-State (play on words)
health insurance solution, we should return to our roots of a No-State
solution.
Yes, the State would not even be involved in taxing our contributions
to a private Health Savings Account (HSA). (Thus, giving us the
same tax breaks Corporations have long enjoyed!)
Yes, we save into our own accounts while we are still young and strong,
to have savings for our old age illnesses when it is really
needed. (Thus, we are not dependent upon government politicians
blackmailing us to vote for him upon reaching old age)
Yes, like anything else, we prudently purchase cheap insurance should
we become long term disabled. Or just pay for the HSA payments out of
the general long term disability insurance we have bought. (Thus, we
are not blackmailed by corporations to work for them long term just for
the benefits)
For all terms of unemployment, we have a rainy-day accumulation in our
HSA to bridge us over until the next job comes along. (Sounds like
unemployment insurance from the government doesn't it? Imagine cutting
out the middle man hear!!)
Yes, PRIVATE CHARITY can provide payments ONLY to those who are already
seriously ill and cannot pay for an HSA themselves, but the usage of the insurance
is still directed by the individual, even in this case, out of his or her own private health
savings accounts. (Thus, we know the true price of charity and knowingly give to deserving individuals.)
