Unless one has been living deep in a cave, without communication, it is evident to all Americans that the health care system advocated by the Obama administration and passed by the Congress, is a disaster. Not only is the roll-out mess on the internet a prime example of government incompetency and waste, increasingly other inherent flaws are appearing in the law itself. Perhaps the 425 members of Congress should have really read the Affordable Health Care Act before casting a vote for a complex and misguided legislative proposal.
Politics, as demonstrated by Obama Care has again demonstrated that there are some aspects of American life that are best left primarily in the hands of the citizenry rather than the federal government.
Allowing a President and his compliant Congress to:”fix “our medical and health care system has failed. It will continue to fail. Raw political power and a lapdog Congress is not the way to repair the best health system in the world. Like a well used car, the system needed some tweaks, dents removed and systems improved. However, destroying the entire system can only lead to chaos in the entire medical system. Doctors are leaving practices, hospitals are closing or consolidating, small companies and larger corporations are reducing the hours of employment to escape unaffordable insurance premiums, and citizens are experiencing higher insurance premiums and cancellation of existing health insurance policies.
This is chaos. And, young, healthy persons seem not to be buying into the new health care scheme. Even though our government will not release the enrollment figures, it is now obvious that the underlying assumption made by the administrations central health care planners were seriously flawed. Simply because young people may have voted for the President does not translate into buying into a pig in a poke plan they neither can afford, at present and in the future. Higher insurance premiums coupled with high burdens of debt from education loans do not paint a pretty picture for many young Americans.
Getting to the nut of the health care disaster, politics rears its sometime scary and diabolic presence. Anything to win. Including promises made that are impossible to keep. Fabrications of basic facts. The crude salesmanship of a launch disaster emanating from the White house Rose Garden. No wonder the American propel are disillusioned and increasingly angry.
The health care system in the United States, even with its faults, remains the envy of the world. Peoople in need of quality health care, from over the world arrive in the U.S. every day to become patients at Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic, and Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center and many other outstanding medical facilities found in many parts of America. People rich and poor, from democracies and dictatorships seek to avail themselves of America’s quality health care systems and facilities. Should a poorly designed, misguided piece of federal legislation prevent this migration to the United States for the best of reasons? Curing disease and preserving life?
Let us let physicians continue to practice medicine. Let hospitals provide the best of care, through collaboration and compromise, innovation, technological advances, improved management practices and competitive cost realities. The private sector in America will and must take the lead to ensure the fundamental improvements needed in our health care system. Government has now very successfully proven that health care should not be a political football. Too many lives, in a nation with a large aging demographic, cannot afford nor endure such government intrusion. Remember prohibition did not work either.
The United States is now really at the crossroads regarding health care. This administration and its political obsession with, power and control may have not improved our health care system, but created real chaos. We shall see.
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