The Collective Thinkers, Think Wrong!

I've been getting a bit of traffic to my website from the "great thinkers" of the left, telling me that my views are wrong and I'm stupid. How skewed their views are. Don't they realize that they are exercising one of their First Amendment rights, just as I am. Free Speech.

Our Constitution, founded on the principles of really enlightened men should be studied by every American citizen. It was written by men who believed in individual rights and not in the collective mentality that exists in the Left and Far Left in this country, at this time. The left has elite, pompous, high-sounding people who believe they and only they have the answers for society and all it's ills.

That is their problem. Belief that society is more important than the individual. That is how the arguments for and against the health care proposals are being postulated. The rights of the individual verses the collective. The supporters of the current health care legislation want a universal system, that covers everyone, just a little. They believe it is better to get limited, universal health care than to stay with a system that looks at a patient as an individual with needs for care that are unique to each human being.

America, is at it's core, is a generous Nation. It provides more opportunity and freedom to it's citizens than anywhere else in the world. Why do you think all those "Illegals" come here? American society has it's faults just like any living entity. Creating a group of citizens who believe they are entitled to be supported, without any effort on their part, is part of what's wrong with this health care debate.

I believe, basic health care should be afforded to every legal citizen but I don't believe the Government is the necessary purveyor of those services. The private sector can always provide services cheaper through competition. But Governments, Local, State and Federal always enact laws that are contrary to the free markets, limiting services with undue regulation and driving up prices for care.

The Private Sector has it's abuses for providing health care too. Where the laws need to be changed would be to require insurance companies to drop pre-existing condition clauses from their policies. Make coverage portable so that laid off workers could receive medical benefits along with their Unemployment. Local Governments could provide temporary coverage until other employment is found. Requiring every person in the country to be invested in their coverage so that health care doesn't become an entitlement.

Most of us, polls show as high as 80% of us, like our current health care, whether we receive it through private policies, medicare, medicaid, or co-ops. The debatable, 45% figure, the current Administration is using to drive its argument is a false number. No matter who runs health care, coverage should only be for legal U.S. citizens and people who pay a portion of their income for their coverage. If it's not broke don't destroy it.

Torte reform has to be included in any serious debate about health care costs. Doctors have to run extra medical tests rather than using their own expertise, to diagnose, to protect themselves from excessive abuse of class action law suits and mal-practice suits brought at the drop of a hat because of the mistaken belief that doctors can fix any medical problem. Insurance premiums for mal-practice needs to be brought down. They must be kept reasonable because we loose good Doctors every day because they can't afford their mal-practice premiums.

Costs can be brought down by competition in the private sector rather than the government limiting care, which is rationing. There are provisions in the bills now circulating in Congress and the Senate that require Government Boards to decide what kind of care you can receive, they aren't called "Death Panels" but their effect is the same.

Anytime a society places a value on an individual to limit what care or procedure they will be able to receive then that society is evil. Current provisions being proposed would prevent individuals from seeking additional care if the Government deemed their care unnecessary.

There are all kinds of imaginative programs and ideas for providing health care floating around this debate and that's the way it should be, a debate! Not just one side, the "I WON" side, shoving it's "progressive" ideas down the throats of the American people.

Run pilot programs on a small scale to determine which programs will work and which won't. The Government could provide a catastrophic insurance policy to provide for devastating illnesses much like flood insurance to help bring down the cost of private insurance. The needs of the people of one state are different than the needs of another state. Again, I say, "One size does not fit all".

I pray that sanity will erupt in the governing bodies of this free nation. Freedom and individual rights should be the driving force behind the policies that govern a free nation. We should aspire to the best possible care for our citizens and not a policy that "levels the playing field" and lowers our standards of health care and innovation in medical technology.

The current proposals in Congress and the Senate have little to do with health care and everything to do with control. People inside this government want to control every facet of our lives and they will use any means to do it. Stop this Health Care Legislation Now! Stop it before some government bureaucrat decides you are no longer a useful member of society. God should decide your fate, not the Government.