Healthcare

We are hearing again that the elitists in Washington are seeking to interfere, further, into yet another aspect of our lives. This time it is how we deal with our healthcare provider. Instead of free individuals being able to seek the doctor-patient relationship that best suits their own interests, it will now be dictated to us by government central-planners.

Central Planning does not work and it will be a disaster if the government attempts to try it with healthcare. Decisions concerning the proper care of each individual seeking healthcare is virtually impossible in such a system. Lets take a cancer patient for example. Should the cancer patient go through chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery? Maybe some varying combination of two of these options is needed? Each of the options can be substituted, one for the other, or some of the options can be complementary to the other. Can government central-planners efficiently make the decision for each individual cancer patient? NO! The most efficient way to ensure the best care is through a proper doctor-patient relationship, and that can only come about through free markets and competition in the healthcare industry.

The proponents of nationalized healthcare say the idea would boost our economy. How do they know this? They don't, and furthermore, they can't possibly know. Lets look at a couple of socialized healthcare programs that we have in this country now, Medicare and Medicaid. President Lyndon Johnson told Americans that these programs would be very affordable ways to care for our elderly and less fortunate. He assured us that by 1990, Medicare would only cost us $9 billion and Medicaid would cost $1 billion. Lets see how close the central planners were to getting these figures right. In 1990, Medicare cost Americans $110 billion while Medicaid cost us $41 billion! This should not surprise us. Government has no means of pricing structure. That's what free markets are for. Freedom in the healthcare industry, and in markets in general, is the only thing that can boost our economy and bring it back to life.

We, as liberty minded people, can not stand for this further erosion of our freedom. We must stand against the interventionist elitists that plague us in Washington DC.