"How To Solve The Healthcare Crisis and Why It's So Damned Hard To Fix!"
"How To Solve The Healthcare Crisis and Why It's So Damned Hard To Fix"
You can’t have free healthcare, anymore than you can have free money. If you don’t understand why, you can’t really understand the healthcare debate. Regurgitating a handful of memorized talking points isn’t a meaningful argument, not if your looking for actual solutions.
The greatest stumbling block to solving the healthcare crisis is ignorance. To begin to decode this problem, you must understand one thing; the only reason there’s a crisis at all, is the government got involved.
Why do I say this? I will answer that question, by asking a series of questions;
Is there a shortage of food in America?
Is there a shortage of water in America?
The answer to these questions is “No!” There isn’t. Food and water are more fundamental to life than healthcare. To prove my point, I will use myself as an example. I go to the doctor, maybe, 3 or 4 times a year, for a basic check up. However, I eat and drink, every day, multiple times a day. If I didn’t, no access to doctors, would matter. Not one damn bit! The need to eat and drink, supersedes the need for a doctor, even if you’re dying of cancer or some other ailment. I mean, if I don’t drink water, I’ll be dead within a couple of days.
Why do I raise such an obvious point? To deflect the endlessly silly argument that greed compels merchants to withhold medical care and price gouge patients because they can—meaning, the patient must pay, or die. This, of course, is profoundly stupid. Not a little stupid, but off the charts stupid! If this were true, water should cost a fortune. A glass of water should be 47 billion dollars. But it isn’t. I can go to my local grocery store and buy a gallon of filtered, pseudo iceberg-water for a buck, and then drink to my hearts delight. I can also stand on the roadside and panhandle enough to eat for the day, probably in one hour.
So, here’s a question.
How many obese panhandlers do you see. in the good ole U.S.A.? Lots! Why is that? Is it because the government subsidizes the cost of food, as it does with healthcare? Not a chance. No. The government, thankfully, has a hands-off policy about such things, with a few exceptions. In fact, everywhere real markets are allowed to function, you get more of everything, at a better price, by far, than you would through government subsidies and socialism. The two aren’t even close, to being close.
So, how do you solve the healthcare crisis? Get rid of the cause of the crisis and let free markets work. But this sounds iffy to some folk. Why? Go back and re-read what I wrote, and take it to heart.
One more question; do poverty stricken, starving countries suffer from obesity problems? Hardly!
This will not stop the usual suspects from invoking a range of leftwing arguments and solutions, which only reinforces my original statement, that ignorance is the problem. The solution to this alleged dilemma, however, is staring us dead in the face. Having said that, politicians will seldom ever do what they should, because they’re terrified of voters, and that is precisely why the problem won’t really get fixed, no matter who’s in power. Because, we the people, won’t let them.
P.S. Trump-care, or whatever you choose to call it, will pass, probably in August, after a few changes. It won’t be what it should, but it will be better than Obama-care, which was never anything more than a Trojan Horse of rotten socialist ideas. And remember—you, me, we—are the real problem. Washington is just the symptom, and ignorance—our ignorance—is their greatest ally.
Mark Magula
You can’t have free healthcare, anymore than you can have free money. If you don’t understand why, you can’t really understand the healthcare debate. Regurgitating a handful of memorized talking points isn’t a meaningful argument, not if your looking for actual solutions.
The greatest stumbling block to solving the healthcare crisis is ignorance. To begin to decode this problem, you must understand one thing; the only reason there’s a crisis at all, is the government got involved.
Why do I say this? I will answer that question, by asking a series of questions;
Is there a shortage of food in America?
Is there a shortage of water in America?
The answer to these questions is “No!” There isn’t. Food and water are more fundamental to life than healthcare. To prove my point, I will use myself as an example. I go to the doctor, maybe, 3 or 4 times a year, for a basic check up. However, I eat and drink, every day, multiple times a day. If I didn’t, no access to doctors, would matter. Not one damn bit! The need to eat and drink, supersedes the need for a doctor, even if you’re dying of cancer or some other ailment. I mean, if I don’t drink water, I’ll be dead within a couple of days.
Why do I raise such an obvious point? To deflect the endlessly silly argument that greed compels merchants to withhold medical care and price gouge patients because they can—meaning, the patient must pay, or die. This, of course, is profoundly stupid. Not a little stupid, but off the charts stupid! If this were true, water should cost a fortune. A glass of water should be 47 billion dollars. But it isn’t. I can go to my local grocery store and buy a gallon of filtered, pseudo iceberg-water for a buck, and then drink to my hearts delight. I can also stand on the roadside and panhandle enough to eat for the day, probably in one hour.
So, here’s a question.
How many obese panhandlers do you see. in the good ole U.S.A.? Lots! Why is that? Is it because the government subsidizes the cost of food, as it does with healthcare? Not a chance. No. The government, thankfully, has a hands-off policy about such things, with a few exceptions. In fact, everywhere real markets are allowed to function, you get more of everything, at a better price, by far, than you would through government subsidies and socialism. The two aren’t even close, to being close.
So, how do you solve the healthcare crisis? Get rid of the cause of the crisis and let free markets work. But this sounds iffy to some folk. Why? Go back and re-read what I wrote, and take it to heart.
One more question; do poverty stricken, starving countries suffer from obesity problems? Hardly!
This will not stop the usual suspects from invoking a range of leftwing arguments and solutions, which only reinforces my original statement, that ignorance is the problem. The solution to this alleged dilemma, however, is staring us dead in the face. Having said that, politicians will seldom ever do what they should, because they’re terrified of voters, and that is precisely why the problem won’t really get fixed, no matter who’s in power. Because, we the people, won’t let them.
P.S. Trump-care, or whatever you choose to call it, will pass, probably in August, after a few changes. It won’t be what it should, but it will be better than Obama-care, which was never anything more than a Trojan Horse of rotten socialist ideas. And remember—you, me, we—are the real problem. Washington is just the symptom, and ignorance—our ignorance—is their greatest ally.
Mark Magula