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The answer to our healthcare woes is thus not more government regulation, or the shifting of payment for healthcare from individuals to the government.
I didn't read the whole article. The dogma is tiresome - too expensive.
Health Care is much the same as the Net Neutrality issue. Side A and side B are fighting over control of power. The solution is not to transfer more power from the many and to the few. The solution is to earn more power, invest more power into earning more power, and to avoid transferring any power (by force) away from those who earn it.
The problem is the monstrosity called THE STATE. Our (humanities) enemy is falsehood. The State is a monster because it is false.
The STATE can not fix any problem - ever. People must fix, or create, problems. I've looked over the Kucinich Universal Heath Care Plan and find it to be a step in the right direction compared to no change in the current, and despicable, drive toward Limited Liability Corporate Fascist Health Care Profit Pyramid Schemes.
Those are a lot of words but not nearly as many words as can be found in all the 'legal' documents applied to force medical proffessionals to abide by the multitude of LAWS governing the medical proffession.
How about some sanity? How about logic?
When the profit motive is applied to the medical profession and the word "profit" does not include a measure of 'health' for each individual involved in the medical profession, then, the medical profession will be driven toward 'making money'.
Doctors may work themselves to death treating more and more patients as cheaply as possible, as fast as possible, and run their profession like an assembly line.
If ever a profession existed whereby the motive for contributing toward this profession was driven by a clear sense of charity, then, the medical profession is it. Giving time and energy to better another person's life motivates people toward the medical profession. There is no money tree in the medical profession. If there is a money tree in the medical profession, then, I think that tree was built and nurtured into existence by fraud and force. It is unnatural.
Fraud and force be seen as a cause of the problems associated with the medical profession with a simple investigation. Follow the paper trail.
Who controls the paper trial? Who dictates the costs associated with moving paper?
You may not be accustomed to viewing this issue in this manner. If you are not accustomed to viewing this issue in this manner, then, you are now realizing the fraud part of the problem. This viewpoint uncovers the problem and goes directly to the source of the problem.
Any person living can become infected with a form of injury that will cost that person more wealth than that person can ever produce in his entire lifetime. That person may die of the infection. That is a huge price to pay.
How can that person survive the infection?
That person, any person, must disperse the cost of treatment. Other people must pay the cost of treatment or that person will die.
That is fact. That above is irrefutable fact.
Take any example of infection, injury, disease, accident, and crime visited upon any person and know that the costs of treatment can easily exceed any capacity for one person to assume those costs on their own.
This brings up many possible viewpoints that people utilize to conceptualize how the costs of treatment are dispersed from the injured to other people.
A. Society pays the costs
B. The Free Market pays the costs
C. Government pays the costs
D. The State pays the costs
E. Insurance pays the costs
It matters not how any one person or any group of people sharing any one viewpoint view the facts and how the facts are labeled. The facts remain the facts.
The redistribution of costs associated with medical treatments happens. It happens no matter what form is filled out or which agency fills out the forms. It happens or people die.
Allow me to pick what happens to work as the most accurate method of accounting for the actual transfers of wealth when individuals are treated by medical professionals.
E. Insurance pays the costs
If the medical profession is to be liberated from all fraud and all misdirected force, then, the focus of attention must be directed at INSURANCE.
Insurance is the practice of being TAXED in proportion to a predictable measure of future cost. If you are going to be insured, then, you must be TAXED.
I use the term TAX to mean simply: You can't spend all your earnings on fun stuff, NO, you have to TAX yourself and give up some of your wealth toward a FUND where other people have access to that WEALTH when medical costs MUST BE PAID FOR.
Although doctors are driven into the medical profession for charitable reasons it is absurd to expect anyone to work for free.
This falls under the "You can't have your cake and eat it too" perception unless you happen to be a lying theif (and even that profession requires a TAXING amount of time and effort expended by anyone profiting from it).
This brings up the term Universality.
How much does one person pay and how much does one person receive during the transfers of wealth associated with the medial profession?
And - what governs those transfers of wealth?