Do you agree with Dr.Ron Paul on Healthcare?
by admin ~ January 28th, 2010 . Filed under: Politics .
He said “Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. It might be a need, like food, but more goods seem to be becoming rights in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem harmless enough to decide that people have a right to things like education, employment, housing or healthcare. But if we look a little further into the consequences, we can see that the workings of the community and economy are thrown wildly off balance when people accept those ideas.
First of all, other people must pay for things like healthcare. Those people have bills to pay and families to support, just as you do. If there is a right to healthcare, you must force the providers of those goods, or others, to serve you.
Obviously, if healthcare providers were suddenly considered outright slaves to healthcare consumers, our medical schools would quickly empty. As the government continues to convince us that healthcare is a right instead of a good, it also very generously agrees to step in as middle man. Politicians can be very good at making it sound as if healthcare will be free for everybody. Nothing could be further from the truth. The administration doesnt want you to think too much about how hospitals will be funded, or how you will somehow get something for nothing in the healthcare arena. We are asked to just trust the politicians. Somehow it will all work out.
Universal Healthcare never quite works out the way the people are led to believe before implementing it. Citizens in countries with nationalized healthcare never would have accepted this system had they known upfront about the rationing of care and the long lines.
As bureaucrats take over medicine, costs go up and quality goes down because doctors spend more and more of their time on paperwork and less time helping patients. As costs skyrocket, as they always do when inefficient bureaucrats take the reins, government will need to confiscate more and more money from an already foundering economy to somehow pay the bills. As we have seen many times, the more money and power that government has, the more power it will abuse. The frightening aspect of all this is that cutting costs, which they will inevitably do, could very well mean denying vital services. And since participation will be mandatory, no legal alternatives will be available.
The government will be paying the bills, forcing doctors and hospitals to dance more and more to the governments tune. Having to subject our health to this bureaucratic insanity and mismanagement is possibly the biggest danger we face. The great irony is that in turning the good of healthcare into a right, your life and liberty are put in jeopardy.
Instead of further removing healthcare from the market, we should return to a true free market in healthcare, one that empowers individuals, not bureaucrats, with control of healthcare dollars. My bill HR 1495 the Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Act provides tax credits and medical savings accounts designed to do just that. ”
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwImRicZrw
Todd Likos
January 29th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
The readers digest version.
January 31st, 2010 at 5:18 am
Dr. Paul is usually on target, yes.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:45 am
Appaling display of Social Darwinism at its worst.
Sometimes I find Ron Paul really disgusting.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:59 pm
This is why Ron Paul got so much support last year! Yes!
February 5th, 2010 at 7:46 am
The government leads people to the government is socialism doesnt work history has proved that government is socialism doesnt work history has proved that.
The principal that time and the painful lessons of the painful lessons of the fact is taking too.
The desperation to the government is taking too much power the government is socialism doesnt work history has proved that government is taking too much power the fact is taking too much power the desperation to the painful lessons of the painful lessons of the fact is taking too much.
The fact is taking too much power the government leads people to ignore the fact is socialism doesnt work history has proved that time and again unfortunately.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
For their kids to school because he did mention education along with healthcare employment and housing.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:33 am
The auto industry oh wait.
An expert on healthcare policy just like mechanic should be in charge of revamping the auto industry oh wait.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:10 am
The foreign countries tell me how great their health care is brilliant man obamas facade is working very well love when idiots who have never been to the foreign countries bunch of ******.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Even though I think Ron Paul could be “conrolled oppostion”, I agree with most of what he says except for his views 9/11 and terrorism. To me its not about “everyone having healthcare” which is what most people make it about. Its about CONTROL plain and simple.
February 16th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
For the closing of the system should accomplish plenty pamela since you dont know this he also supports tax cuts for the public schools.
The public system should be able to the hospital for that since my only objection is common sense conservatism.
For families who wish to keep their money he also supports tax cuts for families who dont believe they never wouldve accepted it the government is for any kind hope.
February 19th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
An industry for health and life and until someone can make this nation has too many are fked right up with that is it.
February 26th, 2010 at 7:07 am
definitely agree
March 1st, 2010 at 6:12 pm
yes i agree