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by Doug MataconisIn the fifth part of his Ron Paul: Unplugged series, John Stossel talks to the the Texas Congressman and Medical Doctor about health care:
“We’ve had the government involved in our medical care system since the early ’70s, we’ve had managed care. And all of a sudden, nobody’s happy with it,” Paul said in our interview.
Paul has even gone as far as taking the lonely position of saying government shouldn’t provide health insurance for poor children.
What would happen to those kids under his administration? Paul replied by talking about his early experience as a doctor.
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“Should we move to, toward a socialized system, or should we look to the marketplace to help us sort out the problems we have in medicine? My argument, of course, is always looking for the answers in the free market, in private choices, and in individuals dealing with those problems, rather than depending on the state.”
Considering that the health system in this country has gotten worse as government involvement in health care
has become more pervasive, Paul’s ideas make perfect sense to me.
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Indeed, anything the federal government has thrown money at (i.e. education, health care) has gotten so expensive. Thank god the government isn’t into electronics. Can you imagine how much flat screen TVs and DVD players would cost if they trended the same way as health-care?.
This is how it works:
1. Government forcibly collects your taxes.
2. Government central planners decide where to spend your money, by-passing market pressures all together.
3. Not worrying about where the funds will come from (the IRS has machine guns), these companies who benefit from government largess get increasingly slovenly and greedy. These companies who would normally be sent packing by free-market competition, are now free to suck (and pass the sucking on to you, the consumer).
4. People like Mitt Romney and H-bomb Clinton dream of even more thorough ways to subvert the free-market, because of course this will be better in the end (for the salivating HMOs).
Whenever this type of thing is considered, don’t think how the market failed, but think how we failed the market. Sure the market can be scary at times, and it is not perfect by any means, but nothing is perfect, and its the best we have.
Go Ron!
From A Proud Paul-Bot/Ite/Tard
Comment by Tron Denver — December 16, 2007 @ 4:31 amLiberty Anthem
by Duce Suber
Secure our borders
With a presidents orders
Deport them all
Before we fall
Kill the fed
Off with its head
Or wait in line
For a piece of bread
Save our money
WE KNOW ITS FUNNY!
This is getting old
Lets get back to gold
Lose the mainstream
their not on our team
To listen to Hannity
Is just plain insanity.
Down with the establishment
Its just our entanglement
Vote for liberty
It whats meant to be
Wake up America!
Where have you been?
Take a look at congress
We have lions in our den
Peace and Prosperity
Is not where it ought to be
We fight in Iraq
But its time
To bring America back.
Ron Paul is for us All
Comment by Duce — December 16, 2007 @ 7:12 amJust as Jefferson saw,
Vote for America
Vote for us ALL.
Ah, yes. Worse, but more equal.
Comment by somebody — December 16, 2007 @ 9:21 amThe health care system in the country has certainly not gotten worse since the government got involved. The number and kinds of ailments that can be treated successfully has skyrocketed since the early 70s.
Comment by Joshua Holmes — December 16, 2007 @ 9:30 amYet, at the same time, elective cosmetic surgery, and LASIK, are trending downwards in price (while constantly improving in quality).
Could it be that competition actually works?
If the government was in charge of our vision, we’d all have horn-rimmed glasses and the inventor of LASIK would have been prohibited from practicing, as a protectionist measure that the eyeglass makers would get written into law.
Comment by Brad Warbiany — December 16, 2007 @ 10:00 amForced Morals Never Work. When You Force Health Care, The CARE Will Not Exist Anymore.
The Government Does Nothing Well.
I Vote For Virtue; I Vote For Ron Paul !!!
Comment by Brad — December 16, 2007 @ 5:23 pmThe reason Ron Paul is so popular, is that he is popular with a Majority of people.
The other reason he is so popular with the Majority, is he is ‘unpopular’ with the minority that is polled.
He is also a threat to the military industrial complex and its propaganda wing, the main stream media, and the people are standing up to say, we are ready for Ron Paul, the constitution and real change.
Comment by Mick Russom — December 17, 2007 @ 3:03 amI don’t think the system has gotten anymore equal. If anything it’s gotten a little more unequal.
Poor people have to pay $400 for general care in an emergency room is ridiculous.
Comment by TanGeng — December 17, 2007 @ 10:39 pm