Destroying Health Care in America

Democrats claim to have protected Medicare and Medicaid from extreme and unnecessary Republican cuts and charge that the Republican agenda rests on massive Medicare cuts. Al Gore said on ABC's 'This Week with David Brinkley,' "Beyond that, the Republican Party, specifically Speaker Gingrich, said that he wanted to make changes that would cause Medicare to wither on the vine." In reality President Clinton vetoed the Republican Medicare Preservation Act, which increased Medicare spending by 7 percent a year -- from $4,800 per beneficiary last year to more than $7,100 in 2002.

Democrats, in their plan to completely destroy private health care and allow for the federal takeover of this industry want their socialist plans to pass. Republicans, afraid of the public perception of them doing nothing, are willing to compromise away real reform.

Cradle to Grave Health Care

Health care with the efficiency of the postal service
and the compassion of the IRS

Fascism, severe economic and social regimentation and the forced suppression of opposition, is easily discerned in the political correctness movement and various aggressive social policies of the Democratic Party as well as recent decisions by the federal courts. A clear example of the authoritarian nature of the present regime was President Clinton's proposed health care program.

Clinton's proposed Health Security Act would have converted 1/7 of the nation's budget into a health bureaucracy, the freedom to choose physicians and to pick a desired treatment were vitually eliminated. In addition, those who disobey the system would receive harsh punishment. According to Bill Clinton, his health care legislation would have "criminalized" most avenues patients and doctors could take to obtain and supply health care outside the plan.

• For example, parents who pay for their child's medical care not covered by the Clinton health care plan or "alliance" could have be convicted of criminal bribery and graft and fined or imprisoned.
• Doctors who cooperate with such parents could also be imprisoned.
• Even citizens who use their own money to avoid waiting lists and rationing could be sent to jail.

President Clinton's health-reform plan would have required every American to carry a health identification card bearing his or her Social Security number. Social Security numbers could be used for computerized tracking of medical or insurance records, cutting the health industry's $35 billion annual paperwork bill, according to aides involved in drafting the package. But some worry that using Social Security numbers on medical ID cards could jeopardize the confidentiality of a patient's medical history. One of the congressional aides said the medical ID card would likely apply first to patients who receive free or assisted medical care under the reform plan. Eventually, every consumer could get a health card.

In the wake of their failure to pass a National Health Insurance plan, liberals are touting their success in passing Health Insurance Reform in the form of the Kennedy/Kassebaum Act. Don't be fooled into believing this Act gives states the power to pass their own Health Insurance. States are only required to do what the Federal government allows them. Their state plans must pass muster by the Department of Health and Human Services or be forced to revert to Federal insurance.

Who are the winners and losers? Regardless of the vote in Congress, the winners are the Insurance companies and federal government. And regardless of the vote in Congress, the losers are the American public. Americans lose because both the quality of their health care will continue to erode as the price will continue to increase.

Real health care reform will only come when we get the government, lawyers, and the courts out of our health care decisions. So long as they are allowed to make our health care decisions, the ONLY criteria for health care providers will be greed.

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