Maggie's Farm

Re: Healthcare is a Right.

There are four major forces at work behind the claim that healthcare is a right. The first is the legitimate fact that elderly receive great health care;while young people receive terrible health care. So those concerned about this obvious inequality believe that if they make healthcare a right, then young people will have access to the same medical treatments as the old. On the surface, that looks like a valid argument. But a problem arises when you try to apply numbers. Our medical system is running a huge deficit. So increasing the burden on the system by adding millions more people will only hasten its collapse. There are four groups who benefit from the healthcare is a right argument, here they are:

1. The elderly, who believe that they have a right to unlimited free medical care.

2. Blacks, homosexuals, and drug addicts who wish to transmit HIV through their lifestyle choices, and then be compensated.

3. The Medical System, which makes a lot of money providing care to everyone.

4. The government, who wishes to make free medical care first a right; and then a legal obligation.

To understand how these four groups interact on a political level, one only consider the attempt by the government to ban tobacco. They claim that tobacco causes cancer, but it does not. The real reason for the tobacco ban is two-fold: First, it allows the government to "moralize" about something. That's important for a corrupt group of crooks who want to look like "good people". And it also changes the subject. As you may note, there isn't one word of warning about the HIV epidemic which is sweeping the country. In some black areas, more than fifty percent of the population is HIV positive. It's a true national health crisis, but talking about it is forbidden. Why? Because as far as Washington is concerned, the more HIV positive people, the better. All of them will need lifetime medical care. And even better, being "sick" will start to be viewed as a normal condition. According to the Institute of Mental Health, one in five Americans is mentally ill. Therefore, in the future everyone will be legally obligated to follow the instructions of their avatar doctor. Your iPhone will measure your heart rate, and report you to the Police if you get angry. The purest possible tyranny.

There is no halfway solution to all of this. It's impossible to create a system which for political reasons, grants different levels of care to different kinds of people. That's ridiculous. The only answer is to shut-down all medical reimbursement systems. Hospitals can no longer bill public or private insurers for anything. Not one thin dime. Medicare no longer exists.
That won't be the end of medical care. Believe it or not, the people who run hospitals are adults. They will adapt to the new system; which is based upon four rules.

1. Medical Care may not be financed. Directly or Indirectly. You can't take out a loan to pay for your Dad's heart surgery.

2. Medical Care is strictly palliative. No heroic life saving measures. Just normal drugs, and minor surgeries.

3. Medical Care is offered on a best-effort basis. The Hospitals and Staff will have medical immunity. They can't be sued.

4. No foreign persons who are in the country illegally may enter a hospital, for any reason.

If we make these changes, a lot of good things will happen. To start, persons involved in the practice of medicine will no longer need a license. Anyone can call himself a doctor or a nurse. If a woman knows a lot about medicinal herbs, she can operate a clinic. There are no restrictions at all. People will learn to pay cash, and to look at medicine as a much more holistic experience. The government, and the corrupt F.D.A. money-machine will have nothing to do with it.

People will be free to do what they think is best.