Nationalized Health Care--Not What it Appears to Be

President Barack Obama has been pushing forward his plans to overhaul the nation's health care system this past week. He was speaking to the American Medical Association earlier this week explaining to them the need to quickly overhaul our nation's health care system. He wants to push nationalized health care through Congress very quickly. He stated he wanted to use the savings from Medicaid and Medicare over the next ten years to pay for national health care.

Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf stated that the costs for Obama's health care proposal could run up to $1 trillion dollars and still 37 million people could be uninsured. If we pass a nationalized health care program as in other countries such as Sweden, Cuba, and Canada for example, we will have rationing of health care as well as long lines of patients waiting to receive medical treatment. It's true that Medicare and Medicaid are an inefficient bureaucracy, but making the government responsible for insuring the nation's health care coverage will be very bloated, costly and inefficient.

What needs to be done to Medicare and Medicaid to reduce costs are to limit medical malpractice awards as well as limit the type of liability lawsuits that can be filed. There's a lot of fraud and waste in our health care system along with many trial lawyers making a fortune of all these liability lawsuits. If we would limit some of these medical malpractice lawsuits, that would reduce health care costs along with eliminating frivolous spending.

If you take a look at the U.S. government's track record of utilizing taxpayer dollars, it's evident they're wasteful with our money. Take a look at Social Security. No sane person would ever invest in an IRA in which you would invest more into it than what you would receive from it. That's the way it is with Social Security. You will not reap the dividends from all that you invest into Social Security. It would be no different with nationalized health care. There would be such massive fraud and abuse with national health care that our country would go totally bankrupt in a very short period of time.

A question that needs to be asked is how are we going to fund all this? With so many Americans being unemployed since the mortgage meltdown last September, there won't be enough taxpayers to fund this program. There's only a minority of rich people and they'll find loopholes to not have to pay taxes on health care. Also, since the signing of free trade agreements such as NAFTA in 1994 and CAFTA in 2005 which has resulted in the exporting of millions of manufacturing jobs overseas, we don't have a sufficient number of decent paying jobs in which there would be sufficient revenue to cover national health care. It's ludicrous!

What will happen is we will have government playing God and making rules to determine who are deemed worthy to receive medical treatment and those who aren't. The view that the medical establishment has held for centuries that all human life is sacred and worth saving and protecting will be thrown out the window if this plan is passed. We have a government that's turning into a fascist dicatorship who hold a humanistic view that life is expendable and isn't sacred in the eyes of God. The government already believes the life of the unborn isn't worth protecting. It's going to eventually be that way with any human being at any stage of life. Man will be of no more value than a blade of grass.