Wednesday, August 26, 2020

What Democrats Want, Day 69, Countdown to Oblivion? HEALTHCARE, PART 1


As of today, there are 69 days until the most consequential election in American history. This is what they say about many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power – control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will disappear into the shadows of history.

The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. Never again will the demonic Democratic Party relinquish its grip on political power and control of the masses.

Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is one in a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election scheduled for November 3, 2020.

Government Run Healthcare versus Free Market Healthcare

Here is another area where there is a wide chasm between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party approach to healthcare provision.

Some of the following initial comments below are based on the narrative that accompanied a petition that Americans for Prosperity (AFP) posted recently and which I signed. 

Government Controlled Healthcare

We must act now to stop the growing push for more government control of healthcare. This includes educating ourselves on the healthcare issue and researching the candidates and political party which best align with our personal beliefs, needs and interests. Then we must vote against any and all Democrats for any position in the upcoming General Election.

You can call it public option, Medicare-for-all, or something else, a government-run system means one-size-fits-all healthcare. This government run healthcare would put Washington, D.C. pencil-pushing bureaucrats and not the individual in charge or his or her physician and other medical professional.  Government run healthcare takes choice out of the equation.

Free-Market Controlled Healthcare

The Republican Party favors a non-centralized, free-market approach to healthcare. Like offering school choice for parents, the Republicans think that the free market does a better job of providing fair, efficient, quality healthcare services.

America needs to reimagine healthcare so that the individual citizen gets to choose and control what he or she wants, can afford, and the level quality level the individual deserves from the medical profession they trust. If the healthcare industry, including the insurance industry, were allowed more freedom to innovate and provide what the consumer wants, then we would have an improved healthcare system.

Allowing healthcare insurance to be sold across state lines would bring more competition into the marketplace, giving citizens more choices and allows them to customize their insurance plans.

The bottom line is let's put our trust in the physicians, nurses, researchers, and patients, not in Washington to solve our healthcare challenges.

Big Pharma

Whenever there are limited number of competitors in any business, those entities have money to spend in lobbying efforts to garner advantage for their company or industry.  A recent example is the attempt by government agencies to limit or ban the use of an inexpensive hydroxychloroquine medication for treatment of the Communist Chinese coronavirus. Why is this medication targeted and more expensive medications pushed as authorized or approved prescriptions? There may be some underlying forces within the medical, government and industry working against sound economical approaches to treating COVID-19.  Perhaps Congress needs to investigate this area.  Something is not right, and it hurts the overall healthcare available for American citizens.

I would not advocate government taking over the pharmaceutical industry, but perhaps breaking up some of the mega corporations if unscrupulous practices were discovered that would justify needed monopoly busting actions.

In addition, maybe the government could encourage smaller companies to bring back production of medications which have been given to Communist China. This plannedemic has exposed America’s vulnerability and dependence on China for some necessities. We need to move toward independence.

More

Tomorrow we will continue to look at the contrast between the Democrats and Republicans regarding the healthcare issue.  

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