Universal Health Care equals Terrible Care

I just read a real common sensical article from the Wall Street Journal that really shines the light of truth on all this talk from Democrats Hilliary Clinton and Barack Obama on Universal Health Care.  The article's main point is that the United States Government is not involved in the purchase of auto insurance, homeowners insurance, renters insurance, life insurance, long-term-care insurance or dental insurance, so why should government be involved in the purchase of my health insurance?

The article asks a great question, why is government involved in the insurance business to begin with? The insurance programs already controlled by the US Government (Medicare and Medicaid) have done nothing but dramatically increase the actual the cost of health care to the level that the average person now has trouble affording decent health care coverage. Prior to government getting in the insurance business, people could afford excellent health care and health insurance plans.  The article makes another great point in:

"But all the unfunded mandates now imposed have to be funded from some-one's pocket, and it turns out to be the same people who now can no longer afford coverage for themselves and their families."

It's so typical of government that the same people that have caused the health care problem are now trying to fix it with the same answer that caused the problem in the first place.   Universal Health Care will simply not work.  The solution is simple, get the government out of the insurance business and let people buy their own coverage from private companies.  Giving the responsibility of a person's own health back to the actual person is the answer to stop the out of control health care costs. 

The article has some great statistics: "In 2006, the nation's health-care bill was more than $2 trillion. That's an average of $7,026 for every person; a 6.7% increase in costs, which is well over the rate of inflation. Most of these costs come from just 10% of the population. These people account for over 60% of the health-care costs.  Health economist Jack Rodgers says that we are on a path to the government being a larger and larger payer for health care . . . and in the long term, that means being the majority payer. Currently, federal, state and local governments already pay 47% of the nation's health-care costs. And if we keep this up, the government's share will be more than half by 2017."

One can take a look at other nations who have tried Universal Health Care like Canada, most of Europe, etc. and see how awful those systems are.  When a Canadian needs to have a major surgery they come to the United States to receive care when they can because a free market system creates the best health care. 

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