Healthcare

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Healthcare in America is the envy of the world. Why? Because we have, up until now, allowed the free market to constantly innovate and provide medical advances.

For example, pharmaceuticals require tremendous amounts of research and development. There is also testing, and trials which can add years to the release of a new drug. Nevertheless, since we have allowed the free market to set the pricing, this has allowed the innovators to recoup their investments, with the promise of future profits from successful products.

This profit motive is the magic of capitalism. It allows promise of future returns on investments of capital today.

Similarly, Doctors have invested time and capital in themselves, with the promise of future returns on their investment. They then established hospitals and medical centers where they could pool their talents and services. This had the effect of promoting better health, which then extended to lengthening lifespans.

Those who benefited from these advances in medical care were grateful, and often invested their fortunes in the hospitals, in order to help others receive better care as well. These endowments often became the catalyst to establish foundations and hospitals which were dedicated to finding cures for certain diseases, or for groups of people. St. Judes, The Shriners, and The American Cancer Society are but a small example of some fine organizations which have made a tremendous contribution to advancements in our healthcare.

Now we have our Government trying to take over our healthcare system. Under the guise of "Healthcare Reform" these purportedly well-meaning people think that the government can do a better job of advancing medicines and healthcare than can be done by the private sector. This is impossible, because without a profit motive, and with the natural inclination for government regulations, it can only lead to a nightmare of catastrophic proportions.

We are on the path to becoming like Canada, Europe, Cuba, and other countries that have "universal healthcare", with long waiting lists, death panels, rampant black markets, corruption, and reduced quality of care, induced by the lack of doctors willing to work under such conditions.

My point is that President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and all the other Marxists who are taking our country sharply to the Left, need to be stopped. If their efforts to nationalize Healthcare succeed, it will only result in the failure of our country. Accompanied by the other moves to take over banking, the auto industry, real estate, and provide "stimulus" funding for support of more government programs, we find ourselves at a crossroads.

If the American people don't wake up soon, and start fighting this takeover. our Constitution will be rendered useless, and our once-great country will become much like the rest of the world. Mediocrity will abound. Suffering and death will become the norm, and we will long for the "good old days" when things were so much better.

This is all about CONTROL and POWER. We all need to fight this evil takeover, or our children and grandchildren will ask why we didn't.