Why health care reform won’t work! An honest look.

The country is so scattered on the health care issue. I am so tired of every news network spinning it to seem like it is the problem that is plaguing America at every turn. Ever since President Obama took office he has made it his goal to reform the system, but looking deeper what exactly is he trying to reform? At a glance we need to define some terms here, we don’t have a health care problem… our health care is for better or worse excellent. We have great advancements in medicine and medical practice, I am the first to admit it’s not perfect but if you are sick there are treatments. Taking that into consideration and redefining the terms, we don’t have a health care problem, we have a health cost problem. Our issue is not with quality, it is with price. That simple understanding moves this from a medical and government issue to an economics issue. With that said, what is the answer?
<!–more–>Well first and foremost getting government out of the entire process is crucial. Government subsidizes the system which causes prices to skyrocket. Government intervention and meddling with insurance agencies is the reason prices are through the roof! They are hindering free market forces, not encouraging them. If there was true competition between agencies we would see prices decrease country wide.

Speaking of country wide and government intervention… why is it that if I am shopping for insurance and I find a great policy from a smaller agency in Montana it is illegal for me to purchase it? That’s right, I cannot cross state borders. Why? The government said so. What a great little corporatism we have going on. Government setting laws to help exploit citizens. Forcing them to buy insurance they may not want. That leads me to another issue, I am a 26 year old guy, do I really need my policy to cover pregnancy? What about other illnesses I don’t have a history of? I am being forced to buy into plans that cover me and 80% of things I will never need coverage on.

So what do we see here, we see that we need to let the free market reign. Deregulate the system and stop government subsidy. Let people buy insurance at their ease. Insurance shouldn’t be tied to jobs, it should be something you sign up for and it moves with you. Following some of these simple ideas coupled with tax deduction of emergency care and we might see a great turn around. Government intervention must be avoided at all cost. Government can’t micro-manage anything and that won’t change with health care. If and when Obamacare becomes policy we will quickly see the destruction of American currency. Inflation will explode at an out of control rate. Simple economics states that the more of something we have, the less valuable it is. Such is the case with currency. We simply can’t afford it. You can’t “lower taxes” and spend more money. It doesn’t make sense.

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