MISGUIDED JOY OF THE MASSES
What are you all so happy about on social media? Are you overjoyed about the personification of your frustration with health insurance receiving “justice” for all your pain and suffering? Finally, SOMEBODY did something you didn’t have the courage to do and performed this ritual sacrifice of a hated CEO of a large corporation that denies coverage and claims to stay profitable…alleluia! Never mind the fact that Mr. Thompson was probably not personally involved in your medical woes and had a family that lost a husband and a father, etc. – what matters is that your misguided hatred of big corporations manifested itself in the most physical of ways. Mr. Thompson symbolized the faceless machine that deprives you and your loved ones of the treatment you all deserve, so he was your enemy, and the enemy now got his punishment, right?
ENTITLED ATTITUDE
All this whining and complaining about our healthcare industry comes from this misguided, irresponsible belief that somehow we are all ENTITLED to affordable healthcare! Surely, it would be nice to have HIGH QUALITY and AFFORDABLE healthcare, but what do you mean by “affordable”? Is that how much YOU are willing to pay your hospital or a doctor? YOU should determine the pricing? If YOU do that, then perhaps colonoscopy or heart surgery should cost $20 because that is all you can “afford” and then where will the hospital and the doctor get the remaining $29,980 that THEY deserve for their professional work? They will have to look to some SUCKERS who will be contributing to the insurance coverage A LOT MORE than you to compensate for your “affordable” contribution! How is that FAIR? Or maybe doctors should be forced to charge $20 for heart surgery? And who then would want to be a doctor? Did you think about that when you were yapping about the unfairness of our healthcare industry? In the real world, it is IMPOSSIBLE and not even FAIR that SOMEONE ELSE always ends up paying for you! And as long as someone else (no matter who – “rich people,” “taxpayers,” “healthy youngsters,” or anyone else) is paying for you, that makes YOU a parasite unless you EARNED your healthcare by contributing all your life with your taxes or otherwise and unless others pay for you voluntarily out of the goodness of their heart. Let’s hope you are not comfortable being a parasite and not comfortable with others being parasites at your expense!
This doesn’t mean that our healthcare industry is perfect: our healthcare industry is bureaucratic and cruel to everyone, even those who pay pretty hefty premiums, and let’s not forget that health insurance rates were much cheaper before ruinous Obamacare was imposed on us! However, the only alternative to a privately run healthcare industry and private insurance is government-run healthcare at taxpayer’s expense.
DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT-RUN SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE
Some dishonest anti-capitalist voices point to the “perfectly functional” government-run healthcare industry in Canada, England, Germany, and other European countries. However, they deliberately ignore discussions of all the dysfunctionality of the government-run socialist healthcare system! If you are now complaining about United Healthcare denying your claims, wait until you get a government bureaucrat reviewing your claims – not only would you get denied coverage for quality service, but you will also not have access to life-saving procedures even if you come up with the money to pay for it, and your life will be in danger with a government-run healthcare system! The delays in Europe are much longer than delays by our insurance industry, and most importantly, taxation in Europe is even more draconian than in the U.S., in part specifically because they squander the money robbed from taxpayers on this inefficient government-run socialist healthcare industry!
Yes, our healthcare industry needs serious reforms that would eliminate bureaucracy within insurance companies to make it a lot more consumer-friendly, reforms that would bring down the costs of treatment, costs of medical equipment, costs of running a hospital or a doctor’s office. However, this doesn’t mean our system is not the best available as compared to the inefficient bureaucratic government-run socialist healthcare industry in other countries.
Even now, the government steals the lion’s share of our money to invest in “social services,” “Medicare,” “medical” to cover healthcare for low-income or no-income parasitic individuals, and what is happening with all these resources? Waste, fraud, and abuse! How naïve do you have to be to trust the self-serving government to run your healthcare? At least private insurers are motivated by “greed” and so they have SOME motivation just like doctors who earn high incomes from their medical practice – what motivation would government bureaucrats have to provide you with quality medical services? None whatsoever! With private insurance, and private doctors and hospitals, you can at least pick and choose – and there is some competition – but with socialist government-run healthcare, you have no choice and you are stuck with horrible corrupt self-serving bureaucracy and unmotivated half-assing and incompetent medical “professionals” who couldn’t care less about your health!
Sometimes, we have to choose the lesser evil, and the current system is that – the lesser evil, and let’s be grateful that we at least have that.
ISSUE OF FAIRNESS
Also, let’s drop this sense of entitlement that medical treatment should be “affordable”: it’s not even FAIR! What is FAIR is when you get no more than what you paid for! That is FAIR – you get what you paid for and no more than that! Otherwise, you are stealing from someone else – just like those Obamacare recipients are stealing because somebody else has to subsidize these parasites’ healthcare! Why? Because Obama and his cronies decided that more affluent and healthier people should pay for their sicker and poorer counterparts with higher premiums! And what do they get in return? Nothing! Just more extortion from the low-budget people and self-serving bureaucrats!
And what about all those drug addicts and homeless thugs? Why should they be covered? Why should they get any medical service unless they pay for it out of their own pocket? What benefit did they provide to us as a society for us to subsidize their treatment and care?
The same applies to undocumented migrants – they are able-bodied proud individuals who came to the U.S. illegally to work and not get any free handouts from the government, so let them work, earn money, and pay for their healthcare – don’t corrupt them by offering them free medical coverage, they are not even asking for it! Waste, fraud, and abuse!
BRINGING PRICES DOWN BY CUTTING HEALTHCARE COSTS
Now, this brings us to the topic of cost-cutting to actually make healthcare pricing more reasonable. If we don’t provide medical services to homeless thugs, hardcore criminals, drug addicts, and undocumented migrants, we already will feel the reduction in costs, a tremendous reduction in costs!
Also, if we reduce labor costs of operating a hospital, change labor laws to make them a lot more employer and consumer-friendly, abolish nurse unions and regulations related to them, significantly reduce the bureaucratic regulations of the healthcare industry overall – we will bring down costs further.
If we allow foreign companies to freely compete with national ones to provide lower-priced and high-quality equipment and lower-priced and high-quality drugs, we bring down costs even more!
Finally, if we allow doctors to evade general education requirements that force them to study stuff they don’t need for several years before they get professional medical practitioner skills and cut to the chase in focusing on their specialty – doctors will owe much less for their education and will be able to charge lower prices. Lower prices will also be brought about by competition because exclusive licensing by each state should be eliminated, and doctors who got at least one license in one state should be able to practice medicine in all other states without any additional requirements and tests. Foreign doctors should also be welcome as long as foreign licensing boards have similar professional requirements to those of ours.
With all the above measures to lower the costs of healthcare, we will be getting high-quality healthcare at much lower prices, and there won’t be a need for any sacrificial eliminations of any CEOs!
CONCLUSION
We need to change our sense of entitlement about healthcare – there must be a deep realization that no one (not insurance companies, not the government, not more affluent people or taxpayers) should be obligated to provide it for us unless we are paying for it with our own money. For starters, this parasitic attitude of entitlement must be eliminated, and in its place, we must promote self-sufficiency!
Once we do that, we will feel morally liberated to make others self-sufficient too and cut various bloodsucking groups of parasites off our healthcare resources – if they do nothing beneficial for society, they don’t deserve any free help from society, period! And if they are not parasites, like, for example, hardworking undocumented migrants – they don’t need to be getting any free services at taxpayer expense, they should be able to afford to pay for their treatment themselves, especially considering their lack of trust in our healthcare system and frequent visits to Mexico or Guatemala for lower-priced and better-quality treatment!
We should also discredit and expose all the lies about the benefits of the socialist system, including government-run healthcare – it never worked anywhere and is only making things worse, depriving consumers of any choices, bringing down the quality of service, and putting us all in danger.
With some significant cost-cutting and a complete rejection of government involvement, we should be able to reform our healthcare system to make it high quality, streamlined, and reasonably priced for those who qualify, and have no sense of anger or guilt about denying “affordable” quality healthcare to those who don’t qualify for it!
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