The Free Market and Medicare.

Did you know President Barrack Obama praised the Mayo Clinic as an example of ingenuity and quality  when it comes to health care?  If you have followed the health care debacle this year then you heard him say that they, ““the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.”   The tone was that the Mayo Clinic is an example, because their level of service and overall health care is top-notch, yet the cost of such services is well below the national average facing the rest of the nation.  The insinuation is that the Mayo Clinic along with the Cleveland Clinic serve as proof that health care cost across the country are to high, and I think only  a select few who would argue against this.

This proof of the need for more affordable health care, such as it is, is  given to nudge the American people into supporting the idea that the federal government has to get involved to find a solution. Not only is their involvement necessary. Pieces of legislation exceeding 2,000+ pages reveal this is a complete re-write of the health care system.  Of course this involvement and complete re-write is purely for the public good, it is to make sure all Americans could get the same services at the same cost; not just the ones who have health insurance, but also all those  forced into health insurance system and those without means to buy insurance on their own.  I would love to get into more about  EVERYTHING that is wrong with the idea of the government’s involvement in the free market and in health care in general, but alas I have not the time.

It is true, the cost of health care has risen quickly over the past few decades, but it is also hard to dispute that The United States of America has one of, if not the very best health care available in the world!   If Americans wanted the cheaper health care offered by other countries you would see massive droves of people driving across the borders into Mexico and Canada.  In some cases, the cost of the health care provided in other countries is so much lower than the price of the service offered in The United States that you can pay for a plan ticket and take a mini vacation to receive the needed health services.  While it is true there are some who have flown to other countries to take advantage of lower medical care  prices, Americans have chosen by the majority to receive medical care inside the US.

A simple explanation of the benefit of a free market based health care reform

I found a great little video, and I will post it later, about the need for health care reform that focuses on free market principles.   This is a great example of how I feel about the health care debate.  It comes across with a nice respectful voice.   It inspired me to wanna talk about health care reform and the tone it should take, or more accurately the direction I feel it should not take.  Unfortunately all the major health care bills being proposed are headed in the direction of adding more spending in Washington D. C.

I have talked on our show several times about the impending doom that awaits this country, if we do not curtail and cease adding to our national debt.  I believe that if  ever there was an emergency in Washington, and that has been claimed a number of times already in this short year alone, that it is the National Debt. It is out of control and anyone who says otherwise does themselves and this country a great disservice.  I have said and I will say again,  I feel the national debt is perhaps the single greatest threat that America faces.

Has anyone stopped to consider that health care might be in the mess it is because of the government share of health care which is over 60%, and all the regulations it has put in place over the remaining 40%?