Wry Catcher
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So you can not read. Then there is no hope.
And this thread is useless. For it seems you have made it for others to come in and praise the Obama Tax for something it will not do; lower healthcare costs. (It was implied that the costs my stabalize and already out of control double digit annual increase, but that is not my major interest) It will not do this because taxation does not lower cost expectancies and State intervention into the sectors does in fact, increase costs drastically.
What I believe will decrease costs and human misery is univesal preventative health care.
I put it down for you one more time in the words of Murray Rothbard:
Murray RothbardOur very real medical crisis has been the product of massive government intervention, state and federal, throughout the century; in particular, an artificial boosting of demand coupled with an artificial restriction of supply. The result has been accelerating high prices and deterioration of patient care. And next, socialized medicine could easily bring us to the vaunted medical status of the Soviet Union: everyone has the right to free medical care, but there is, in effect, no medicine and no care.
What Rothbard purports is little more than an opinion and her conclusion is based on what happened in a culture much much different than our own.
I have opined many times my belief that Universal PREVENTATIVE health care, from cradle to grave, will reduce the overall cost to our nation if provided to every citizen. That does not mean socialized medicine.
My vision is a public-private sector consortium where the basics of preventative medicine are provided for low or no cost to every citizen. Basics would include inoculations, physicals on age appropriate schedules, health education to stop smoking, abusing alcohol or other drugs, screening for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart, vascular and other chronic and controllable disease. Parenting classes, Sexual Education Classes and Family Planning.