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Yes, but you have no right to go see someone to cure you that claims to be a doctor that hasn't gotten a degree from an "accredited licensed medical school."
We don't have, nor will we have a free market as long as there is licensing of doctors, as long as the FDA can put it's seal of approval on what is a cure and what isn't a cure, and as long as "accredited" medical schools are the ones that are given government approval.
What we have now is cronyism.
Folks get arrested and thrown in jail for selling cancer "cures" w/o FDA approval. It is insane the shit the allopathic chemical industry will go through to maintain it's monopoly on health care.
Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine – All The Way
I trust the the free market to provide me with the best products at the lowest possible price a lot more than I trust some corrupt politician elected by special interest groups, don't you? Do you really trust the filthy ass government? If you do then you are very naive if not downright stupid.
No government bureaucrat is ever going to have my best interest at heart. Their only incentive is to keep their job, not provide good services. That is why even though I have earned it I do not get free medical care thought the VA. Health care is too important to trust to a government shithead. If you don't believe me just ask the veterans that have died waiting for government treatment. Oh wait, you can't ask them. They are dead.
I trust somebody trying to compete in a free market with competition to provide the best services a lot more than somebody like Maxine Waters, don't you?
Can you imagine what it would be like for the government to control restaurants like they control health care? The would mandate you to eat out. They would set the price of the food. They would set the menu. They would tell you how much you could eat. They would tax you for it. They would require that you paid more for the meal so that the welfare queens and illegal aliens could eat free. It would be a disaster just like it is with the filthy ass government mandating the same things with health care.
I agree with you.
But that is what I am trying to tell you. As it stands now, that is what caused this problem, we don't have a "free market." We haven't had one since be for the turn of the 20th century. Ever since the government mandated that nobody could treat you or "cure" you unless the government licensed them, and no product could claim to treat you unless it was approved by the government, costs have spiraled. THAT is what I am getting at.
The cause of sky rocketing healthcare costs has BEEN the government. We don't have a "free market." Your treatment options are limited, and you don't even realize it. Because you are a wealthy individual, YOU have options. The poor however, have none. If there were no government controls, the poor would have options.
What are the option for the poor who have no money?
It's called charity. You look for it, you ask for it, and if it doesn't come, you suffer.
That is the nature of being poor. After suffering several major health tragedies, I should know, I am. I don't expect anything, but to die of either health related reasons, or starvation at any point in time in the future. THAT is the nature of being poor. You don't expect anything of anyone that you haven't earned. That is the nature of fate and the very definition of how charity works brother.
Healthcare is not a right, it never has been. It has traditionally been the province of religious institutions to offer care. Why do you think so many hospitals were named after saints? That is because the Catholic Church, up until the insurance industry got into bed with government during the Nixon administration, was the one that took care of the poor.
So did local communities. In fact, when ever someone in my rural district comes down with cancer or a chronic illness, the whole town knows, jars appear on the counter with their picture asking for donations.
And to top that all off, if it weren't for this collusion between the government, the insurance industry, big pharma, and the foundations supporting medical schools causing market in-elasticity in medical costs, the price of medical care would not be so out of reach for even the middle class.
Most folks just don't understand crony capitalism, nor how both parties have caused elites on Wall-street and in D.C. to rob the middle class and poor of their wealth and destroy the free market. They actually have them convinced, that they can continue to use these nefarious methods, and then, later when they have no purchasing power left, and no decent jobs left, throw them insignificant bones like controlling their life with government medical insurance, government provided food, and a minimum wage.
Hell, why not throw the whole damn population into one massive prison right now, like North Korea and save us all the time.
Oh yeah, I know why, b/c the really stupid ones might just catch on. . . . .
North Korea has free Health Care. North Korea has free food. North Korea has free housing. North Korea has guaranteed minimum pay.
But then. . . . everyone but the select are poor then, aren't they?
Liberty and Prosperity or Security and Poverty . . . . . which will it be?