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Somehow I’ve avoided writing this, but boredom has finally gotten the better of me and I decided I would outline my stance on the healthcare situation as it is.

Our leadership globally in medical technology is driven in today’s context by some very simple mechanisms. Greed and ego. The top practitioners are driven by their own egos and their own desire for the high salaries that can be attained in the medical field. If you take away all ability for doctors to make the living that attracted them to the field, they will (and already are) leave the field to move on to another more profitable venture. For the number of years, effort and expense it takes to get through medical school, it simply will not pay to bother.

Currently, the state of the government meddling in the medical coverage arena already drives many practitioners away from giving care to those who most need it. The governmental fraud that is practiced against the physicians is incredible. Essentially under our current system, a doctor that is foolhardy enough to give care to individuals on government assistance will be fleeced when it comes to recovering their expenses. The government essentially steals the services of the physicians who remain in the service of patients on assistance. This has obviously drastically dropped the level of quality in choice of practitioners for those on assistance.

Rather than having a fair and equitable system in place to compensate physicians for their time and services, the government reaches deep into their pockets and steals from them in return for the favor of public service.

When the government finally puts all of the middle class on the dole, the level of care for all of ‘us’ will be dropped to the current levels of free clinic care. So not only will the level of care that the average American receives drop drastically, but the insane burden that will be placed on the clinic system will destroy it. My prediction is there will be an immediate flight from the system by the few remaining physicians that are currently willing to participate. We will be left with the worst of the worst. Physicians with training so poor that they cannot create a specialized practice of their own. Physicians that are so undesirable that they cannot attain a staff position in a hospital.

Currently most of us have a benefits package through our employers. Over the last three years alone my own contribution has been increased by several hundred dollars per month. The burden on our employers has been increased exponentially as well. So I am already inside-out on my salary simply due to healthcare coverage increases that weren’t offset by wage increases. Add to that the ever increasing tax burden for living in the kingdom that NJ has become and the pool of money at the end of the month is nearly dried up.

Once the Marxist social medicine system is slammed down on our society, all of our employers will instantly drop coverage for their employees. If there is no reason for them to continue to provide coverage as an incentive for employment, you can believe they will immediately stop their contributions. Do you all think for one second that your employer will then turn around and give YOU that money? No way, it will instantly be absorbed by their bottom line. That leaves us all stuck in the lines at the clinics….unless.

Once we have all been banished to the local free clinics for care, people will realize that going into these drug infested neighborhoods is a dangerous proposition for our families. It is plainly unsafe. At the very least we will be subject to having our vehicles vandalized and very likely much more serious crimes. To avoid this, we will need to scramble and attain our own private insurance coverage so that we can maintain the level of healthcare to which we have been accustomed.

Guess what? The cost of care, particularly when you have the magic money disappearing machine of our federal government handling it, will be astronomical. So all of the cost we currently carry and much more will still have to be paid into the kitty. In order to attain our ‘good old’ level of coverage, we will all now have to pay TWICE. Once in the insane tax burden that is levied to pay for the dole and again for our own private coverage.

Currently, if the tax burden goes up another $500 per month, I will be left at a zero balance. That will leave me with no spare money to get my own insurance coverage. That will place my family and me in line with undocumented criminals and their broods in the most crime ridden, crack infested areas possible just to get basic medical care.

The level of care will be far inferior to what we are used to now thereby lowering quality of life and even life expectancy. People in general will be less inclined to pursue even basic wellness care lest they have to be exposed to the hoardes of undocumented and other criminals in the public clinics.

This is what the new reality will be. Our government has not once in recent history initiated any program on time, on budget and delivering what was promised. There will be no possible way that they handle healthcare in even a close approximation of what they represent the plan to be.

On the technology side, the only thing that funds and motivates research is profit. Our government does relatively nothing at all to advance medical or any other health and welfare related scientific research, so that burden is left to the private sector. Once you have the government controlling the entirety of the healthcare system, there will be no more profit motive for all of the private sector businesses that currently support the research needed to advance medical technology. The only money that will flow is into projects related to national security or defense.

There will be no reason at all for the government to find a cure for more common ailments. If they reduce their own costs with a cure, they will in turn reduce their own revenue flow. Our government has never in recent history done anything to reduce its source of revenue….our taxes. Sure they may rearrange the accounting, but in the end, the numbers just continue to increase. It is against the very foundation of the state of our current system. It is not in the best interests of the system itself to self-destruct or limit its growth.

The utter collapse of the domestic healthcare sector, the pharmaceutical companies and all of their related technology and research branches is nearly guaranteed. This will further drive all engineering work off shore and further into the economies of other nations. The employment impact alone on our economy will be massive.

Why oh why a huge number of people think this is the way to go is just beyond my comprehension. Are you all willing to completely lower yourselves into the third world so a bunch of undocumented criminals can have a better life? Do you all really believe that our government is capable of doing anything that is truly in the interests of the people? Is it simply that the general public is this ignorant? I think so.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. — ALBERT CAMUS, Between Hell and Reason

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money
— Alexis de Tocqueville

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