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Posted on 08/09/2009 12:55:37 PM PDT by 51773photo
President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are rushing to enact legislation that would overhaul the way health care is financed and delivered in the United States.
It would dramatically increase the role of government in virtually all aspects of health care.
Such an initiative should be carefully studied to determine whether it actually solves problems in the health care arena or makes them worse.
National health plans similar to what President Obama is proposing have been adopted in other countries.
They always start out promising universal access and free or reduced-price health care. But they end up with massive institutional bureaucracies whose purpose and function are to deny health care and medical services.
Often they fail to control spending despite resorting to withholding care to politically weak groups.
President Obama insists that his plan to fundamentally restructure health care is needed to reduce costs. He has touted a report from his Council of Economic Advisors that specifies exactly how that would be done.
That report, however, elaborates a policy of thorough government health care rationing achieved through government control of the financing and delivery of care.
This study will explain how the health policy changes President Obama and Congressional Democrats support would cause millions of Americans to lose their choice of doctors and insurance coverage, require that access to care be strictly rationed, and cause the quality of care to deteriorate.
Despite all this sacrifice, nationalizing health insurance in America would require major tax increases, slow economic growth, and increase the national debt.
(Excerpt) Read more at barrysobamanation.com ...
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