Why Health Care Reform is Bad for Your Health

The Schwarz Report ^ | September, 2009 | Dr. Michael Bauman

[conservativegramma]

The president says he wants to control health care costs, on the one hand, and to bring millions upon millions of new persons into the health care system, on the other. Seen together, the president’s goals are contradictory and mutually exclusive. Here’s why: If you intend to introduce tens of millions of new health care consumers into the system, then the demand for health care products and services will rise dramatically. When demand rises dramatically, prices rise dramatically as well. If the president wants to achieve his first goal, that of reducing health care costs, then achieving his second goal will make it impossible. What his left hand gives, his other left hand takes away.

When the government tries to control health care costs, the consequence for health care providers like drug companies, medical instrument manufacturers, and doctors, is to drive some of them out of health care altogether. That is, if Washington restricts the profits of health care providers, some of those providers will re-allocate their quite considerable investments in directions away from health care, to places where government interference does not hinder or limit their financial success. They simply leave. In the wake of the coming state-induced exodus from the tyranny of price controls, fewer health care providers can or will remain. Fewer providers mean fewer products and fewer services. In your very first economics lesson, you’ll recall, you learned that when the supply of a thing goes down, its price goes up. In other words, the president’s program to control health care costs will produce the opposite result. I promise you, health care after the president’s reform goes into effect will not be cheaper than it is today. Health care after his reform will be more expensive than ever.

Count on it; plan for it.

[charlie72]

Obamacare is a smokescreen. Lenin said that to control a country you must control health care. Like Alan Keyes tried to tell the country, Obama is a radical communist. He must bring us totally down to institute his agenda. Sovereignty (the Constitution is already trashed) will no longer exist when he forces us to join the NAU in January 2010. Before that the dollar will crash. He is a tool of world financiers, commies and Muslims.

[ResponseAbility]

Nationalized healthcare will also give the government impetus to ban lots of things because they are dangerous and “costs X dollars a year in taxes. Say goodbye to guns, knives, 4-wheeling, mountain hiking/biking and whatever else the enviros and commies want to ban at will.