What it needs is an enema.
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I once read that the British NHS is the second-largest civilian employer in the world. Behind only the Indian railroad system.
The health care sector is becoming an ever-larger part of modern economies.
An army of ants can’t carry an elephant.
An army of economic ants can’t carry an economic elephant.
At some point, the growing health care sector must become a net tax contributor and not a tax eater.
BNHS = Socialism
I favor fighting for middle-class real property tax and income tax caps in both the state and federal constitutions. We need a ‘wall’ around what is ours. Legal walls are cheaper than concrete and steel walls.
There has got to be a solution for this mess...
How about individuals in government have minimum pay, no benefits, and go back to a job not in politics after 2-4 years?
I know this, "The government that got us in this terrible mess we are in is not the government that will get us out of it." It has neither the means or the will to do that. Furthermore, the enemy has figured out how to use the latitude and liberty of the Constitution to destroy the Constitution. Who wants a governing document that has enough loop holes to drive a truck through and has the mechanisms in place to destroy it from within? Not a rational seeing person and certainly anyone who wants to manipulate it to their own agenda. Free speech allows anything except yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, any point of view at all can be promoted. It may represent the ultimate in liberty but it is also has been perverted to become the ultimate in what has become the fostering of anarchy, lawlessness, lawfare and the rights of our enemies and what amounts to legal treason and sedition. Now, somehow tyranny is actually upon us.
What happened to treason and sedition? Aren't they now hiding in plain sight behind the mask of free speech and elections? Don't the residents of Detroit have the right to vote to select a Muslim based government? Yes, they do. Don't the sheeple have the right to elect a declared communist as president? Yes, they do. Do they have the right to elect representatives that can change our form of government, if not in fact then by deed? Yes, they do.
If you don't see tyranny alive and well you only need to look as far as the EPA's roughshod regulations or any one of a number of defacto proclamations from the white house of these last couple of decades. Covid anyone?
Sustaining the form of government some of us want to preserve can only be done by an informed, intelligent, moral and ethical electorate of one mind and purpose. The foundations of corrupting founding principles is in the violation of community standards by legal interpretation and decree. Did a majority want to eliminate prayer from schools? No. Why did it happen then? A judge decided we could not violate the rights of those who opposed it and the greater good was in eliminating it. What was done was "legal" under the Constitution. Gerrymandering the illegal alien invasion is actually legal. The refugee and asylum agreement law makers and the administration signed "allows" it. The care and feeding of this hoard is actually mandated by the agreement.
Just about every warning of the founders, DeToqueville, Jefferson, Franklin and others has come true now. "A Republic if you can keep it." "Self-government without self-control will not work." They knew that the Constitution, taken to extreme, manipulated and abused could be used to destroy the Constitution. I believe that in practice, it has.
“In England, an integrated care system (ICS) is a statutory partnership of organisations who plan, buy, and provide health and care services in their geographical area. The organisations involved include the NHS, local authorities, voluntary and charity groups, and independent care providers. The NHS Long Term Plan of January 2019 called for the whole of England to be covered by ICSs by April 2021. On 1 July 2022, ICSs replaced clinical commissioning groups in England.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_care_system
Yes, we are overwhelmed:
https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/
Yes, we are trying to do too much:
https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/Improving-Lives-Together-Shared-Delivery-Plan.pdf
In my youth, BC/BS coverage paid most of the inpatient hospital bills and enough money to the surgeons to cover their fixed costs so they would show up for surgery.
It did not pay for drugs or doctor visits.
If I needed to see a doctor, my mom wrote a check afterward.
If I needed a prescription drug, my mom paid in cash.
We have a two-tier economy, one supported by market forces (McDonald’s, grocery stores, etc.) and another mainly supported by government force (most schools and almost all hospitals).
Obviously, we should try to rein in the use of government economic force.
In the 1960s, human medical care providers and drug companies were mainly in the market force economy.
What can be provided by an individual or small business should be primarily be provided via a market-based system.
Silly folks still think we can vote our way out of this crapshow.
For many years, tuition costs at colleges and universities have been exploding, and I mean absolutely exploding while academics have been obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth. The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical Left, and we will do that.
Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system. It’s called accreditation for a reason.
The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but they have failed totally. When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.
We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all.
These standards will include defending the American tradition and Western civilization, protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs incredibly, removing all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats, offering options for accelerated and low-cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and implementing college entrance and exit exams to prove that students are actually learning and getting their money’s worth.
Furthermore, I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination. And schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowment taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.
A portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies that hurt our country so badly. Colleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers and now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all.
We are going to have real education in America.
Atlas Shrugged