Just a gut feeling my FRiend!
He has been passionate in his defense of medical issues, and is a real Dr. of medicine. He has argued passionately in favor of stem cell research and development. I recall no mention of the rights of the donor. (all pro life/choice BS aside)
These two facts, together with the words and actions that I have heard and seen on the floor have indicated to me, at least, that he is a supporter of anything that helps to mitigate human suffering.
There is so much suffering that humans experience throughout their lives. Government should not be given the task of mitigating medically caused suffering, nor should medicine be more than a monetary consideration when it comes to the federal budget.
Frist's passionate defense of stem cell research and other enterprises, makes me believe that these issues will quickly hit the floor of the Senate and take a more important position in the federal budget.
I commend Frist's efforts on behalf of humanity, but I differ with him that government can or should be the arbiter and distribution mechanism for medical treatments and disease eradication.
Government has a role, but not the role of administration of medical services. Government can fund needed research and education, but not the delivery system.
Frist seems to disagree, and seems to advocate a much larger government footprint. Especially regarding AIDS and other communicable diseases.
This opens up government as the primary care provider. We cannot let this happen!
We cannot allow government to assume responsibility for providing medical care.
Frist, in his advocacy of this issue, will eventually make socialized medicine a reality in the United states. He seems to believe that government can make it all better.
This is what I believe he represents, and therefore advocates. He wants to do more through government and is not objective enough on this issue.
We cannot afford the dollar cost of this ideal, nor can we afford to fund anything major, other than research and development.
In my opinion, Frist believes that government should have a much larger role. I get this feeling from observing him over the past two years. He is quite consistent and readable. He will now be in the catbird seat to bring this agenda to the Senate. They will be reluctant to vote against these issues. Any issue that saves even a single human life is difficult to vote against! Trent lott just discovered that voting against a federal holiday for a black man was political suicide. I wonder how the history re-writers will view national free medical care.
Socialized medicine will become the norm as a result. We are simply following the trends in Europe,(they will say) as another mandate is assumed by government.
This time it will not be the fault of States not doing their job. It will be the fault of democrats who failed to hold on to their issue as republicans take it away and institute government controlled national medicine in one signature by Bush and less than one year of debate.
This one single issue w3ill transfer a huge chunk of what little we have left to call our industrial base.
We will be finished as a world leader in any area or any profession. We will be totally de-balled and rendered impotent. Our only claim to fame will be as a consumer of goods and services. We will be no beater than any one else. We will be totally globalized.
We will be the Union of the Socialist United States of America. And, we will be so in debt that nobody will invest. We will be no better tan France. Germany. Italy, or anyone else. The soviets will actually win this war of attrition and China will have us by the nads!
Life here will be no different than anywhere else. Globalization and the eventual "one world government" will be a reality.
I suppose I could just say, screw it, because I will have died and gone beyond when this bull-crap finally comes full circle. The re-writing of our Constitution will have occurred, and government will have assume it's place as the responsible entity for everything but balancing our checkbooks! And, even that will have a pamphlet dedicated to it. After they have disarmed us, and made us see the light, they will have total and un-mitigated control over each and every one of us!
This is why Lott had to go!
He was standing in the way of progress! I may be wrong, but Frist is just too liberal to TAKE lOTTS PLACE AT THE GATE OF REFORM.