Why Government Healthcare won't help you.

I become increasingly disturbed when I see how many people are willing to except lies about Government Health care, even when the failure of things like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are right in front of their noses.

Many people in the country have come under the impression that health care is a right. Let me first explain what a right is. A RIGHT is something that cannot, again I say CANNOT be denied of you. In every country in the world where socialized medicine has taken hold there has been rationing of care. The government will have to cut spending on whatever care they determine "not needed." This is the government, not you, that is deciding what you need cared for. So if a citizen with stage 4 cancer is looking far coverage for treatment and the government has cut that coverage to decrease spending because that citizen will "die anyway", that is the government denying that care, therefore making it NOT a right if it is able to be denied.

Some may say that it doesn't matter because Health insurance is too expensive anyway. That is because of government regulation. Very cheap insurance plans don't exist because the government mandates companies have to cover certain care, even if the consumer doesn't want it in his or her plan. Also, because the government requires, by law, that even those with no money to pay for care or no insurance, must be treated. This makes hospitals and doctors use equipment and materials that they are not being payed for. This makes the hospitals raise prices to compensate for this. This means insurance companies must pay hospitals more, which in turn makes insurance more expensive.

Some still may say that they cannot receive health insurance when they have lost their job. Again, blame the government. When someone loses their job you will notice that home owner's insurance, car insurance, food, computers, clocks, radios, chairs, and other things not regulated heavily by the government are still obtainable. It is the government that punishes people who don't get their insurance through their employer. The government does this through the tax code by denying people the tax deduction for health insurance that employers receive. Federal tax incentives also contribute to the world where many get their health insurance through employers.

One other thing is that the government does not allow purchasing of health insurance outside of the state you live in. This absolutely destroys the consumer's ability to say "You charge to much, I'm taking my business elsewhere." It also stops from what some people call "the free market" or sometimes I've heard it called "Capitalism."

So to really stick it to "ordinary" Americans, support government controlled health care.