Ron Paul: Government involvement causes price inflation in healthcare and education
In an interview with Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker, Ron Paul talks about his concerns regarding the government taking a larger role in healthcare. Watch the full interview here.
Aaron Task: Healthcare is not a right, according to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who also happens to be a doctor. Tech Ticker has come to Washington today to talk to the Congressman about many issues, including the Health Care legislation that seems to be on the fast track in Congress.
The Democrats this week put out a proposal that CBO says is going to cost over a trillion dollars for ten years. It was quickly passed by the Senate committee. Do you think that this proposal is going to become law?
Ron Paul: Part of it, probably. They don’t even blink their eye. A trillion bucks… and they’re completely wrong. They’ve never been right on projects of medical programs; whether it was Medicare or Medicaid or prescription drugs, they’re always off by 100%, 200%. It always costs a lot more. And even the projections of collected money… I mean maybe you make $300,000 or something a year…
Aaron Task: Not quite.
Ron Paul: So we need more people making $300,000 a year so we can tax it. But there is not enough money out there. The revenues are always off. Look at what is happening to the revenues right now, they are crashing. That’s why the deficit is exploding. We’re spending more, revenues are going down, and the members of Congress don’t even blink an eye.
Aaron Task: So is your concern about the money or the way the program is structured? I imagine that as a doctor you would prefer that all Americans had access to health care, as opposed to uninsured people using the emergency room as their family doctor.
Ron Paul: Yeah, I want everybody to have maximum care at the best price, and that’s why I want the government out of it completely. There is no authority for the federal government to be in medicine, except for military personal. So we want them out, we want to deliver healthcare like you deliver cellphones. With cellphones, the price goes down and everybody has one.
Aaron Task: But most people aren’t happy with their cellphone carrier though, right?
Ron Paul: Okay, there are too many government regulations on the carrier.
Aaron Task: Yes, of course.
Ron Paul: The healthcare system is a boondoggle created by the federal government, that’s where the inflation is. Governments print money, prices go up in certain areas more so than others, because the government is involved in medicine and education; that’s where you have the greatest amount of inflation. So if you want good healthcare at the best rate at the cheapest price possible, you have to have a market phenomenon.
Aaron Task: But the Democrats are saying there has to be a public option here.
Ron Paul: Well, of course, because they based it on a false assumption and understanding of human rights and personal liberties. They say you have a right to it. Well, I don’t have a right to medical care, I don’t have a right to a job, I don’t have a right to an automobile, I don’t have a right to a house. I have a right to my life and my liberty and to keep the fruits of my labor.
That’s where you get production and that’s where you have the best distribution and the wealthiest situation in the world; the market. But we’ve given up on that, we don’t have much faith in it, and this administration said, “No, all we need is to spend, borrow, print and just pass out the goodies and everyone is going to love us”.
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If one of your top concerns is healthcare, read this:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj11n1/cj11n1-1.pdf
Good response
A revised parable
One day a poor pregnant woman came to Ron Paul
“Oh, wise one” cried the woman. “My husband has abandoned me and my children for another woman. I cannot support this child in my belly. I want to have an abortion. ”
Ron Paul gazed upon the poor woman and replied “No. Woman. The baby in your belly has a right to life. Go and have your baby and forget about an abortion”
So the woman had her baby.
The baby was born gravely sick.
It needed a doctor and expensive medical care.
So the woman returned to the Congressman
“Oh wise one. My baby is sick. But I am poor. I have no means of support and no health insurance. My child needs expensive medical care.”
Ron Paul took the the poor woman’s hands in his.
“Health care is not a right. My child. It is a good.” He reminded her . “You chose to marry an unreliable man. You chose to be a wife and mother instead of learning a trade to support yourself. We are all responsible for our choices. If your child is sick and you cannot afford a doctor you have no one to blame but yourself.
The child died after much suffering
That was your argument?
Can you find the hole in your own bucket?
Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51115
They had better call for an appointment.
Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.
Huh?
The elites are insane ….
…. or evil?
“Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”
Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
July 15, 2009
Rep. Joseph Pitts, a Republican from Pennsylvania, had a strong reaction to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments about doing away with useless eaters “we don’t want to have too many of.” Pitts declared Ginsburg’s “eugenics way of thinking debases all human life” and he expressed shock that a Supreme Court justice would suggest certain categories of people are not worthy of life and should have been aborted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScP6ED1FQg&feature=player_embedded
I rise to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for speaking up on this issue. Can I get a second?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments provide a small window into the diabolical thinking of her masters. It is wholly predictable the corporate media and “liberal” and “conservative” bloggers have attempted to render it a political football instead of revealing the true nature of eugenics — it is the ultimate dream of the ruling elite to cull the useless eaters and the unwanted herd and political ideology is entirely secondary to the realization of their horrific and genocidal dream.
Things are really starting to get nutty. I think I am living in atlas shrugged. Lets hope Ron Paul runs and makes head way in 2012
Interviews with Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker
How a “Very Pessimistic” Ron Paul Would Fix the Economy
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/282246/How-a-%22Very-Pessimistic%22-Ron-Paul-Would-Fix-the-Economy;_ylt=AuIpRtKtp5LvN2uC7ePjVLZl7ot4?tickers=%5EDJI%2C%5EGSPC%2CSPY%2CDIA%2CXLF%2CGS%2CAIG
Ron Paul: The American People Demand Transparency! Audit the Fed!
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/281729/Ron-Paul-The-American-People-Demand-Transparency-Audit-the-Fed?tickers=%5EDJI%2C%5EGSPC%2CGS%2CXLF%2CSKF%2CFAS%2CBAC
I’m armed.
I’ll be ordering an impenetrable vest.
If we fall some of us in destroying the Fed then so be it, the Federal Reserve needed to die a long time ago.
This country’s economy will die and so what when we know it’s already in the tank….
http://www.endthefed.us
ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE……STAND UP AND SHOOT IT!!!
Be careful of what you try to get passed. It likely won’t unless the Govt. can use it for their agenda in some way. That’s how screwed up our country has gotten. The Govt. is full of dirty tricks and will stop at nothing to portray a certain image in order to protect itself. Clever but dirty!
Do you really think that the people in control of our country are going to just hand it over? They will only respond to the same tactics they use. Oppression, Lies, and Injustice. Our dimise is inevitible. While this may be true, don’t let it be said that we didn’t put up a fight. There’s something to be said for going down with dignity and honor. I say that every person in America needs to go on strike and demand the audit before we invest anymore time, energy, and resources.
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If Ron Paul want to help America.He need to come into the main stream of todays issue and let go of that 1980’s issues,flat tax,government is the enemy,audits.I would like to see IRS audit Ron Paul.Let us see his,before anyone else.Either shut-up or put-up
If Obama want to help America. He need to come into the main stream of todays issue and let go of that 1910’s issues, income tax, federal reserve is the friend, secrecy. I would like to see IRS audit Obama. Let us see his, before anyone else. Either shut-up or put-up.