In these United States of America, one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, many people cannot afford even basic health insurance. They suffer severely under the present system and have to live under the constant fear of not knowing what they will do if they or their loved ones ever fall seriously ill.
But in many cases, insured individuals aren’t much better off either. In comparison to the exorbitant insurance premiums they pay, the medical care they receive is often very poor.
Additionally, due to the government-enforced monopolies of HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations) and pharmaceutical companies, many patients will never even hear about some of the most effective and non-invasive treatment methods. These natural and inexpensive ways of regaining one’s health are being suppressed by the FDA and the medical establishment not because of safety concerns (they’ve been around for hundreds of years), but because they cannot be patented and would therefore cut into the pharmaceutical industry’s profits.
The current system is most definitely broken, and it must eventually be abolished if we want regain both our health and our freedom.
Forced nationalization is the worst possible answer. To get elected, many politicians promise “free” medical care for everyone. But health care nationalization in European countries resulted in longer waiting periods, severe lack of choice, deterioration of health care quality, prohibition of alternative health treatments, higher taxes, and sadly (for some) permanent illness or death because they could not get the care they needed.
Also, a nationalized system is not “free” at all because someone has to pay for it. And why should anyone be forced to pay for someone else’s medical care? Very few decent people would personally assault their neighbors at gunpoint and steal thousands of dollars to pay for their own medical needs. How could any freedom loving person agree to delegate such criminal acts to the government by supporting a nationalized health care system?
There is only one solution that will lead to true health and true freedom: making health care more affordable. Ron Paul believes that only true free market competition will put pressure on the providers and force them to lower their costs to remain in business. Additionally, Ron Paul wants to change the tax code to allow individual Americans to fully deduct all health care costs from their taxes.
Through these measures and the elimination of government-sponsored health care monopolies a much larger number of people will be able to finally access affordable health care, either by paying for medical insurance or by covering their medical expenses, which are now much lower, out of their own pocket.
As for the poor and the severely ill who can neither obtain insurance nor pay for the medical care they need, Ron Paul offers the following solution in his book “The Revolution: A Manifesto“:
In the days before Medicare and Medicaid, the poor and elderly were admitted to hospitals at the same rate they are now, and received good care. Before those programs came into existence, every physician understood that he or she had a responsibility towards the less fortunate and free medical care was the norm. Hardly anyone is aware of this today, since it doesn’t fit into the typical, by the script story of government rescuing us from a predatory private sector.
Illegal aliens already receive de-facto free health care. Why can’t poor Americans have the same… not as a right, but as a charitable benefit provided by doctors who feel a personal responsibility for their fellow citizens?
Unfortunately, the current medical monopoly corrupts many doctors by rewarding practices that are not in the patients’ best interest. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in not curing people, but getting them permanently addicted to expensive drugs that have many side effects, thereby requiring additional drugs to suppress those side effects. Many doctors are afraid to speak up and question the system for fear of being ostracized by their peers or even losing their license.
Under a liberated health care system prices would come down and additional options would become available, thereby making health care much more affordable. Moral corruption would give way to true compassion, and many doctors would remember their implicit obligation to provide free medical care to those in need, just like they did in the past.
As a medical doctor, Ron Paul swore the Hippocratic Oath many decades ago. His entire person and career is a monument to the beauty and sanctity of human life. Ron Paul knows that life without health can be very difficult and is not what it was meant to be. He has personally cared for the poor for many years, without asking anything in return.
The government’s original role is to protect our freedoms and restrain itself from causing too much harm. Ron Paul is working to prevent greedy bureaucrats, opportunist politicians and corrupt pharmaceutical companies from having any sort of unhealthy influence over our bodies and minds.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution and help us put the government back where it belongs: to Washington DC and out of our daily lives.
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This bill makes me think we have cavemen running our country. It almost sounds like 13-14 year olds are trying to pass crazy laws. THIS IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL. They have no right to do that. Which in fact, they already are in the long run. Welfare, food stamps, financial aid for schooling, and anything that is used for “needy families” is THEFT. I don’t care what anyone has to say about it, it is taking money from hard workers and giving it to BUMS. If we tear away from the constitution this country will be more considered communist. If they pass this law we will be way fast our national debt.
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Geraldo makes an abysmal Libertarian. This guys is as far left as Nancy Pelosi.
Smoking weed and wearing a mustache doesn’t make one a Libertarian.
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Global warming is a farce. The CRU leaked emails are absolute proof of that fact.
Catastrophy Bonds are the source of the income for those that plan these massive catastrophies like 9/11. Field McConnell is suing Maurice Strong and others for their participation in 9/11. Visit http://www.abeldanger.blogspot.com and learn about the Modus operandi of the cabel running this country. This is a rudimentary understanding I have of http://www.abeldanger.blogspot.com Listen to the audios interviews there and keep listening till the pieces fit together.
K. I will try. Field McConnell Dave Hawkins and a team of researches called Captain Sherlock have uncovered a murder for hire network at the highest levels of our government. This is a long story with many parts and I will try to make it as simple as possible for you. See if this helps: 1. The EPA made a rule that living beings can only expire… See More at 350 Part per Million of CO2. Problem is that all living creatures exhale at 40,000 parts per million Co2. That may seem innocent in and of itself. 2. Boeing installed Uninterpretable auto pilots that operate on the KU band which is broadcast from North Western University. 3. The installation of Uninterpretable Auto pilots means that someone else can control the plane and the pilot then has no input nor can the pilot communicate with tower to tell them what is going on. 4. It is illegal for Boeing to install these UAP onto Commercial jets, they can only be installed upon Military applications. 5. Al Gore, Michelle Obama and were in control of the algorithms created by North Western University that were used to control the air planes. 6. (I am having a hell of a time trying to do this but I hope this is working for you. I really want you to get into this and trust me and listen untill you understand and see the picture). When the EPA lowered the Allowable limit of Co2 in air, they also monitor CO2 in flying planes. So the computer is recording always an error message and sending it back to the computer. The plane is registering an violation of Co2 acceptable limits as people breath out 40,000 part per million of Co2 well over the 350 part per million allowed by the rule of the EPA. The computer program is called an Algorithm and it is a program (formed by Al Gore and .Michelle Obama) and others that takes info fed into it to make a decision. If a person wanted to take out a target, then they would monitor where that person was flying and then send a signal to the computer and the computer would read the instruction and then send back the Violations of co2 acceptable limit to the main computer and then that may be enough to send the ‘kill’ signal to the plane which then would take over the plane by the Uninterpretable auto Pilot which would disengage the actual human pilot and then appear to make a Pilot error and crash the plane. This is really worth understanding. It is hard to listen to and it is complex but I am swimming in this information and am really seeing the validity of it. There is so much more to this and I am really scratching the surface.
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My email to my representatives (not Dr. Paul):
PLEASE DO NOT PASS THE HEALTH CARE BILL
This bill is so drug company and insurance company driven and does not truly benefit the health of our citizens. No one needs any ‘drug’ for the human brain will ‘create’ the necessary chemistry to heal the human body…drugs are a SCAM. I refuse to pay for drugs!! Ask any doctor, it is the drugs which are bankrupting the system.
Furthermore, The Federal Government is too big to manage this program!! Also, it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to take the right of the citizens away by demanding they participate, buy drugs for others,etc.
People are very tired of the BIG GOVERNMENT control when health is an individual and at best a community problem. Wake up to the enslavement of the American people which is the ‘real agenda’ of those who own and control the drug and insurance companies.
This bill is fundamentally EVIL. It further moves us into socialism which is money to corporation owners and using the common people as their slaves.
Why not legislate on the real issue….foreign bankers stealing from our government and people with their SCAM of fiat money. Seven men control the entire world (leaders of the Bilderberg Group). Rothchild has 100 trillion in assests and Rockefellar has 10 trillion!! How did these families amass such wealth and power!! Answer: The federal governments of this world gave them that money….why are you not outraged!! Why do you continue to be a sheep! These few men control all the corporations which now with their politicalization of the courts has given their corporations rights as if they were citizens!?!?
Where are the righteous representatives of THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Are you all in prison by their threats? What is it? Why is the Congress doing this to the common people?
I am so ashamed of you and the spineless representatives in Congress who are taking away with your legislation our right to life and liberty.
BE BRAVE and STOP THE BILDERBERG SCOUNDRELS!! Together the Congress could do it…unite and stop them. All thinking Americans and most of the world are waiting for the American Congress to act!! These seven power addicted men plan to enslave everyone and have already raped our planet to the point of ecological disaster. Your health bill is a necessary part of their plan…don’t you see you are a PUPPET!! The solution is simple..imprison the seven at the top. Mary Hath Spokane, Peace Prophet
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Why should congressmen listen to Ronulans? You people refuse to vote for the neocons or the socialists, you’re out of the loop.
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2 Points from a first time poster:
1)Why is the Supreme Court silent on this Health Care bill and the process of passing it? Admittedly ignorant of the evolution of how we have always done it; however, it appears to me the foundation of their existence, the Constitution allows/expects the Supreme Court to act if Laws of the United States are unconstitutional. According to the Constitution (Art. III, §2): “The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States” Does the court react to an overloaded docket when they should be proactivelly monitoring creative legislational process and potential unlawful bills?
2) Does it really make sense for the American people and small businesses to have to carry insurance in a socialized health care plan? One or the other, but paying for both via premiums or taxes seems an unnecessary legislated expense to the foundation of our economy–American workers and small business.
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“Why is the Supreme Court silent on this Health Care bill and the process of passing it?”
Because nobody has brought a suit up against a bill that hasn’t been made law yet.
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Republicans are waiting in the wings should this bill pass. They have plans to bring a lawsuit, ready, willing and able.
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