NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

This note is to corroborate the article under WSJ’s Review & Outlook, Friday, March 27 on page A12, titled, National Health Preview.

The debate goes on with the Democrats determined to install nationalized health care to the nation regardless of any opposition, large or small; rational or irrational. The fallacious, though oft-repeated, figure of forty seven percent of the population that is uninsured but must be covered, is the main excuse for the push to install this massive program.

First of all, such enormous financial debt addition to the already outlandish and backbreaking national debt is rationally preposterous, but that does not dissuade the left’s agenda.

Second of all, is the total ignoring and disregard for the basic truth and efficacy of free-market exchange, which signals the preponderance of failure.  That is observable in Great Britain’s, Canada’s, and Massachusetts’ negative experience with “universal” health care.  

In Canada and Britain extended waiting times for necessary care and rationing are the order of the day. What whipped Governor Romney were claims that his health care program would be less expensive. The editor graphically states, “Reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.”

How can Democrat Representatives and Senators honestly disregard the true overall cost control of the sum of the unencumbered, individual citizen decisions of what and how much medical insurance each person or family should have? Passage of Medicare and Medicaid was deceitfully accomplished by President Johnson’s Democrat-controlled Congress. Free-market, doctor-patient relationship has never been candidly and forthrightly refuted. It was and is just as efficient as the sum of all the free-market automobile purchases has ever been, when weighed against any nationalized automobile distribution program.

To preserve the still-available vestige of the greatest medical system every evolved, the inefficient and unaffordable enormous cost and eventual rationing of nationalized health care must be opposed and defeated.

David L. Wood, M.D., Long Beach, CA, March 28, 2009; word count 322.