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Re: Somewhat OT: Candidate Healthcare Proposals +HMOs

Posted by jamie on January 8, 2000, at 4:19:18

In reply to Somewhat OT: Candidate Healthcare Proposals +HMOs, posted by Abby on January 7, 2000, at 23:21:20


My father is an old-timer surgeon recently retired. He tells me how each government intervention into medicine over the decades has backfired and made things worse. Long complicated stories, but flawlessly convincing. Indeed every problem we have in medicine is an indirect result of government intervention. All too often in politics good intentions end with worsened results. That is especially true with Democrat policies, but Republicans have been guilty as well to a lesser degree. Had politicians stayed out of medicine all these decades, the free market alone would have kept prices down, quality up, and availability/access abundant. The more the government tries to influence improvement in these things, the worse they actually get. Good intenetions DOES NOT equal good results. Often just the opposite. In my book, good intentions are worthless without good results. The more tinkering the worse it gets.

As for the candidates, I'm not sure any of them will make any difference. A president alone can't turn back the clock and untinker all the failed policies of decades past. One thing to consider though is that Bush has been running the 5th largest economy in the world (Texas) and has been overwhelmingly supported in votes by all ethnic groups and sexes in his home state, including those who normally would have supported a Democrat instead. He is clearly doing some major things right in a state that is far larger than most countries in the world...according to the people who really know--the people who live there.

It's too early for me to know who I'll vote for, but nobody has a track record as polished as Bush. Not even our current vice president, who in fact has accomplished nothing on his own in 7 years. The whole Clinton administration has done nothing in 7 years. The good economy has boomed DESPITE what they do, not because of what they do. Just look at a chart of the stock market. This current economic boom clearly started in 1982, even to someone who's not familiar with stock charts. Clinton is riding on its coattails. He has single handedly destroyed our military capability and moral, taken huge chunks of our paychecks, shown no improvement in schools, gottten dozens of countries to hate americans, led a a horrible example of a role model for "our children" and...never mind, this could get real long.

The moral of the story is that our HMO problems are direct results of good-intentioned government interventions gone awry. The brains of millions of people (the free market) are collectively infinitely wiser than the brains of a few hundred (the politicians). That being said, the candidate to vote for is the one with the best record and the one most likely to reduce government's influence. Honesty and integrity would be a refreshing change too.

Regards,
jamie


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