It seems President Barack Obama and his Progressive mob of Democrats are, hell bent on passing a national Health Care Bill. It is clear most American have learned progressives are only giving straight facts, if you don’t want the truth. In an attempt to protect uninformed American citizens, an interesting piece of writing has been unearthed.
In 1994, Simon Rottenberg and David J. Theroux authored an interesting study titled, Rationing Health Care – Price Controls are Hazardous to Our Health. In this paper they point out some interesting facts.
“In Germany for instance, at the beginning of 1993, the government moved to tighten its global budgeting of the country’s national health care system. The burden of this belt-tightening was to be felt first and foremost by German Pharmaceutical firms.”
This appears to mean, when the government puts price controls in place that which they control suffers. Keep in mind governments are most successful at growing themselves, not private sector industry. Government controls artificially influence supply and demand. In the case of health care, the results are fatal.
On page 3 another point is made.
“Inefficiencies from government controls further manifest themselves in the gross bed mismanagement found in hospitals. Despite the long waiting list in Britain and Canada, one in four beds remains empty at any time, with hospital occupancy rates at 74 percent for acute beds and 82 percent for all beds. Yet 25 percent of acute-care beds are being utilized by so-called “bed blockers” for long-term nursing home purposes, often at 600 percent the cost. “
Does such action indicate efficiency or population control? The statement above screams loudly, “Government control cares about the government, not the people”. I must remind you this was written in 1994. Progressives were trying to convince Americans the superiority of socialized medicine then and are still doing so.
If Progressives in Washington are allowed to obtain socialized government health care in the U.S., suffering will increase at rates never before seen in this country. Consider this, in 1966, Medicare was introduced at $3 billion a year. They said it would cost $12 billion by 1990; federal government predicted amount. In 1990, Medicare cost $107 billion. Uncle Sam missed the mark by $95 BILLION . This is just one example of government management, and what did we get? Higher taxes and more people saying, “My Uncle Will Take Care of Me”. Progressives bought votes by using Medicare, and fear.
Is this what you want – to live in fear of losing your health care because you may disagree with a politician or policy? Tyranny can take different forms. When a person depends on the government to take care of them, what are they - but a slave. Tell the master, who feeds and cares for you, no; and life will become very painful by his hand. This is what is being offered by P.O.O.R. – PROGRESSIVE OBAMA OPPRESSIVE RECONSTRUCTION.
References; www.independent.org
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