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Medically Incorrect
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Subject: It's Not "Health Care Reform", It's "Government
Reform
In a Medically Incorrect
video clip at PJTV, Dr. Peter Weiss demonstrates why the average
conservative cannot be entrusted to man the battle stations in
defense of our individual rights when it comes to most issues,
including health care.
Dr. Weiss argues for an alternative to the Democrat's health care
legislation by proposing the following:
- Limiting the Direct-To-Consumer advertising that drug
companies are allowed, thereby overriding their First
Amendment rights, immediately on the heals of the recent
Supreme Court ruling that just reaffirmed them.
- Force drug companies to sell product directly to the
government rather than having it buy on the open market.
(It's unclear exactly what this would entail.)
- Since government is funding the majority of drug research,
price controls on resulting drug products is justified in
order to eliminate "price gouging" of the taxpayer.
- Force drug re-importation to be allowed, overriding the drug
companies right to conduct business as they see fit.
- Promote (how?) private, free-market drug research - but only
with "safeguards", "limitations" and "rewards".
So, as is often the case in the give-and-take between progressives and
conservatives, the battle is not government control vs. free-markets
and rights, but simply an argument over exactly what form the
government controls will take, with your freedom flushed down the
toilet in either case.
I think it is important to get our priorities straight on the health
care issue. We need to be telling the conservative Republicans who
are opposing the Democrat's health care legislation that we don't
expect or want them to propose their own alternative version of health
care reform. Government has no business being involved in the health
care business at all. What we need and want from the Republicans is
"Government Reform". They should be doing one thing,
and one thing only, and that is working to repeal every piece of
existing legislation that regulates, or otherwise interferes with the
free market operation of the insurance, medical and drug industries.
By continuing to call this "health care reform", we implicitly cede
to the government our consent that it is all right for them to be
thinking about health care at all. It's not, and this video clip
demonstrates exactly why.
The bills we require do not involve 2,000+ pages of exposition. They
only requires a single sentence which identifies an existing piece of
offending legislation and retires it. The solution to the problem of
excessive medical costs is to get the government completely out of
the picture. Stop the government from funding medical research
completely, and private industry will perform that function, just as
it once did. Eliminate regulations on these industries and
free-market competition will expand choices and reduce medical costs,
just as it does in every other unregulated industry.
Contact your legislators and let them know we demand
"Government Reform". Period.
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