Frank Admits to Single Payer Scam

For a more in-depth discussion, go here:

http://www.agoyandhisblog.com/fixing-the-health-care-problem-by-2015/

Ultimately, like so many other social problems, this one is all about entitlement from top to bottom.

Patients feel entitled to enormous settlements when their doctor or medical facility screws up.

Doctors and medical facilities feel entitled to liability ‘protection’ from their mistakes or perceived mistakes.

Insurance companies feel entitled to enormous profits on the malpractice insurance they sell.

Doctors of virtually every stripe feel entitled to a six- or seven-figure salary because of the sacrifices, financial burden and hardship they endured as a result of going to medical school.

Nurses, nurse practitioners, P.A.s and other non-M.D. professionals have begun to feel entitled to salary increases as well, seeing as they’re usually the ones doing most of the actual work involved in health care.

Medical schools feel entitled to levy enormous tuitions and fees for medical education.

Pharmaceutical companies feel entitled to gargantuan profit margins because of the expense involved in getting a drug to market.

Insurance companies feel entitled to gargantuan profits because they have a virtual proxy monopoly on all health care.

Insurance company executives feel entitled to obscene salaries simply because they’re able to produce such enormous profits as a result of that proxy monopoly.

Meanwhile, the general public has been trained to feel they’re entitled to health care. And if they have a job, they’ve been trained to believe they’re entitled to health care insurance as part of their employment compensation. (Note: MA has actually made this entitlement legally manifest via statutory requirements for employers to provide health insurance!)

Generally, the public believes they’re entitled to be seen in an ER even if their medical issue is a relatively minor, non-emergency one.

EMTALA has encouraged the public to believe they’re entitled to health care even if they can’t or don’t want to pay for it.

Most recently, the moral adolescents of the Left have busied themselves convincing the public – especially victim minorities and illegal aliens – that they have a “right” to health care – essentially, that they’re entitled to someone else’s property and services irrespective of the cost or time involved.

Nowhere in any of this chain of entitlement does the cold, hard reality of market economics come into play any longer, because liability and comprehensive medical insurance “covers” all of the factors that increase cost. There’s no feedback to bring the costs back down.

THESE are the reasons health care costs have skyrocketed ever since comprehensive insurance was ‘invented’. Medicare and Medicaid had a small part in this, but it is lost in the noise when one looks at the tens of billions flushed annually through the comprehensive medical insurance companies in the form of premiums and payments to overpaid doctors, lawyers, pharmaceutical companies and insurance company CEOs. Not to mention the staggering, wasteful costs of conforming to the useless HIPAA regulations, which – in actual practice – do absolutely nothing to improve health care and nothing to improve the security of a patient’s medical records.

The government’s solution: ‘fix’ the problem by implementing a shitty version of what created the problem in the first place – government-run comprehensive medical insurance.

Of course, once they achieve this feat, the government can then claim the authority to implement salary and price controls if they’re paying for the goods and services. They can also claim authority over any aspect of your life that might affect the cost of providing health care. You’ll either conform to their dictates regarding what you can eat, how much you can weigh, how high your blood pressure or cholesterol can be, what drugs you must voluntarily take, etc., etc. … or you’ll simply be triaged, and you’ll go without health care altogether. This isn’t speculation. There are committees and working groups already working out the eugenics-style guidelines for this process right now.

There is some entertainment value in all this, however. Go to OpenSecrets.org and check out the percentage of medical professionals and related industries, as well as the aging Baby Boomers who overwhelmingly supported the Democrats. They have been well and truly punk’d.

Unfortunately, thanks to their naivete, so have the rest of us. We are indeed through the looking glass.