Copyright, Jake Miller
In his July 12th article, Paul Willistein believes that Sicko is a movie “that every one should see… regardless of whether the movie is ‘right or wrong’” and the mere conversation it ignites – socialized American medicine – is something we need to consider.
While the health industry (and its ballooning costs) is something that needs to be very thoroughly discussed, state-controlled health care is more alarming than it is practical. For example, the film Sicko lauds Cuba – the poor country that houses countless people who wish to immigrate to the United States – as the country we should emulate. It also fails to mention the costs, the lines, and the red tape.
Government-controlled medicine is flawed.
Why you might ask? Our state government took very little time discussing the budget that Rep. McCall put together in early June. It wasn’t until the end of the month that Senate even put it on the agenda. The Senate and Governor then sparred over the budget, and the inability to work out a compromise on time violated the Constitution of the Commonwealth for its fifth year by not adopting a budget by its July 1st deadline, not to mention the one-day layoffs for almost 24,000 state workers.
Congress and President? Even worse.
No doubt these are the people I trust with fixing health care! Sure, please take 10% more of my salary and squander that, too!
An Arabian Proverb states that “Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.” To think that we would be extinguishing the health care problem or damming it off by relinquishing it to the government is a terrible misconception.
Suggestions: Let’s start having health care, not sick care; Get pharmaceutical lobbyists out of Congress; Bring down prescription costs; Find real ways to make sure every one is (privately) insured; Ensure that the poor and the elderly have better access to affordable health care.
Let’s fix health care, not the Michael Moore way, but the American way, and elect the proper officials to do it.
1 comment:
Good post.
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