Ron Paul On Health Insurance: Your Thoughts
Filed under: News, Politics | By: Roy
Posted on: September 10, 2007 | 21 Comments
Health insurance is one of the major issues that American faces at the moment, and it is something that Ron Paul will have to deal with if he becomes President in the 2008 US Presidential Elections.
As Ron Paul said himself when speaking on health insurance, “America faces a crisis in health care”.
The cost of health insurance continues to climb and many Americans are living without any health insurance cover.
Could Ron Paul solve the health insurance crisis?
I would say if anyone if going to deal with the issue of health insurance then its Ron Paul. We must not forget that Ron Paul is actually Doctor Ron Paul, a doctor as in medicine. Therefore he knows the health insurance and medical industry. Although many claim that people in the US medical and health insurance industry are just after the money, Ron Paul is not one of those people, often offering his services free of charge.
At the end of the day, health insurance has always come up as a political issue around election time, but nobody has actually done anything about it.
Do you think Ron Paul would deal with the health insurance issues in America if elected?
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Yes. I firmly believe it will be addressed. What I do not think is that it will have an easy and quick solution. Ron Paul himself says that many of the things he’d like to do would need a transition period but being that he is and has been in the medical arena, I think he, better then most of the others. would understand what it will take to improve the health care issues in this country. JMHO
To my understanding, one of the major problems with rising health costs is government regulation. Just a visit to an emergency room can cost between 5-10 grand, even if nothing is done. Simply forcing companies or taxpayers to dish out for everyone elses healthcare is ludicrous. Besides countries with socialized health care have many problems. I know of people in canada who came here for treatment because of the buraucracy they faced there. They would have died waiting for their operation. Yes there is a problem within the medical field and doctors and Health care organizations reap huge profits, but government control is not an answer. I listen to Clinton and Obama and how they are going to FIX everything. Well there’s no more money to fix anything. The American people are already enslaved to pay for generations to come. How can they even consider some kind of socialized health care program? The rest of the repub candidates just want to keep spending money on war mongering ( dems too) so I wonder where the money would come from. WAIT, Thats easy; the Fedearl reserve Banks can just print more and lend it to the government as it has been doing since 1913. A big change is on the horizon and many, many Americans have been waiting for that change. The media knows it and hope they can silence it and perhaps without the internet they would be able to, but the information super highway is being utilized for what it was meant for. Soon Paul supporters everywhere will paint the cities and towns across America “Ron” with signs banners and information posted everywhere to awaken those who still have not heard of the revolution. The media is irresponsible and in the hands of the CFR and the bankers. It is the responsibility of the people to let our neighbors know that there is a different option, a free option, the one millions have been waiting for ,Ron Paul.
Dr. Paul has a fix for this and it’s a vastly better system than the overpriced, over regulated system fraught with waste fraud and abuse we currently have. In fact, todays newspaper headlines critisize Medicare for poor oversight and fault the system for not paying tens of millions of dollars to patients who should have directly gotten the money but didn’t.
Here’s Dr. Paul’s lengthy prescription for a fair and better health care system:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=22
Absolutely! Ron Paul will make health care affordable by doing two things:
1. Getting the federal government and the associated bureaucracy out of the picture.
2. Allow the import of drugs at a fraction of the cost that the US pharmaceutical are currently gouging the US public for.
The already obscene health costs in the US will only go up with ALL of the other candidates from either of the two major parties. The insurance and pharmaceutical companies are salivating at the prospect of government sponsored health care. The GOP candidates will borrow to fund it, the Dems will raise taxes. Dr Paul will end government involvement in medicine, and won’t be at the beck and call of big business that prevent any real competition in the industry.
The number one impediment to affordable health care is the govenment.As children we all had insurance that covered emrgency hospitilization, and our parents paid the Dr cash for office visits.This created competion and and kept rates low.Now isurance is considered an entitlement with the federal government mandating what needs to be covered.We need to go back to a single payor system where the consumer is responsible for the bills, which will lead to lowere costs.Ron Paul is the only candidate who understands this.Be prepared for skyrocketing costs to continue unless Americans resist the main stream candidates and choose an independant leader.
“To my understanding, one of the major problems with rising health costs is government regulation.” Indeed. If you want to see how great Universal Health Care (Socialized Health), just look at the VA. Top notch care right there.
When the cost of living is dramatically reduced, and we aren’t dependent on a failing fiat currency, much of the economy will grow by leaps and bounds in efficiency and value. When we open the floodgates of competition, especially in this Information Age, you’ll see the kind of progress that has only been found in the Computer Industry as of late. The Computer Industry is a great example of a minimally regulated market with lots of freedom to introduce new products into the market.
Dr Paul understands that the products and services most fundamental to prosperity and survival (health, food, energy) are too important to be handled by a bureaucracy.
Private industry handles our food, clothing, housing, construction, transportation, technology, they can handle anything, if given the opportunity and incentive.
Thanks for asking.
Ron Paul has thought about all of the issues in a careful, logical manner. However, in debates, he is usually only asked questions about the war in Iraq.
Ron Paul on the issues at http://www.ronpaullibrary.org
The other posters have addressed the topic of government meddling in health care admirably. However, one aspect of health care is the FDA, which not only has an unholy alliance with BigPharma but would seek to ban various dietary supplements. As many of us know, the best form of medicine is prevention; dietary supplements go a long way to help preventing a variety of diseases and conditions. Consider: scurvy is non-existence thanks to widespread availability of vitamin C; Rickets, BeriBeri and pellagra are all non-existent disease, thanks to (even small dose) vitamin availability. To this end, Dr. Paul has put forward a bill in the House, HR 2117, which would get the FDA off the backs of consumers. Look it up! Then send a note to your representative to support or co-sponsor this bill. This is another fine way Dr. Paul is already making things better for us all, regardless of party affiliation.
Everyone needs to see GOA head David Walker report. Ron Paul is the only candidate being honest as David Walker.
Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIgrxpp97OQ
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXr_Ga_n0pY
Congressman Paul would absolutely address the health care issues, but not by giving everybody guaranteed coverage and an open taxpayer-funded checkbook.
Getting the insurance companies out of routine care is a far better plan than making sure insurance companies get an absolute cut of every health care dollar we spend.
Increasing the number of MDs in the market is a far better way to bring down prices than letting them extort a premium for merely existing.
Letting midwives and Nurse Practitioners have more freedom, not less, in providing routine care is a much better option than making sure the MD’s corner the market in routine strep tests and home births.
Doesn’t anybody here remember when women couldn’t buy a treatment for a yeast infection without waiting 6 months to see an OB/GYN? I haven’t seen a marked increase in women dying since that happened.