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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All I can say is, I hope the government takes care of me. Because I sure do not know how to take care of myself.
I sometimes eat things that are bad for my health, and most likely do not get the government regulated daily allowance of vitamins that I should be (don’t tell the FDA Agents!).
With the government taking care of me all should be well. Just like how they fix everything else they get involved in.
I think Dr. Paul is the cure to the partially socialised, legislated by insurance company lobbyists’ payouts to curropt politicians, hardly “free market” system. Ron Paul’s knowledge of Economics is thorough, and his personal experience in Medicine is invaluable. He is steadfast and consistent in his believes and he does not take money from special interests.
Ron Paul is the only chance of America escaping the same fate of our more “liberal” friends around the world, the suffering and death of so many while waiting for their government provided “universal” healthcare.
Those who say the government needs to take the reins on healthcare simply amaze me. Youre talking about the same people who oversaw relief and rescue during Katrina, bungled the Iraq war and half the time cant get your letter from point A to B; if I need a new heart or kidney pronto these are the LAST people I want to have to come to.
As someone else mentioned as well, we simply CANNOT AFFORD IT. Neo-cons and liberals (is there really a difference?) seem to operate on a system of “put it on your tab” promises where they promise a govt solution to all the world’s/life’s problems in the form of a bureau or agency or department or program. What they neglect EVERY SINGLE TIME, is that while these programs LOOK and SOUND great and effectively give them bragging rights on “having done something,” they DO NOT WORK and suffer from chronic inefficiency about 90% of the time. Meanwhile the clowns we elect operate within horrendous debt as an accepted matter of course and run up a multi-trillion dollar bill that the peole have to foot. Sooner or later it all comes crashing down.
Its also worth mentioning that a lot of our healthcare problems including overpriced and ineffective medicine stem from blatantly corrupt, overblown, and frankly insane drug policy.
Ive heard pharmacologists say, for instance, they believe over half the more dangerous and addicting pharmaceuticals could be replaced with medical marijuana- which in many cases would be more effective and would always be cheaper. This is to say nothing of the medical research coming to light in recent years suggesting cannabinoids have anti-tumor properties…
Ron Paul has repeatedly vouched for his opposition to the drug war and the federal government’s terrorizing state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries. That could end up being very important in the larger scheme of things.
It’s obviously agreed that healthcare is a priority issue for many Americans, but it is just one of the many “symptoms” of the core disease that is at the heart of everything financial. Our “money”… or what people have been taught to believe is money. Dr. Ron Paul, being the master Constitutionalist, understands this (see Article I, sections 8 & 10 of ours). I believe that the most compelling issue that Dr. Paul intends to tackle, the dismantling of The Fed, is at the nexus. It is the core disease… the unseen tax. Dr. Paul’s position regarding this issue is unwavering because he understands that by correcting that disease (being the good Doctor), the symptoms will subside. For those who have never seen it, an insightful read on how this cancer works may be found at:
http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html
Most people get their in formation from an increasingly mis leading, untrustworthy source, the Boob Tube, Did we learn, if we found out at all, that as much as 70% of our grain,corn and soy, products are Genetically Modified from this great source? I did not. I did learn more about Brittney then I ever needed to know though. This stuff is making us sick. What to do? The F.D.A. Allowed this, they also allowed these products to be sold without needing to inform us, contains G.M. products. So we get sick, but thats o.k. we’ve got a great health/drug care plan and after several (paid for-free) painful, invasive, inconclusive tests and very expensive procedures they will give us a pharmaceutical drug to attack but not cure, the symtom. read the bottle for possible side affects, FREE ??
Further more this same F.D.A. would make it illegal for an informed layperson to purchase as a preventive measure vitamins, minerals or other nutrients that have been proven to help, ward off or even cure disease without their blessing and a doctor ordered prescription at about four times the cost, for our own good of course. Health care is not health care it is drug care. it is a guaranteed subsidy to gigantic drug companys that are proving themselves less and less able to heal the sick. Dr. Paul would allow ME to choose, which is just one reason he gets my vote.
Well, to answer your question, the Ron Paul election would also have to spirit in another set of reforms to be truly effective: to reform that parasitic, do-nothing body we call Congress. A number of incumbents are going to have to be tossed out, and the people are going to have to enforce term limits. I believe in term limits, but the other runaway body, the Supreme Court, serves to protect the ELITE instead of minding their Constitutional business. Yes, we Americans have been lax and played for fools. And we’re paying the price for not draining the swamp.
That said, if you follow the GAO, David Walker notes that the cost of Health Care is the number one fiscal issue facing this country. Paul could certainly do a few things quickly, but it will take years:
- Get the focus off the current “privatization” mantra, which equates to adding layers of “private corporate sponges” onto the system. I have had experience with this–these sponges just shuffle papers, complicate the process, and collect big.
- Induce fiscal responsibility, which only exacerbates the deficit problem and inflation. That is, no more runaway supplementals, no more big handouts to the security state, no more military adventures, etc. A lot of hidden costs here. Thus, reign in the Executive.
- Push to get rid of the big money sops: Homeland Insecurity, for one.
- Reinforce the doctor-patient relationship and cut the middlemen out, as much as possible.
Ron Paul would let the free-market address the issue of healthcare in the US. Competition and entrepreneurs would lower costs and widen coverage. His plan is to ween the public off the current government programs and remove goverment controls from the system in a way that would not hurt those who have become dependent on it. http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/health-freedom/
This OpEd Article is trying to discredit RP in his stance that the Iraqi War was illegal:
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/jbell_20070911.html
My response:
Sir:
You’re hand picking your facts to suit an irresponsible position contrary to Dr. Paul’s assertions.
No one has questioned the illegality of the war in the debates because it IS illegal. If it were in fact *legal*, then the candidates in the debates (and the press) would show proof of the legality and Dr. Paul would be ridiculed. THIS HAS NOT AND WILL NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE THE WAR IN IRAQ IS ILLEGAL.
According to Public Law 105-235 (that you hand picked your facts from), the actual verbiage of the Joint Resolution to Authorize Use of Force Against Iraq is as follows:”…the President is urged to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations”.
The Joint Resolution is critically flawed and therefore illegal, because it justifies the US occupation by linking Iraq as the perpetrator to 9/11 (Public Law 105-40). Furthermore Public Law 102-1 only authorizes US intervention to bring Iraq into UN compliance (668), not invasion.
Clearly the president is NOT following the constitution (have you even read it?) and bringing Iraq “into compliance” does not mean forcible occupation.
The Joint Resolution backs up the invasion with Public Law 105-338 “The Liberation of Iraq”, but that law specifically says that the US is ONLY supporting Iraqi nationals in their quest for a regime change, not a military occupation by US forces.
Furthermore, Joint Resolution Sec. 3 that Authorizes Force, specifically limits intervention to 1) defending the threat…posed by Iraq, and 2) enforcing UN resolutions.
And lastly, the War Powers Resolution as demanded in Sec. 3 (c) of the Joint Resolution, this war is required “…to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities if Congress has not declared war or passed a resolution authorizing the use of force…”
The War on Terror is a farce. Its a war today because they’re fighting us to defend their own sovereign nation — of course hostilities will continue indefinitely as long as we’re occupying their country.
Bush is trying to save face and he is ultimately culpable for his interpretations of the misinformation he received and the only MORAL, LEGAL, and CONSTITUTIONAL thing to do IS GET OUT OF IRAQ, NOW.
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are my favorites on this issue. Personally, I hope Ron Paul finds a spot for Dennis in the administration when he gets elected.