HEALTHSCARE

Millions of Americans were already choking on the health care they receive, if any. Now they see the hard-to-swallow Obama pills in their future. Which is better: socialized medicine or corrupt insurance and pharmaceutical corporations fleecing the market?

Government managed health care is not the cure for our sick mess. Government is the problem. Both federal and state governments enable predatory corporations to gouge sick people and break contracts with their customers.

There is little competition among insurance providers, especially in California and New York where only two insurance companies are allowed to operate. A variety of choices would drive down the cost of premiums plus punish the blatant and brazen corporations that dictate the quality and quantity of services provided to those insured.

Likewise, the pharmaceuticals whose lobbies persuaded Congress to forbid Medicare to shop for and pay lower prices for medications.

Freedom is the answer to most problems. Government should butt out of the health care field. Licensing is a sham, even a scam. Where are the insurance commissioners to act against crimes? Vaporize them, they're on the take. Eliminate the positions - no more bribes.

Liberate the people. Build a wall between health care and the state so that patients choose their doctors, doctors decide on the treatments, and insurance pays the bills. True free enterprise, not corporate capitalism with its lobbies and influences, could save us from government's destructive ways.


It's all so simple.