Universal Health Care My View

Free health care! Sounds great, doesn't it? For a bee it would be like free honey. They would be swarming from all over the world to consume it. In fact in countries like France that is what is going on. People come to France legally or illegally and use the French health care system for free births, operations, etc. No big deal, right? Wrong. They can't cover the health care cost in France, a country I might add that has a 50+% tax rate. When the French system was created it was never imagined that the health care budget would be so big. But it grew astronomically out of control as demand grew.
Now in the great United States, a country that touts freedom and independence, we are now coming to a point where we apparently want to be more like Europe and Canada. Sure those parts of the world are nice places but should we be another Europe? Seriously do we need to make ourselves more like them? I think we should be, who we should be. We are Americans. We are people who are strong, hardworking, innovative, dedicated, and caring. We are not ones who look to a centralized government to solve our problems. When we have in the past, many times those solutions end up being bigger permanent problems. We as Americans work locally and find solutions. We let the free market voluntarily solve the problem. I know our health care system is far from perfection. But I can guarantee that it will serve our country better today than any system in any time created by our federal government.
So why are we trying to offer an "option" for Universal Health care? Or better yet, why are we trying to be more like Europe and Canada? Their universal health care have not worked. In fact it is an abused system, lacking health care officials, and years of serious budget problems. Many of these countries are looking to at least in part, privatize their system. They are moving to the private markets for their health care solutions. We should be doing the same.
The big lie is the coverage and the cost. This newly created government bureaucracy will be gigantic with countless bureaucrats slowly working with no incentives to process our requests. In time American doctors will soon become an "endangered species." People out of high school will not want to go to school for 12 grueling years in order to work in a government health care system. Why would a future doctor want to waste 12 years of his or her life and be 200K in debt in order to make a measly 100K a year in a government program? They won't. In essence our quality of service and quantity of the service will go down while the cost and demand for this system will go up. Today's projected cost of 1.5 trillion will easily be doubled in 10 years. Why? Remember the bees swarming to free honey? Everyone from our country and even all over the world will be trying get here to use it because it's "free." It will be used and abused. In the future the cost will be so high, our politicians will be scrambling to seek solutions. The first answer will be for higher taxes. But ultimately, they will make government-run health care a requirement for all. That is all of us have to use it and pay fully into it. Just like social security there will be no option out. In other words there would be NO choice. But this is not like a situation where you have NO choice in buying your next vehicle. This is your health. There will be NO choice in which doctor, hospital, as well as when you are to receive these services. And God forbid if you need to receive treatments for cancer or some malignant disease. These diseases require timely procedures. But a bureaucrat distantly located will not rush around to help you quickly. And you being frustrated will be powerless. You will not be able to choose to fire the government for their bad job.So why would we want the government to have any control of our health care choices? Do we expect our government to deliver such a vital necessity efficiently to every living American? I think not.
Government is not the solution. The free markets are. Our health care has and shall continue to get better. We should try to fix the system within the system. We do not need to throw the baby with the bathwater out. The solution resides within the American people and its system, not in unmotivated bureaucrats.

Dwight Roberts
Cumming, GA