11/9/09 Ron Paul: Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice

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As Washington continues debating healthcare reform the rest of the country is primarily concerned about jobs and the economy. It is still uncertain what policies will be implemented, but I am certain about one thing: It will only further devastate our economy and our dollar.

The leadership has come up with a proposal they are confident will be what they consider fiscally responsible, only to have it scored as nearly twice as expensive by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Estimates of past healthcare spending programs have been off by as much as 100 percent so there is no telling what the actual cost will be.

The past century should have taught us one thing: that government intervention is expensive. Government programs lend themselves so easily to waste, fraud and abuse. Combine that with overall inefficiency and it all adds up to a hefty price tag for the taxpayer, with not much leftover for actual services. An outright takeover of an entire sector of the economy, especially one as important as healthcare, is something that we just cannot afford for the government to do right now. Not to mention the fact that it is completely unconstitutional. But Washington insists on torturing the numbers and tinkering around the edges rather than facing this truth.

If healthcare reform does indeed pass, we should not be under the illusion that it will be free. The money to pay for it will have to come from somewhere. They say they will get the money from cutting waste, fraud and abuse, but all of that is seemingly intrinsic to government programs. Since they want to expand the governments reach we have to assume we will be trading waste, fraud and abuse for waste, fraud and abuse with a bigger budget. The powers that be have insisted the money wont come from higher taxes, it wont come from rationing of care, and it wont come from higher premiums. This can only then put more pressure on the Fed to print the money out of thin air. We already have a weakening dollar. They are accelerating everything that weakened it in the past. Adding this new, monumental pressure could very well be the straw that will break the dollars back.

Foreign creditors are already nervous about continuing to invest in the US because of our skyrocketing debt. The explosion of debt that is certain to accompany the enactment of this national health care bill can only add to that nervousness.

Ironically, enactment of the health care bill could help the cause of liberty by hastening the day when Congress is forced by economic circumstances to stop increasing the welfare-warfare state and return to the Constitution.

There are many problems with our current healthcare system, to be sure. There are many tragic stories to be told. However, we need to look at the root of our problems in order to address them properly. More government intervention and bureaucracy injected into healthcare will take a flawed system and make immeasurably worse.

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[agenthelios]

Someone remind me.....other than the dumb cows who voted Obama why is Ron Paul NOT president?

[DemocratsTREASON]

> pikamann : You make us vomit

Don't leave before you clean up your mess with your socialist mop.

[lorrieringel]

cool vid .. i like it really great keep it up!

[MedicalTourismCR1]

Nice Channel!

[deec269]

email Ron Paul (above ) and ask Him to Run. He has the backing of the American People. Let him know that we want a True American not a usurper and his croonies.

[deec269]

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[deec269]

Arrest the usurper and replace him with the Man For America. Ron Paul the Man that Should be President.

[MaDmOnkyKungFu]

Wow i didnt know ron Paul had guts enough to speak out agianst the bill.

[historian65616]

Your view of the people paying rent to the federal government in order to live in this country is quite sad. I suggest you look up and read some information about the founding of this nation, the constitution of this nation, and the conditions of English rule that caused the American Revolution. We the People are sovereign in this nation and are not residents or subjects to be ruled over by the federal government. I would suggest those who want socialism look elsewhere, and leave us alone.