Congressman Ron Paul on Healthcare

Rep,Teapartiers,Beck,Ron Paul are CEOcommunists...They want you pay your bloody rates to the CEOs gains and private health care bureaucracy!

40 milions US uninsured citizens and US bailed out economy really need a National Health Care (Single Payer) founded by progressive tax (not flat tax) on the capital gains.

Single Payer Now!

The solution is almost commically simple. Outlaw all forms of insurance except major medical. You MUST pay out of pocket for routine medical care. If you can't, you do without. The poor should have the government pay their premiums but they should have to pay for routine care out of pocket.

ER visits for routine care should be forbidden. Care given to illegals should be forbidden. Legal immigrants should not be eligible for ANY welfare the first generation they are here.

The absolute bottom line on healthcare costs is corruption. Only $1 out of every $12 (and that is a conservative estimate) goes towards care. The rest goes to pushing paper. Why? Because the government put an ocean of paperwork and managed care between doctors and patients in order to redistribute wealth via healthcare from those that earn wealth to those that do not. Various greedy individuals take a slice at every step until you have today's ridiculous situation.

Yeah so we can hear Osama bin Laden's deep economic views right??

He is after all an expert on economics, and we should model our economy off of what he says!!!!NOT!!!!

The USA is the wealthiest most powerful country in the history of the planet!

So basically it is a double whammy for the US. There is smaller tax base because the size of middle class has shrunk considerably on the other hand the tax rate for wealthiest has dropped to lowest level in nearly 70 years.

The US had a pretty good position as long as it had a strong and a large middle-class. Tax for the middle class has not changed much for more than 4 decades however the level of pay they get from jobs has changed for worse and most of the jobs that paid good wages has been shipped abroad. While at the same time the tax for the highest income earners is at the lowest level since FDR.

I get pretty disgusted to see people slam interest groups like AARP, AMA , AHA , AHIP and so forth.

These interest groups (lobby) need politicians to make laws that favor their specific industry or profession and politicians need these interest groups to fund their election campaigns. It is pretty mutually beneficial relationship.

That's not the relevant issue though. The important issue is "why did the world keep the US as reserve after the Gold Standard was completely removed.?" The answer what I said below, at that time only the US had enough productive capacity and real wealth to support a world reserve through implicit taxation. After nearly 40's of squandering our highly privileged position we have nothing to show for it, except huge SUV's and IPODs. We're only just beginning to feel the ill effects.

It was pretty natural that if some currency were to be tied to gold the currency was going to become a reserve currency for the rest of the world.

If 100 $ were to equal to 100 gram of gold and give a govt backing it was pretty natural for govts around the world to see US $ as gold and start using it as reserve.