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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson

Archive for April 8th, 2008

FAA a Model for Health Care

Posted by uncajake on April 8, 2008

Over the past few weeks it seems like the FAA has been in the news just about every day.  Required maintenance has not been performed causing whole fleets to be shut down.

We put our lives in the hands of the FAA every time we climb into a plane, so it is somewhat unnerving to find out that they haven’t bothered to do their job.  It kind of gives you a warm feeling deep inside to think that this is the same type of bureaucracy that will be in charge of our health care if Hillary gets her way and is able to initiate universal health care.

Not only ineptitude will have to be contended with in the management of the program, but what happens if they actually mandate everyone see a doctor every year?  We can see what will happen if we take a look at the result in Massachusetts when they mandated such a program.

They system overloaded, too many people trying to see too few doctors.  Well, that sounds like we need to train more doctors doesn’t it?  That is true, but there is a small problem with that.  When the government controls the prices a doctor can charge the doctor  cannot make enough to justify the cost of medical school, admissions will drop and the situation will just get worse.

This is a disaster we cannot afford.  Let the free market operate and things will work.  Try to control them and you choke the life out of them.

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