EDITORIAL: GOP proposes another stupid health care bill
When then-candidate
In a private meeting with
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The bill does nothing to give Americans more doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, hospitals, clinics, low-priced drugs and neighborhood wellness centers. It attempts to create nothing and merely continues a redistribution shell game that has government choosing winners and losers based on factors such as income and age.
Health care reform that is generous, kind and heartfelt would produce more health care for all. It would put clinics in strip malls, pharmacies and fire stations, and otherwise create a surplus that would have health care providers competing for patients.
Health care is a basic human need, much like food. When access to affordable food was a problem, during and after the Great Depression, government did not respond with policies that determined who was worthy to eat and which third party would pay for it. Instead, government ensured sustainable commodities of food for rich and poor alike.
It began with the ill-fated Agriculture Act of 1935 and continued with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, the National School Lunch Act of 1946; the Agricultural Act of 1949; and President
Since 1935, the federal government has enacted at least 10 major directives to make food more accessible and affordable mostly by increasing supply.
Separately, the
Because the federal government protects and promotes surpluses and competitive pricing, the cost of food has plummeted for the past century. A dozen eggs that cost
Just as government protects affordable access to food, it has waged wars to create and protect surplus energy.
By contrast, government does nothing to establish surplus health care. Instead,
"Increased insurance coverage increases demand, and Obamacare alone is projected to require about 16,000 to 17,000 more physicians than would have been required without it," explained Dr.
Carroll explained
In a ranking of 35 countries,
As baby boomers age, we see increasing demand on a diminishing supply of care. Yet nothing in the Affordable Care Act or Republican efforts to replace it has anything to do with providing more care.
Compassionate health care reform would order the
Generous, kind, heartfelt health care reform would include a directive for
Generous health care reform would focus on providers and consumers, not regulation adjustments to government and private insurance.
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