Health Care Reform....easy as 1 2 3, and legal

Everyone is abuzz about Health Care reform. Will it cover abortion? Will it cover illegals? Will it lead to the disasterous Nation-wide health insurance of England or Canada?

More importantly, those who rely on our republic's founding document say that the federal government has no authority over health care as slated within the Constitution, and that Congress is incorrectly citing their authority over inter-state commerce as a means to control it.

I have a proposal that one may find interesting.

1. Congress, in its ability to regulate interstate commerce, can remove the states' ability to prevent certain insurers from practicing within their state. Several small business owners complain that there are thousands of insurers out there, but they are only allowed access to four or five within their state. After all, it is Congress' duty to remove any unfair or burdensome interstate regulations or taxes. By allowing more access to more insurers, insurers will be forced to cut their prices or offer better services...and thus make it easier to insure more people.

2. Disallow medical monopoly. Or, in other words, allow for more compitition in the medical world itself. Japan essentially has health care for all its citizens, but their health care system is not monopolized by the pharmaceutical industry. Yesterday I heard from a naturopathy doctor, saying that he had to stop taking medicare patients or else he would face jail time. At the moment, it is even illegal to advertise a non-drug as a "cure", despite testimony from thousands of people who claim to have been cured by the alternative. There is nothing wrong with a doctor telling his patient, "Get some fresh air, some exercise, eat a proper diet, and loose some G-D weight." if that doctor feels the patient's problems could be cured by this.

Example...my mother lived for years with high blood pressure and cholesterol, and taking several medicines to control it. She took up ballroom dancing for fun...lost a ton of weight...and was able to drop several medications. Who knew? Well, I did...begged that woman for years to take her fat, diabetic dog for a walk, too.

3. Disallow doctors from calling CPS whenever a parent seeks an alternative treatment for their child. We aren't talking no treatment at all, which I agree is neglectful...we're talking alternative treatments. In some cases I've heard, its run the gambit from looking for another doctor to not filling out a prescription for anti-biotics. And I know in my experience, a certain pediatrition that I was unhappy with tried everything to keep us from having our medical records sent to another doctor. No, I was calm, cool, collected, and even simply tried to say I wanted a doctor closer to where we had moved rather than "You're a quack." Of course, they had to give in at the end. But it goes to show...doctors will try everything to not loose patients to another practitioner.
If I don't care for the people who wash my car, should I be forced to keep going there? Insanity.

But, of course, this, too, is for the sake of the free market. When faced with compition, doctors will be forced to lower their prices, or work better.

Easy as 1, 2, 3.

A truly free market can work if we only allow it. With our current depression upon us, people seem to feel that Capitalism and Free Market are the problem. The problem with that is that we haven't been capitalistic and a free market in decades. Big business has lobbied our governmental frauds to impose taxes, fees, and regulations that do not protect the customer, but rather protect the big business from compitition. And one of the biggest industries right now is health care. John D Rockefeller once said that "compititon is a sin". Its only a sin in a fascist world, John. In a free market, competition is a virtue.