Posted by
microace on Monday, August 03, 2009 12:00:00 AM
That was just a teaser, I don' t think Thomas Jefferson ever commented
on Socialized Health Care , but if he had I think it's pretty safe to
say he would be against it. As would all of the founding fathers. Let's
examine it a little. We know by what Jefferson wrote in the Delcaration
of Independence that he believed very deeply about individual freedom.
" that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,"
I think it's safe to say we could replace men with Humans, all humans
are created equal, all humans have certain unalienable rights endowed
to them by god. Isn't that what he is really saying? We have rights
that are given to us by god and that no man or group of men should be
able to take that right away or control it. I mean isn't that one way
of denying my god given rights, by controling them? Control gives the
controller the ability to turn off or shut off whatever it controls. I
will agree I think the founding fathers did think Health was a god
given right to humans. As was the pursuit of happiness. Everyone wants
Happiness and we spend most our lives trying to pursue it. Yet there
isn't a government agency or program that is set up to provide it for
us, or to regulate it for us, to assure us that we get the right
quality of happiness at the right price in the right quanity. So by
this argument I say the founding fathers would not want the government
to create one for Health care. Yeah we have a right to health care and
the governments duty is to make sure no one keeps us from this right.
Their job isn't to regulate it, price it, and sell it. It isn't their
job to tell us we have to have it, or to provide it to the poor. No one
wants to deny health care for someone who needs it and can't afford it
but, it's not the governments job to do that. When the market fails to
attend to a need, the government should look into it's own
interventions into the industry and modify or correct what it is doing
in order for the competitive free market to correct itself. It will
happen, if you have fewer rules and regulations and government control
the prices go down, the service goes up. I know for a fact that my
personal Doctor will not take medicare or medicaid patients. He told me
the government makes almost impossible to treat these people. First he
said there is so much paperwork that he spends more time filling out
paperwork than diagnosing and trying to heal the disease. Second
treatments and drugs are denied by these agencies that control every
aspect of our elders health care. It's the same way with insurance. The
government has so many rules and regulations and paperwork that you, I,
and he has to fill out it's almost amazing that anyone ever gets
diagnosed or cured. I say lighten up on my doctor, he's a really good
doctor and he cares about his patients, let him practice his craft to
the best of his abilities and cure a lot of people instead of he few he
can help now. He's saved my life twice and I could never go to another
doctor, no matter what the government told me. When the founding
fathers created this country, it was their intent was to have a new
order of government, one which didn't include noblemen, kings, or the
elite. Now though our congress and senate have digressed into such a
creature. We have Princess Pelosi, who is always misinformed. We have
Princess Barney Frank, oh, well maybe that's not a good example, he may
very well be a princess. You get my point though. We have lifetime
politicians that think they are the Dukes, Earls, and Princes of the
New World. We have made them royalty by continuing to vote for them and
for never punishing them for their misdeads. We really have only
ourselves to blame for all of this.