Public Health Care Syndrome
Antithesis, thesis, synthesis - the typical approach.

As usual, people believe that things from the government are free, as if the government is anything more than a collection of citizens. People usually want everything provided for them, but only after they get used to it and expect it. When you put food out for a wild animal, they will return expecting more, and such is the case with the lazy leeches of the United States. They don't understand that communism (marxism) operates under the principle that everyone must chip in for the good of everyone else. Communism, however, differs from true charity because communism doesn't allow a choice. Communism will make outlaws of those who don't want to participate. Hardly true charity.

Ron Paul said in a debate that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. He was referring to immigration, but the principle applies everywhere. If I advertise that I have a free computer for everyone who needs it, you'll see that people begin flooding my doorstep to get the free computer. In fact, you'll see that there is a greater demand for computers because they are now free. This will make my cost go up so that giving out free computers will cost more and more over time. Furthermore, the increased demand will make the cost per computer go up, to boot, no pun intended.

Another way to look at this is how Chuck Missler explained. Most people are very deliberate about what they charge to their credit card because they have to pay it all back. But if I gave you and 99 other people a credit card with the same account number on it and told you all that you can all use it and only have to pay back 1% of the charges, what happens? You would no longer be very careful with how you use the credit card. You would be thinking that each $1000 television that you buy only costs you $10. You would go crazy! The problem is that the other 99 people would do the same and everyone would end up owing more money than they ever thought possible.

Sharing the cost this way does no good.

Take both of these examples and put them together and you have our health care system. People have been masked from the cost because health insurance has created a wall of separation between cost and doctors, making people oblivious to its expense and making the doctors very willing to charge more. They don't have to feel guilty because they are billing a multi-billion dollar corporation, not Joe Schmoe.

This is a recipe for disaster:

• People forget the cost which removes the free market competition between doctors
• People begin to expect health care because it has become a fringe benefit
• People get group rates which makes them ignore cost and visit the doc for every sniffle; after all, they have insurance so they are entitled to a visit
• Health insurance becomes more common making in greater demand therefore driving up price

Now we are in too deep. Our attitude like the animal who usually gets food from a certain feeding place has created an entitlement mindset throughout the public making them demand health care from the overpriced system that was created by a non-competitive health care environment. Now people think that the government owes them something. This means that I owe them something.

Instead of making me pay for you, take care of yourself and learn what competition and charity are and you'll see a better nation.