Deregulate Health Care

You want to decrease the cost of health care? Simple. Use the tried and true conservative solution to all problems. Deregulate. Eliminate government certification and licensing of facilities and practitioners. Allow over the counter access to all pharmaceuticals and the free flow of foreign drugs at the lowest prices the market will bear. If some communities of citizens among us are not going to be allowed any health care, let those communities at least have access to medical care of a sort they can afford, whatever that may be. What right has anybody to stop them? Adopt a no lawsuit, let the buyer beware policy on health care. Get rid of fireman paramedics, who haul every constipated elder and croupy baby to an expensive ER, at the dial of a phone. Eliminate costly full ride medical coverage for the disabled, retarded, and chronically ill. I don't want my taxes going to support these useless vegetables, especially when I can't get medical insurance for myself. Their families can take care of them. They can go to one of those nice, culture of life, Catholic facilities and get treated for free. Let Laissez faire rule.

Allow full service foreign medical corporations to set up facilities in this country and staff them with their own medical professionals. Break the monopoly of the AMA, hospital cartels and drug companies.

A huge percentage of those clogging up the health care system are drug seekers and malingerers. Let them get all the drugs they want, whatever they want, over the counter, at cut rate prices. It will also put the violent, illegal drug cartels out of business as well, decrease violent crime and cut down the congestion in our prisons.

Allow new medical practitioner schools to open up. They don't have to be called doctors. They can be called anything you fuckin' want. The students don't need fancy expensive educations. They don't need to be the smartest guys in the World. They don't need to make millions of dollars a year. They need to be able to treat the basic stuff, that most commonly happens to people. They can work their way through training, on the job, at affiliated hospitals. Re establish a low cost, hospital based, nurses training system, integrating the trainees into real care quickly. Flood the market with good, experienced, sincere medical men and women who are motivated by idealism and not a big paycheck. Costs will come down quick. We have a lot more sick people in this country than we used to have. When was the last time you heard of a new medical school opening up or even an old one expanding its student population? Do you think maybe the AMA might have something to do with that?

By enforcing a monopoly of health care upon the people and controlling access to pharmaceuticals, the government and health care establishment have created the perfect environment to jack health care costs sky high, while leaving those of modest means without any option but to incur unmanageable debt in the pursuit of care. Let's stop that. Open up the playing field. If you close the system off to those that can't afford it, at least allow those people to go outside the system for whatever consolation they can get.