Besides being a scam as far as health is concerned, universal health care is a great way of implementing one of socialism’s main objectives through the back door: equalization of incomes through redistribution of wealth. Let us not forget that Lenin called medicine the “keystone in the arch of socialism.” In Canada, for example, socialized medicine is a reality of everyday life. Everybody has to have insurance. It is universal, it is mandatory, and it is affordable. People with low incomes may pay as little as $300 a year through their taxes whether they like it or not.
Those in the upper-income category may pay as much as $22,000 for the same low-quality insurance policy. Canada’s upside-down-and-backward universal health care makes sure that anybody can go to the doctor because of a sniffle without paying the bill. On the other hand those who are really sick are “guaranteed” to be circling around the emergency room or piled up on gurneys in the corridor, and they are forced to pay for such care on the basis of income. It is the ultimate sliding scale.
Can you think of any other product that you have to pay for according to your income? When you buy a car, does the dealer look at your tax return and say, “Well, this car is going to be ten times as much for you as it is for me”? It’s a great way to redistribute the wealth.
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Physician Richard B. Swint wrote:
A history lesson: Perhaps these events listed below are expected social regression. Aside from the unbearable tax for socialized medicine, there is something basically evil in this much government control over people and doctors.
1801 President Thomas Jefferson: “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
1883 Germany introduced Social Security and compulsory medical insurance.
1917 Lenin, first dictator of the USSR: “Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.”
1933 Hitler, January 30, became chancellor of Germany (50 years after socialism enacted) and 45% of doctors and most university professors joined the Nazi party. Hitler carried out extermination and sterilization of large numbers of “non-productive” Germans with the assistance of German physicians before starting the extermination of the Jews.
1935 U.S. enacted Social Security.
1967 U.S. enacts Medicare; (32 years after Social Security).
1990 September 1, Social Security Act (Section 1848) requiring providers (doctors) to submit claims to the government. The penalty for not submitting claims to Medicare is $10,000 for each claim, with triple damages (i.e., $30,000) for each repeated offense. Now, probably more than 95% of U.S. doctors participate in Medicare. (Is that adequate coercion to join?)
1991 June 5, Special Medicare Newsletter. No. 99 from Blue Cross of Texas: “Inquiries Regarding Dissociation from Medicare: ”…only way a physician can dissociate: Discontinue Medicare services; or surrender his/her license.” (Does that sound like a threat?)
1996 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. “The Privacy Rule…permits disclosure of personal health information for … and other important purposes.” The privacy section of this act is a farce. When you sign the papers in the doctor’s offices you authorize dissemination of your medical records for “other important purposes”. (You may end up on the ‘termination’ list.)
1964 Ronald Reagan: “Plutarch, Roman historian 86 AD, warned, The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”
“. . . the doctors fight against socialized medicine is your fight . . . We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients … government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.”
“We will preserve for our children . . . or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.”
1864 Abraham Lincoln: “The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Don’t forget the mandatory new tax. On the face, socialized medical care looks charitable, with only good intentions, but once power over your health care is given to a government bureaucracy, it may take you places you do not want to go, a little at a time.
Follow the trail of the best and worse outcomes of socialism: read about Germany’s plan during the era from 1883 to 1945 at these links: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics and/or http://highschoolbioethics.georgetown.edu/units/cases/unit4_5.html).
Now, do you want to go along with nationalized (socialized) health care?
Sincerely,
Richard B. Swint, M.D.
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