Your Superiors In Congress Know What You Need: NOT

Now that the health care Obamanation has grown to almost 2000 pages of legislation that you're not particularly welcome to read because you get ornery and complain. Keep in your place and submit to your masters, you know, those "representatives" in congress who keep voting perks for themselves as they farm out the writing of bills that they don't read. Must be nice to have a sinecure where you don't really have to work because you have an army of sycophants at your beck and call. SEE HERE for the announcement of a bill where ordinary people who will only have to pay and pay weren't welcome.

Health care costs as much as it does because of government and not because of greedy physicians or greedy insurance companies. The reality is that government meddling always (that's right ALWAYS) increases the costs of goods and services. That's because the government meddling carries with it compliance costs and usually imposes added layers of bureaucracy and layers of rules and regulations, all in the name of fairness or equity or some darn thing that your 'masters' have determined that you need.

Is some oversight appropriate? No doubt it is, but it certainly isn't clear that government is a good source of oversight. For one thing government can't even keep its own house in order, why would anyone think it can keep anything else in order? No demonstrated competence entitles government to be trusted. Then there's the question of what is the biggest driver of growth in health care costs? I'm not sure because certainly technology costs something. The growing success of health care so that people live longer costs something. But probably the greatest cost is the fact that there is no restraint on legal suits and awards so that the cost of malpractice insurance is through the roof.

My doctor's aide nurse just a few days ago said that her malpractice insurance costs $400,000 a year and she's not a doctor. I hope she was exaggerating. What's behind those kind of costs is out of control suing for every less than perfect result. Sorry, perfection eludes all but God. Malpractice should not be about unfortunate results, but about incompetence and negligence. It's nice that juries feel sorry for people who have unfortunate outcomes, but bad things happen and unless they are due to incompetence, misrepresentation, or negligence or something like that, it's just the hand you were dealt, not a license to rape the medical establishment. Medical reform without tort reform is like a cake with only icing and no cake. It's nonsense. The government, made up mostly of lawyers, doesn't seem to want to stem the tide of nuisance legislation that penalizes the medical industry. That should tell you something about how much they really care about the receivers of medical goods and services. It's all about power. It certainly isn't about improving health care.