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A debate on health care needs to happen. Citizens of this country, and the world, need to know what health care really is and not just what they hope it will be. To facilitate the debate we are launching a campaign utilizing the internet and the vast resources now available.

It is ALL ABOUT POWER over our lives, and they control the news!!! Socialized medicine is a very inferior type of health care that has been tried around the world and in some third rate countries still exists. Further, it has never successfully supplied health care to the people who live in the socialized states.

The primary question to me is why anyone who understands health care would favor such an inferior system? I just used a word that is at the crux of the problem "understands". Most people DO NOT understand what health care is and our greatest challenge is to educate people about health care so they are better equipped to make the right choices. By the way, the two basic options for health care systems would be either "socialized medicine" or a "free enterprise" market based system.

Also, let's not play games with it comes to naming a health care system Universal Health Care. The word "universal" is used because politicians and the news media understand the word "socialism" has a bad reputation and people understand socialism is not good. Let's call it what it is.

Let's first look at the potential problems with socialized health care. The first problem is socialized health care will be run by the government and the government's record for successfully managing ANY program is non-existent. Never in the history of this country has the government successfully run a program of any kind and the reason is simple. When the government is running, or managing a program of any kind failure, or lack of any signs of success, is never admitted.

Instead, politicians or government officials will claim "we just haven't spent enough money" on this program and will allocate more funds (actually our tax dollars) to make us think they are really doing something good for the program that they want us to believe it will now magically work, and this goes on and on, year after year.

Compare this approach for "program fixing" with a "free enterprise" run program. A free enterprise market managing a program may fail, but if it does those running the program will either terminate it or make changes so it will be successful. Think real hard now, have you ever heard of any government program being "terminated", I can't. Instead, it seems that all government programs continue in perpetuity continuing to waste more and more of our tax dollars. Politicians simply to not have the guts to admit a program they voted for has "failed".

So, the first problem with socialized medicine is that it is a government program. Another is it will lead to "rationing" of health care services. The politicians will establish a "government board" to monitor how a doctor treats your health needs. Surely you don't believe the government will allow a doctor to spend whatever dollars he/she deems necessary for your treatments, do you?