Cradle to Grave? Start DIGGIN' NOW!

Well kiddos, the government has started their push for Universal Health Care. Well, they aren't calling it that this time, but it is what it is.

How can someone actually believe that the government can run the health care system for this country? How can anyone feel that the government is better at determining what you need better than your doctor? How can anyone feel that the government can control health care cost when they can't control their own budget?

The fact is they have done this in the United Kingdom (That's the England for those of you in McKeesport) and they have tried it in Canada. IT DOESN'T WORK. We know how the Dental Plans work in the UK and thousands, yes thousands come across the border from Canada every year for treatment. There are literally hundreds of thousands who have come here over the year for treatment. Not just for their hemorrhoids, but for heart conditions, orthopedic surgery, cancer treatment and everything in between. They come here to be treated for head trauma and for burn treatment, for transplants and life saving CAT and MRI scans.

See, it's nice to think that raising your taxes to well over 60% will result in "Free" government health care, but it doesn't happen. There is nothing "Free" in this country, especially health care.

Do you want some bureaucrat in Washington deciding if your life is worth saving? Do you want some bureaucrat making the decision whether you live or die?

Maybe we should have rooms in the hospital like they had in "Escape from New York." where they would terminate your life for you instead of you enduring the prison that was New York City. Snake Bliskin are you there?

What we do need is to fix the problems in our health care system, not throw it all away and start again. We need to keep the greatest health care in the world here, for if we don't do it, no one else will be able to do it. What medical breakthroughs have the French, Canadian, UK, Sweden, Netherlands or German health care produced in the past 60 years? When a head of state needs a transplant or life saving procedure done, where do they come to get it? Hint, it's not France. It's the United States.

Do we have problems with our system? Yes. Can they be fixed? Yes.

First of all,let's take a city the size of Pittsburgh. Within a 30 mile radius, there are probably 30 hospitals at the minimum. Do we need all these hospitals? Does each hospital need to have a new CAT scan machine? Does each hospital need an MRI machine? There are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 beds in these hospitals. Do we need all of them?

Why not consolidate these hospitals? Have two trauma centers with all the fancy equipment, a hospital or two for problems with the heart and lungs, one or two for orthopedics and the rest for treatment of everything else. There would be emergency rooms with ER doctors and helicopters to transport those who need specialty treatment. Not every hospital would have a CAT scan or MRI machine, but they wouldn't need one. Some hospitals would be closed or turned into nursing homes or rehabilitation centers.

Far from the brick and mortar would be the legal system. Our legal system needs to be overhauled. Lawyers like John Edwards need to be reined in. There are thousands of unnecessary "C" sections done each year because of the recklessness of John Edwards and his love of money. "Channeling" a dead girl during closing arguments has to be the lowest of the low. If he were that Psychic, he would have known reporters and cameras were in the hotel where he was meeting his girlfriend and their love child. There are towns and even parts of states that do not have an OB-GYN because of the cost of insurance for these doctors. Some women have to drive three or four hours for care. In this country that is unacceptable.

We need to reform the legal system so that good doctors are allowed to practice their craft and the bad doctors are weeded out. That's not to say that all law suites don't have merit, some do. The ones that don't have to be weeded out of the system and the ambulance chasers need to be put out of business or go legit. I have no problem with a "loser pays" system. If you have a case, if it's legit and if you have been the victim, you should have no problem. I am sure that with our great legal minds we should be able to come up with a fair and CONSTITUTIONAL way to deal with this problem.

Let me talk to the "union" members out there.

What did your fathers and grandfathers fight for in the union? They fought hard for their wages and their benefits. What is the most important benefit you have? It's your health care. Are you going to give up your health care, which you negotiated for a plan from the government? If you are willing to do that, you might as well get rid of your union and just be called a sucker, because that's what you are a sucker. Do you think for one minute that Hoffa or Lewis would approve of this? I'm willing to bet not. Give away everything your worked for.

Government run health care should be resisted and fought until it is DEAD. No matter what you say or what you call it, it is on that road to socialism. Unless you rise up and take action, they will strip you of your health care and replace it with something you don't want. Just like Government Motors.