Heath Care For All | Continuing Stories in Pursuing A Moral Imperative

A few days ago I was inspired by Kirsten Pow­ers’ op-ed in The New York Post, “Why cost shouldn’t stop health-care reform” when she wrote:

The rich­est, most pow­er­ful, most amaz­ing nation in the world should treat its cit­i­zens who fall ill bet­ter than some bro­ken Third World coun­try. If we can afford to try to rebuild Afghanistan with lit­tle hope of suc­cess, then argu­ing about pay­ing for Amer­i­cans to have health cov­er­age seems petty.

There are Many Kinds of Costs

I said I’d try to post exam­ples of how other peo­ple from rich, pow­er­ful, and amaz­ing nations  refused to flinch from the costs of health care reform — mon­e­tary and human — in the hopes that we Amer­i­cans can learn to be made of the same tough stuff as they, and if col­lec­tively, nation­ally, they can make tough choices about  their sick and dying cit­i­zen, why we cer­tainty can take equally tough stands in our com­mit­ment to the moral imper­a­tive of forc­ing Heath Care For All, so help us God!

Here’s one story about what the Canadian’s were will­ing to do to one of their sick cit­i­zens in the pur­suit of the moral imper­a­tive of man­dat­ing health care for all.

(NOTE: the video fea­tures a trans-gendered indi­vid­ual who sought help from the gov­ern­ment to pro­vide sup­port for sex-change oper­a­tions. My point here is not to attack this — in fact, I wholly sup­port alter­na­tive life choices. Instead it is my inten­tion to point out the capri­cious­ness of gov­ern­ment gate­keep­ers in who gets the atten­tion of national med­ical resources: Why on earth George Smither­man ignored the plea of the first woman in this video is bey­ound me. Yes, if you’re going to have national heath care, you should help EVERYBODY, like both women in this video. That’s the plan, the goal, right? Too bad for the first woman it didn’t work out that way):

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Bet­ter, more afford­able health care requires free-market reforms: the free­dom to pur­chase health plans across state lines; tax reforms like “large” health sav­ings accounts; mak­ing health insur­ance portable, con­trolled by the indi­vid­ual rather than gov­ern­ment or an employer; mak­ing med­ical licenses portable, and more.

To read more about real solu­tions to the prob­lem of ris­ing heath care costs, see:

Pro-market Alter­na­tives to Demo­c­ra­tic Health Care Reform

See also:

• Why Isn’t Gov­ern­ment Health Care the Answer?
• What Should Be Done?
• FAQ: Consumer-Directed Health Care

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