More on Health Care

This conversation is in response to the President's press conference last night. It is important to remember that most of the proposals by the Democrats are being pushed under false assumptions about the current state of health care in this country.

To understand the issue in all of its complexities we must distinguish between all of the parties and processes that make up what we call "Health Care."

• Health Care Professionals: Doctors, physicians, psychiatrists, pathologists, physical therapists, nurses, EMTs, paramedics, medical technicians, and on and on
  
  
• Health Care Research: Doctors, professors, and other researchers who develop new ideas, methods, practices, and techniques relating to medical treatment and who further understanding and advance the ability of health care professionals to provide the highest quality of health care to patients
  
  
• Health Care Administration: Hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, and other medical facilities that serve as a central organization where health care professionals can work; as well as all of the business and administrative support behind them
  
  
• Health Insurance: The insurance companies and programs that help individuals, families, and different groups of people disseminate the costs and risks associated with medical care and treatment
  
  
• Medical Science: Drug/Pharmaceutical Companies, Medical device manufacturers, and similar businesses who create and manufacture the tools that health care professionals then use to provide their patients with the highest quality of health care possible
  
  

Are there problems with the professionals? Yes...
the administration? Yes...
the research, the science, and the insurance? YES...

But don't turn the whole kitten caboodle over the the government who hasn't proven that it can run anything...ANYTHING! other than what it is supposed to run-ie the military (see US Constitution articles I-III)

We need to make changes in the system, but the existing government programs are like an over-sized barnacle on the free market ship that puts undue strain and stress on a system that still provides the best health care in the entire world.