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.

Mortgaging Our Future

The whole of climate change doctrine is largely speculative and highly uncertain. No data yet produced can give any kind of certainty to any of the predictions. I do not give any more credence to the pseudo-science of climate change propagated by secular intellectuals than I give to the end of the world cries that have come from uninspired religious zealots for centuries. Just as many false prophets have unsuccessfully predicted the end of the world—the scientific community has preached fictitious doctrine as powerfully and as often if not more so.

I would never consider betting the farm on any unsubstantiated scientific claim, for science by definition is a set of false claims that represent our best understanding of the world. I am hardly inclined to jump off the boat because the scientific community makes an outrageous claim about the global climate.

Please do what you can to inform your family, friends, and neighbors that cap and trade will literally destroy American industry and will only serve as an enormous tax, which in the midst of a recession is a recipe for disaster!