Today's Article:
Do Not Confuse Universal Healthcare with Socialized Medicine!
Whenever the words universal healthcare are printed or spoken, what most Americans read or hear is socialized medicine and this is one of the reasons why it has been so difficult over the years to create a groundswell of support for the former.
“Universal healthcare” is not synonymous with “socialized medicine.”
If you don’t believe me, run this simple experiment. If you are with a crowd of people of ten or more, ask how many of them believe that all Americans should have access to quality healthcare? In the several dozen times in which I have done this, I get an affirmative response of ninety percent or better. On more than one occasion, I have had one hundred percent of the people respond “Yes,” all Americans should have access to quality healthcare.”
Now, ask that same group the question, “how many of you would be in favor of a system that relied on our government to provide healthcare?” In every case in which I have asked this question, at least ninety percent have responded, with great passion, that “No, they would not be in favor of such a system.” Clearly, Americans have an aversion to the idea of “socialized medicine.”
Please listen very carefully! We can have a system in which all Americans have access to quality healthcare without relying on our government to either deliver healthcare or manage its delivery.
I repeat, “Universal healthcare” is not synonymous with “socialized medicine.”
Please visit my website at www.reconstructhealthcare.comand learn about my book, Radical Surgery: Reconstructing the American Health Care System. In doing so you will discover a uniquely American healthcare reform solution that:
Will provide all Americans with access to high quality, comprehensive healthcare and prescription drugs at a price the American people can afford to pay, Gives all Americans the right to choose their own doctor and, just as importantly, the right to change physicians if they loose confidence in their original choice, Returns control of the practice of medicine to the physician, Changes healthcare from a transaction-driven system to one that is relationship-driven, Allows us to bring the cost of healthcare under control, Uses free-market principles to drive both quality and accountability, Eliminates health insurance, managed care, Medicare, and Medicaid, and Limits the role of government to the very few things government does well.
What you will discover is that we can have it all. We can continue to have the best physicians, the best hospitals, the best nurses and other ancillary professionals, the best technology and the best medicines.
All it requires is that we apply a little American ingenuity to the problem.
Please share this message with the people on your contact list and encourage them to visit both www.reconstructhealthcare.comand The Reconstruct Healthcare Blog.
Most important of all, encourage the people you know and love to write letters to their elected representatives expressing their point of view about this most important issue.
