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The Cuban American Singer Songwriter Nil Lara once challenged the people to simplify their lives in a song composed and interpreted by him with the title: "Vida Mas Simple" or "A Simple Life". In a time that has long vanished from the United States of America, there was a relationship between the Health Care Worker [i.e.: Physician, Nurse, Pharmacist...] and the Patient. What happened was the Republicans and Democrats in Washington under pressure from those who wanted a National Health Care System decided to fix something that was not broken and broke it. The result was the additions of certain titles to the Social Security Act called Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was the National Program while Medicaid was the State and National Program. The last state to allow itself to be ripped off by this scheme from Washington DC was Arizona in the year 1982.

The rest has been a shameful abuse of government overegulation with more than five hundred laws covering the same subject, and laws that have hampered research and the discovery of new cures which would help the patient. It has come to the extent that at one time, there were people who would see their Health Care Providers in the United States of America and then make a drive for the border with Canada or Mexico in order to buy a one year supply of the prescription medications which are cheaper [even though Canada has a National Health Care Insurance]. Even Minnesota has been allowing the purchase of medications from Great Britain and Canada secondary to the price range.

Ever since William Jefferson Clinton alias Bill Clinton introduced his proposal for a National Health Care Service in 1993, many states have jumped on the bandwagon in spite of the fact that the measure was rejected by Congress. But the attempts by the States in Health Care Reform have been the introduction of Regulation, Nationalization, and Socialization of Health Care through the back door and in a way that would be palatable for the people.

While many people including the Health Care Gurus of Washington do not want to admit it, Nil Lara was right. We must simplify our lives and that means deregulating health care and allowing the free markets to lower the cost of health care. We should go to that day in which the Health Care Decisions were made between the Physician, Nurse, Pharmacist, and the Patient. This is the only solution for a Health Care Crisis that has spiraled out of control. The first few months, years, and decades are going to be painful but again like Steve Miller [an American Rocker of the 1970's] once sang in the song "Jet Airliner" in 1977, "You Have To Go Through Hell Before You Get To Heaven". Nothing is gained without a struggle and we must struggle to regain control of our health care freedom by deregulating the system and allowing the market to operate. Deregulation and Free Market Operations in the Health Care System will make the patient and Health Care Provider think twice before ordering expensive tests as well.

The time to simplify our lives in health care by using the forces of deregulation and the free market is now not when our lives our totally socialized to the point where even the air we breathe is socialized. I have to tell you that if we reach the bottomless pit of socialism, the recovery will be more painful than it is at the present time.

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