by Carmen Alexe

Created on: October 03, 2009   Last Updated: October 06, 2009

Just the other day my nephew, a brilliant 22 year old with the wisdom of a much older and experienced individual, brought to my attention a recent article on the government run health-care topic that appeared in the NY Times.

I had to read it twice to grasp its full meaning. By now we all pretty much know that more than 51% of Americans are against a government run health-care, which makes many of our politicians very nervous, since they've been committing to the special-interests lobbyists to pass this bill no matter at what cost.

That means that, if after all avenues have been exhausted and the Americans still don't want it, they will still pass this bill 'against' the wishes and needs of the American people.

To get a little more help from their buddies (the obedient media) they are now using one of their "avenues of indoctrination" called NY Times. Mr. Nelson Schwartz is presenting the idea that if the government-run health-care is presented as a successful system in another country we will then, right away, buy into it and will stop giving the president and the endorsers of this bill such a hard time.

So, he is using the model of Switzerland and wants to convince us that if it works for the Swiss, it's going to work for the Americans. I do not claim to know how the Swiss model works but I placed a call to my cousin, who lives in Switzerland, and I will get the information directly from a Swiss citizen and not from the internet. I will let you know more after I get the entire picture from him.

In the meantime here are the reasons for which this bill should be turned down. I happen to be experienced with government-run health-care since I lived in a communist country. Government-run health-care will lead to...

1. Rationing of health care due, in part, to a shortage of doctors.

2. Increase in fraud (the larger the bureaucracy the higher the fraud, and we for sure don't have a shortage of that).

3. Huge increase in the deficit as a result of non-accountability (our government has never been able to be profitable in ANY arena).

4. Decrease in the quality of health care.

When doctors become government employees with a salary cap and also become restricted by the Health care Czar on the treatment of their patients, there will be no incentives for older doctors to stay in the field of medicine and no incentives for young people who sacrifice their young lives and get themselves into student loan debt.

Therefore, the government will have to lower their medical school

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