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of medical treatments, formulary prescription drugs and a choice of selected participating physicians and pharmacies is NOT a freedom of choice health plan. Folks, when it comes to healthcare, "one-size-fits-all" doesn't cut it. We're a society of individuals with individual needs. We're all being lumped together as numbers and either DENIED coverage based on the medical criteria of others in our same age / social /demographic / socio-economic group, or allowed to PURCHASE ridiculously overpriced healthcare based on the same prejudicial criteria.

In an ideological capitalistic society, no entity or corporation would take advantage of its citizens, but instead, exist solely for the purpose of allowing its citizens to prosper. Realizing, however, that human greed will most always supersede human need, the role of the government in healthcare should be limited to placing percentage-based financial caps concerning profit for large healthcare corporations, and creating laws banning the exclusion of, or exhorbitant price-gouging of coverage regarding pre-existing conditions. Healthcare should be attainable for all Americans and government enforced, not government provided.

That, however, is an ideology not likely to happen. The reality is the insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and for profit Hospice corporations are too powerful and conveniently in bed with our politicians. They're way too powerful and it's next to impossible to take power away from those already in power without a major upheaval. We've become too dependant on our government for too many things and for the most part, we're afraid to buck the system.

So what's the fix? I don't know, but I do know that it has to start with expanded government regulations, not expanded government provisions.

The next time you have to give an opinion on whether or not the government should expand healthcare programs, stop and think of the ramifications before you answer: Nothing is free. Somebody somewhere will have to pay for it. Will it be you?

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