4. Top 10 health care myths
The path this country takes in the next year will have an incalculable impact, not just on the future of health care in America, but on the fundamental relationship between government and free enterprise in our society.
So wrote Steve Forbes in his forward to an invaluable book, a primer for understanding and unmasking the truth behind the health care debate: The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide (large .pdf file) written by Sally C. Pipes.
Problem, not a crisis
Sally C. Pipes, health care scholar and President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), takes on ten popular myths about the state of health care in America. She then outlines several patient-centered prescriptions for reform.
After reading Pipes, you will know with certainty that there is no "health care crisis" in America -- merely problems in certain areas of our premier system that we can fix efficiently, effectively, and without the rotting canker of socialism.
We will fix them, just as we Americans have done with all of our problems since the birth of our nation -- unless we allow ourselves to be stampeded and fear-mongered into an unnecessary rush to Government-run Health Care Rationing.
Why they want to rush us
Pipes goes beyond the issue of raising taxes to pay for what politicians so often imply is free. She details how government actually spends the money they take from the productive economy and what the real costs to society are.
That's why Obama and the Democrat Party want to rush and ram this through -- they don't want us armed with facts or understanding what they do until it's too late. Think about it:
A majority of Americans don't want it, but Obama and the Democrat Congress demand it be forced into law.
Pipes strips away the sycophantic rhetoric used by Obama, the Democrat Congress, and their allies in State-run Media. She closely examines and dissects:
- Myth One: Government Health Care Is More Efficient;
- Myth Two: We're Spending Too Much on Health Care;
- Myth Three: Forty-Six Million Americans Can't Get Health Care;
- Myth Four: High Drug Prices Drive Up Health Care Costs;
- Myth Five: Importing Drugs Would Reduce Health Care Costs;
- Myth Six: Universal Coverage Can Be Achieved by Forcing Everyone to Buy Insurance;
- Myth Seven: Government Prevention Programs Reduce Health Care Costs;
- Myth Eight: We Need More Government to Insure Poor Americans;
- Myth Nine: Health Information Technology Is a Silver Bullet for Reducing Costs;
- Myth Ten: Government-Run Health Care Systems in Other Countries are Better and Cheaper than America's; and
- Solutions: Markets, Consumer Choice, and Innovation.
Pipes looks closely at the real record of government, not just in American health care, but around the world. She shows us how massive government intervention has actually performed and the many policy quagmires it has created.
But after baring the truth about the real problem areas within the U.S. health care system, she then offers practical, doable solutions to economically and equitably fix those problems.
Recap
In her book, Ms. Pipes details, in dollars and cents, every aspect of our health care system -- and offers viable, common-sense, free-market alternatives to socialism.
It is now up to us to use these tools to prevent the hostile government takeover of our outstanding American health and medical system.
Links to the proposed legislation and these articles are available to you now, right at the top of this site's home page -- as well as links to your Senators, Representatives, and Downsize DC.
Let Washington know you do not want Government-run Health Care Rationing, get your family and neighbors to do the same, and don't let up until they get the message.
Help end the statist ambition to eliminate our individual control over our own lives and the welfare of our families.
Hype and Chains.