Health Control
The more I think about this national health care endeavor the more I see an underlying layer that has conveniently been left out of the debate. As a former worker for Sun Oil Petroleum, and years of research into oil companies for other possible work, I have seen a growing trend that could tie this whole legislative mess together with an invisible rope. I'm not sure how it is today, but in the 70's and 80's it was about 35% of the medical industry money had direct ties to the oil companies. You see, they understand that fossil fuels are not forever, and are hedging their future on other profitable ventures. They hold numerous medical patents and are the decision makers for a lot of the research that is being done.
Enter in the government. If this health "reform" becomes a reality, the government will only have a face on the control of medical care, but it will actually fall on the decisions of the ones who stand to make money, or not. If these interest holders determine that the government has too much of a stranglehold on the profitability of the medical industry, they could decide to pull out and go to greener pastures. That is what they have always done when the government tries to control them through environment restrictions, energy constraints, and other regulations. We could very well see the same issues that Canada and other countries operating government medicine where the masses are unable to get the treatments they need when they need it, and have to seek other means.
Has anyone asked why so many Canadians cross the border to the USA to seek doctors and treatments that are very common and readily available here? It is because those types of treatments or medications are deemed unnecessary under the government control, and the patients can do nothing about it. Yes, the poor now have some sort of medical care guarantee in Canada, but it is substandard, and not pro-active at best. If this plan goes into effect, 80% of the breast cancer findings of today will go away, because, the government has decided that high risk at young age isn't really a risk, and they won't fund those tests. This is just one example of the many changes to care we have assumed will be available, but will be denied because the government doesn't want to fund it, or does not deem it necessary.
As more and more government restrictions cause illness outbreaks and deaths from lack of diagnoses equipment or lack of test funding, and the dirth of medical research, less people will be willing to be a part of it. Doctors, nurses, and medical technicians will quit and seek other more satisfying professions.
The bottom line: 1) Medical industry will suffer technologically because it will no longer be profitable to the companies that fund it, and 2) Tests, medications, treatments, and equipment access will be unavailable in many cases because of government decision to fund politician and bureaucrat pockets rather than needed medical attention.
I'm Been Franklin
