Ask your doctor if _____ is right for you<\/em>." The infusion of Capitalism into Medicine has not been a good thing in the long run, at least not in its current form. The idea of medical insurance is<\/u> "collectivism" – always has been, and universal health care in a heavily regulated environment is inevitable. It shouldn’t cost the government anything if properly administered. My concern is that the current health care debate does not focus enough on regulation. The Medical Industry will not regulate itself. That’s beyond obvious…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once upon a time, medical care was simpler. You got sick and went to the doctor. The doctor could treat some illnesses and did. Others couldn’t be treated, and so the doctor delivered the bad news. But then, more and more illnesses could be treated, and that cost more. Since illness is always an unwanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Once upon a time, medical care was simpler. You got sick and went to the doctor. The doctor could treat some illnesses and did. Others couldn’t be treated, and so the doctor delivered the bad news. But then, more and more illnesses could be treated, and that cost more. Since illness is always an unwanted interruption and extra expense, somebody came up with an idea. Why not charge everyone a fixed amount for their medical care every month, then pay for health care from that pool of money when people need treatment. They called it Insurance, but they could’ve called it socialism or collectivism [except the terms weren’t very popular]. And that was fine so long as medical care was "not for profit." But wherever there’s a pot of money, entrepreneurs will not be far behind.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/bushdebt5.gif\")
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