Government Controlled Healthcare System: A Recipe for Disaster

The United States Federal Government wants to offer healthcare to all individual's which is understandable with the high cost of receiving healthcare in America. Many citizens have no health insurance and one major crisis could bankrupt them. This is a big gamble, but what options do they have available for receiving free healthcare?

Newly elected president Obama wants the Federal Government to control the healthcare industry. This is bad for many reasons besides that everything the government is involved in usually is over budgeted and wastes a lot of taxpayer money. For example, what does the following have in common? United States Postal Service, Medicare and Medicaid are controlled by the Federal government and are bankrupt. What does this prove? That if the Federal government takes control of healthcare and requires everyone to have insurance that the healthcare industry will be bankrupt and there will be no incentive for citizens to attend medical school, nursing school or any other healthcare related profession if the government is going to control how much they can charge for medical services.

Yes, something needs to be done about healthcare in the United States. However, the Federal government should stay out of trying to control the industry and put pressure on the medical field to create a way that all Americans can receive affordable, quality healthcare. Government only needs to have regulation authority and not try to control a whole industry. The facts speak for themselves that any industry government has controlled has led to failure because of wasted taxpayer dollars and inflated compensation and pension plans of those people that work for the government.

The United States healthcare industry needs to protest the proposed legislation of making everyone have insurance. Insurance carriers are the only ones that will reap the benefit of having a nationalized healthcare. People will be lost in the bureaucracy of government paperwork. A few questions left unanswered by the Federal government include will they try to dictate the earnings of a healthcare professional or just pay whatever price is set for the services. There's too many questions left unanswered or thought about while they try to rush the legislation through the Senate.

Healthcare reform is needed, but I'm afraid that a nationalized healthcare system will lead to failure just as everything else the government touches. Also, what ever happened with working for what you get in life. I was raised by working for what you get in life and don't freeload off the systems. However, I do understand that some people need help because we all do at one point in our life. It seems that we're living in a "what can you do for me" society that lacks any ambition or reasons to work hard in life because somebody will give it to them for free.

I'm working class poor, but I wake up every day and go to work and expect to earn what I get in life. Some people are dealt bad cards in life, but they can run the table if they set their expectations high and are determined to change their lives. We all know the cliché "That if it's free it's too good to be true." A nationalized healthcare system is exactly that. I'm neither a lefty or righty--I'm for whats right for everyone not just special groups that control government voting.

What is the answer? At this point, options are limited. Government could put pressure on the medical industry to come up with solutions or risk the possibility that the United States Government will run a nationalized health care system. That may get people together to find a solution without the government trying to obtain control and ending up costing taxpayers trillions of dollars.

What is your take on the whole national healthcare debate?