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Very simple remedy to health care.

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Obamacare DOA: Rx America, A Doctor's Prescription
Here's a doctor's common sense solution to Obama's nationalised health care debacle. The good doctor provides real answers. Of course, I don't believe Obama is looking for any such thing. He wants to control 20% of the nation's economy. Period. It's all about control, autocracy and "change".

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism - Lenin




Dr. C. L. Gray, President, Physicians for Reform, (above left), writes exclusively for Atlas. Send it to your Congressmen, Senators, Representatives, etc. If they have a genuine bone in their body, they can't say no.

A SEASON FOR CHANGE
For months now President Obama has extolled the virtues of choice and competition—two free market principles essential for efficiency in healthcare. In fact, these two principles comprise the sum total of the President’s argument for the public option. However, there is a problem—we now find stalemate in Congress.

Nancy Pelosi states the House won’t pass a bill without the public option; the Senate doesn’t have votes to pass a bill with one. And the longer the debate goes on, the less average Americans like what they see. Opposition to the President’s healthcare plan now stands at an all time high. Perhaps we need a change of plans.

Physicians for Reform, a coalition of working physicians, patients, and business leaders, proposes an alternative, common sense solution. It is not ours. It is not even new. Bob Moffit wrote about it three years ago and it was not even new then. Mr. President, if you believe so strongly in the principles of choice and competition, introduce them. Let individuals and businesses purchase insurance across state lines.

With one, simple, 25-page bill—no pork, no slight-of-hand, written with clarity the average American can understand—we can have choice and competition without adding a dime to the federal deficit or asking for a penny of new taxes. Mr. President, in your national address before a joint session of Congress you invited alternative ideas. If this debate is really about patient care and not about politics and power, why not endorse such a bill? When Wolf Blitzer posed this question to David Axelrod, one of your top advisors, even Mr. Axelrod could find no objection. In this age of political stalemate there are few ideas that share such consensus.

No, this one idea won’t solve all of the problems with America’s healthcare system. In fact, Physicians for Reform has laid out four such foundational reforms along with seven secondary reforms. But let’s slow down, take them one at a time, and let each idea stand on its merits.

Letting individuals and businesses purchase insurance across state lines would impact the economy far beyond healthcare. True choice and competition would lower the cost of health insurance for many American businesses. This in turn would lower overhead letting businesses either increase wages or hire new people. Given our economic downturn and rising unemployment, there are few alternative ideas that would stimulate the economy more effectively without costing the Federal government another dime.

Mr. President, you invited alternative ideas. America awaits your response.

C. L. Gray, MD

President, Physicians for Reform
 
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