Heathcare missing from website?

[rockfree33]

With Sicko out in theaters, healthcare is going to be a huge issue in this election, yet Ron Paul's problem resolution isn't on his website. To be honest, I'm not completely clear of Ron Paul's stance on healthcare. Knowing that he is a Doctor, I'm sure he has the best plan for everyone.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

[cajuncocoa]

My husband had asked about RP's Health Care plan also. I couldn't find any information to tell him.

[austin356]

With Sicko out in theaters, healthcare is going to be a huge issue in this election, yet Ron Paul's problem resolution isn't on his website. To be honest, I'm not completely clear of Ron Paul's stance on healthcare. Knowing that he is a Doctor, I'm sure he has the best plan for everyone.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/



His stance is 1) Get the federal government out of its regulation 2)Reduce the power of the mega-corporations (HMOs, etc) in the system (within his Constitutional power) 3)provide tax credits as a means of transitioning to a patient-doctor system with only local or state control (as opposed to a patient-corporation-doctor-corporation system) 4)Allow people to "opt-out" of entitlement healthcare and receive a tax credit equal to or a bit less than what they would have cost the entitlement system.

I think the problem (its usually liberals who point this out, but that does not make it necessarily wrong) is that the system is a fascist system. It is controlled almost completely by mega-corporations, and that is where a very very large portion of the cost goes. There are really only 3 different ways to go 1)even more fascist system 2)a single payer socialist system 3) or a local/state based free exchange system (pre LBJ USA)

[RonPaulLibrary]

Here you are:

Ron Paul Library - Health Care (http://ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=22)

:)

[kylejack]

I'll mention a few things:

1. Doctors used to come to your house, and they used to earn a fairly modest wage, compared to today.
2. It costs 1 million dollars in FDA fees to get a new drug approved for use in the United States, and that's on top of research and development costs.

Point 2 is indicative of the nightmare the government is causing in healthcare. Medicine costs a fortune because of government fees.

The issue is more complicated than this, but government interference is a huge part of the problem.

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Yeah. And what's his plan for canned soup? Everybody uses canned soup. I want to see a PLAN! :D

[empirenine]

Here you are:

Ron Paul Library - Health Care (http://ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=22)

:)


I love it. Thanks for posting that link.

Being a business owner, I debated with my peers the idea that employers are responsible for paying for the health care of employees. My stance was exactly as Ron Paul stated, that there is an "illogical coupling between employment and health insurance".

Why is a business responsible to pay for an individual's health care? My friends suggested that committing 30 hours a week of your life to a company creates an obligation of the employer to provide health care. Being part of your organization, they commit to you, and thus you are liable to take care of them.

I may meet some opposition with my statements here, we'll see.

[Dave Wood]

Here is a video that is pretty well put together and hits solidly on DR. Pauls health stance. I think he believes medicare/medicaid also had a great deal to do with the destruction of our current system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXWCBTRsko&NR=1

[BarryDonegan]

business responsibility to cover health care helps big corporations monopolize on the labor, as people can't afford to take care of their own coverage. Ron Paul is a proponent for FREE TRADE in all industries.

we currently have MANAGED CARE, which is a mix of socialism and corporatism.
This is the system where the hospital charges 75$ for a pair of rubber gloves, because the customer doesn't bitch, bc the insurance company is just gonna get charged. They then raise rates higher and higher, and corporations fit the bill. However people who don't get health care from a big corporation cannot afford to participate.

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE is a more outrageous version of managed care. Where you wait in line 6 months for an MRI.

FREE MARKET allows for competition which lowers prices, gets the government to stop giving companies incentives to benefit corporations, and allows comparitive research and shopping of doctors. government regulation of industries only gives the appearance of safety. True safety is when in a free market, people stop going to hospitals who give poor care, because its a waste of money. when you are spending your own money on a hospital, you will shop around and get the best deal for the best quality care.

[angrydragon]

Here's a couple of videos of Ron Paul talking about health care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPgTj6svmk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgRUBlNd6fE

[RonPaulCult]

While I would personally like to see some kind of protection to make sure nobody who is sick will fail to be taken care of in this country, anybody that is speaking out against HMOs is somebody I am able to vote for.

[BarryDonegan]

that protection would be the extremely low prices of free market health care.

ron paul used the cell phone comparison, that cell phones are universally affordable to the poor.