Why Is America Afraid Of The Powers That Control Healthcare?

I’ve been listening to the Obamacare debate on CNN featuring Senators Cruz and Sanders and feel a need to respond. It seems that these debates always miss the bull’s eye; sometimes they get close but the risks here are too great to keep firing and hope for the best.

It is not a matter of right versus privilege; quite simply, government supplied healthcare is a privilege. That being said, a form of basic healthcare must be available to all citizens. We are the nation of exceptionalism, our citizens are worth it, and we can do this.

Should you be of the mindset that government supplied healthcare is sufficient for your family, that option should be readily available. That is a choice every citizen should be entitled to make; and for those in need, it is a duty of an empathetic society to provide basic compassionate healthcare.

There also must be free market choices for those who wish to invest in them, in an open and competitive marketplace, without lobbyist approved tax breaks and regulatory carve outs.

Unbridled capitalism has caused the industries charged with providing the products and services needed to maintain our physical well-being to forego empathy and compassion. We are not isolated objects; we are connected beings of a spiritual nature. When we err on the side of corporations at the expense of our fellow citizens, we have effectively chosen servitude to those corporations. When we deny the empathy and sympathy inherent in our constitution, we have foregone liberty.

Both Senator Sanders and Senator Cruz are seeking to show their position as optimum, and neither will move toward reconciliation. How unfortunate that it is more important to score political points than be truly attuned to the needs and desires of the citizenry.

The arguments of both the right and the left are lacking in the responsibilities of compassion, and are bereft of any amount of commonality of spirit. Since free markets are winning propositions when our moral responsibilities are considered, let’s work together to bring about the compassionate care we all deserve. With focus on humanitarian responsibilities we can achieve that goal.

Once we get to the point that all of our citizens deserve access to healthcare we must then divest ourselves of the enormous influence of the American Medical Association. The AMA is an organization dedicated to capitalism over compassion; or put another way, the AMA is driven by greed and shows no concern for the very people providing their success.

The intent of the corporate/medical/pharmaceutical/insurance complex is absolutely unacceptable to compassionate reasoning. Unbridled greed and egoism result in anti-human policies that bring us to servitude. Throughout history we have seen the destructive power of unchecked greed; and it too often results in megalomania.

Capitalism should mean that everyone has the opportunity to seek whatever path to whatever success they deem sufficient. In no way should it be a license to obstruct others, or to keep the citizenry in servitude. That means we must turn our backs on Big Medicine and the inherent dangers of servitude in favor of freedom.

The ridiculous position that it is the responsibility of the employer to provide various cradle-to-grave benefits must be overturned. That insidious mindset came to be embedded in our social norms driven by government mandates and wage controls, with the fingerprints of lobbyists all over them.

Look at how employer supplied healthcare dampens prospects for the success of average Americans. It gives undue advantage to employers and no person should ever be put in the position to be indebted to their employer for anything other than employment.