Healthcare... Heaven or Hell
Healthcare... Heaven or Hell "A Tale of Two Citizens"
Dear Friend,
Let me suggest a story about two citizens, Harry Healthcare and Paul Politico that may shed some light on the healthcare debate.
Harry a healthcare executive studied hard, earned a degree in medicine and started out as an entry-level person in a healthcare company. Over a 25 year career he worked hard, learned on the job, changed his marketable skills and grew into the CEO's job.
He discovered on his journey that the healthcare business was an exciting place to invest one's passion. The market was growing rapidly with the ageing of the population, the client's needs were changing, and opportunities to deliver a great customer experience and improve the client's health were everywhere.
As CEO Harry was a masterful strategist, so he set sales growth with outstanding customer satisfaction and a good return on investment as the company priority. He imbued his organization with the principles of natural competition; find a high growth segment, differentiate your products from competitors, become one of the niche leaders and go rapidly down the experience curve.
The results were outstanding! The company prospered, all the employees prospered, the customers were happy to choose the level of service they wanted within their means and the investors were pleased with the ROI. Throughout this American success story Harry's employees met many other citizens with similar experiences from small town doctors to big corporate specialists. American healthcare was lauded as the best in the world and citizens from nationalized healthcare nations flocked to our shores for needs not met.
There is a dark side however. Our government for the last 100 years has hindered healthcare consumers and producers. Tax breaks were given to employers and not individual citizens to purchase healthcare, health insurance has been over regulated, lawyers have been able to sue indiscriminately and lifesaving drugs and procedures have been delayed by regulation. These problems, created by politicians not by businesses, can and must be fixed with simple cost effective solutions.
In spite of political interference with the free market American healthcare, cultivated by the perseverance of its citizens, has flourished.
Beware the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing!
Paul Politico a career politician studied hard, earned a law degree and started out as an entry-level community organizer. Over a 25-year career he worked hard, learned how to spin a message, developed oratory skills to persuade the public that it was acceptable to confiscate money from some of the people to give to others and grew into a Senator's job.
He discovered on his journey that the healthcare business was a place to invoke people's compassion. Paul realized that if he had a large pot of money he could promise free healthcare and garner the support of voters to keep him in office. If the money pot was large enough he could satisfy his promises and skim plenty off the top to keep him in the lifestyle he deserved. Free limo service, private planes, special security, lavish offices and staff, top of the line healthcare, a lucrative pension and of course plenty of opportunities after leaving office to make a fortune lobbying.
As Senator, Paul was a masterful politician, so he set tax levels as high as he could without inciting a revolution. He imbued his fellow politicians with the principle, "Create a Crises"; blame the prior administration, write a partisan bill to pay off partners who finance re-election, pass legislation that is not read by politicians and broker deals behind closed doors without public knowledge.
The results are disastrous! There is so much demand for the free healthcare that the pot of money from the prior confiscated taxes cannot provide enough supply. Paul's options are limited. Either more money must be confiscated or the services will be rationed. Paul's solution is to spin that greedy businesses are increasing costs and profit and gouging the consumers requiring the heavy hand of government to force American business to operate unsuccessfully or to force American business to stop operating.
Throughout this socialization of America story Paul's constituents met many other citizens and decided to protest by forming the Tea Party Movement.
Healthcare is a Made in Heaven High Growth Market Opportunity and should not be allowed to go to Hell in a Hand Basket as a High Cost Ever Growing Government Program.
Remember the only reason a politician sounds compassionate is to spin the public into another expensive program to keep themselves in luxury along with the government union employees that support their re-election.
In a free market sales for products and services grow based on the needs and means of the consumer. High growth is good because it increases employment at all levels and provides cost effective capital to finance the growth. All constituents are happy!
In a government controlled market products and services grow based on the opinions of elite politicians and bureaucrats who are looking for ways to get re-elected. High growth is bad because it expands government spending, controlled by unions, for products and services that are given away under the false premise that they are free. The only way to get capital to finance these re-election programs is to confiscate money from the citizens with higher taxes. Most Citizens are unhappy!
Government Run or Regulated Healthcare is Bad for America and its Citizens and will crush the American Dream.
Your Friend,
Brian Sear
Posted by Brian Sear at 8/27/2010 7:11 PM 
Categories: Federal Government Programs, Current Affairs, Healthcare
Tags: Compete and Empower Wealth America Brian Sear Prosperity Healthcare Freedom
Categories: Federal Government Programs, Current Affairs, Healthcare
Tags: Compete and Empower Wealth America Brian Sear Prosperity Healthcare Freedom
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