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Beers with our Founding Fathers

 The new law imposes taxes, fines and penalties for opting

out of a personal responsibility;
 The insured want more, for less financial responsibility;

 The insurance companies mandate what premiums are paid,
what treatments are covered, and how much is paid;

 The healthcare provider has to follow the insurance
mandates and government mandates, make a profit, and

treat the uninsured either at reduced or no costs and/or

with compensation from the government as regulated; and
 The government over-regulates all of the above.
The answer to this question is quite complex, but simplified is this

list backwards. When government is involved and regulating, it is in

control of a free market capitalist system. There are times and a
place for regulation, but the government is not a business and

should not be providing infinite term programs. Temporary finite
programs (Well Fair) are necessary and appropriate, and everyone

should have access to quality urgent medical care (not preventive or
elective – those are non-emergent and personal issues). The

healthcare providers, as with any for-profit business, pass on losses
to other consumers, the health insurance companies should be

removed from mandating so much control over the insured and
providers, and finally – We the People need to take responsibility for

ourselves and our health with financial responsibility.
It is worth emphasizing that I am unequivocally opposed to

nationalization of anything which is not within the purpose of
governing. But first, a brief synopsis of why I feel the new

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