Ok so originally I had a page up about the Epstein Files and I was going to post links and files about it but this issue I think is more of what people in West Virginia want to hear about from their candidate for the US Senate. I'm talking about the free market vs. government to help solve problems in society.

When I was in high school and college I took classes on economics that focused on the government vs. the private sector. It was always clear that government created walls and barriers to freedom. Government by its very nature was not designed to give freedoms to do anything but was a slave master that has to be imprisoned at all  costs. 

Let's talk about health care. Right now our government has a huge amount of power over us as Americans regarding the price and design of health care. Law requires a setup where people who can afford it must pay monthly for health care insurance by the way of premiums. This is supposed to give you access to certain networks of doctors or hospitals to get medical services. In the past there was no such thing as health care. Everything was out of pocket or fee for service. If you had a headache you called a doctor and they either came to your house or you went to their office. Same with other medical needs.

Over time politicians across the US saw the opportunity for financial gain and power to control health care in America. This is where the problems we currently face began. There is no one event that we can look at rather understanding what happened over time. 

Remember that socialism is government taking money from you by force to then give supposed freedom back to you. It didn't matter that government had no business taking that money out of your pocket to begin with. Anyone not able to afford a health care insurance policy is eligible for federal or state health care funded in part or whole coverage. Don't forget, that governments are designed to be medical providers. Government does only 2 things well, it taxes (steals), and it kills (building military for political use: good or bad.) 

In theory this sounds ok but that requires people in power that are involved with this process to be 100% honest and fair. We see the fruit of the dishonesty of politicians and medical professionals as corruption in the health care industry today. Why is this? Because power corrupts and the more money you throw at "free" stuff the more corruption grows. Even good people trying to help others will do corrupt things just to make the system work for the good they want to do.

Insurance companies get to decide whether or not you as an individual are valuable enough to treat medically when you have an expensive illness or disease. Those insurance companies care about profit, not helping people because they are for profit companies.

So we have corrupt politicians working together with corrupt insurance companies working with corrupt medical professionals. That doesn't end well for the American citizen. During the Obama years the government pressed hard and was successful for making major changes to health care in the USA. I can't go into all of those things but needless to say it wasn't good for us. We see the out of control costs right now for health insurance as the child of that government action. 

What can be done? We first look at whether it is reasonable to attempt to address and fix each individual problem with this broken system. In reality this would be like sitting down at the beach and trying to count all the grains of sand.... impossible. A better solution that gives us citizens the best chance of more freedom is to get government completely OUT of health care except for two simple regulations. The first is that no patient can be denied health care for any reason. They already do this with automobile insurance coverage. The worst drivers are still covered by the same companies as the best. By requiring insurance companies to cover everyone addresses preexisting conditions. The second regulation would be that every doctor, hospital, or medical facility of any kind must provide their prices on their website. This would force competition. Think about when you go to the grocery store to buy bread. You can choose any bread you want and the price is right in front of you. 

Getting rid of health insurance would be the best option but without government involvement I believe that most companies would do the right thing for us Americans. Those companies would work with hospitals to provide different packages of discounted services. For instance a woman in their child bearing years would be offered health care options that included maternity costs. After that time in her life has passed there would be no need to provide maternity options and it might reduce the cost of the health care coverage. What would force this system to work is every American's ability to say not to health insurance options and simply pay as they go. If someone is healthy and never sees a doctor why should they pay anything? I do understand that people who are at no fault of their own more sick than others would use more services. For those people the free market competition between doctors and hospitals would keep prices low. Nothing can be free even for the most poor in society. That sounds mean but it isn't, not really. If Americans don't pay taxes then they have more money to give to charity. This is a fact, not something we just say. Sure people want to buy more but they also want to give back, often to those who have little or nothing. Wealthy people love to get their names on college and hospital buildings. The free market creates opportunities that simply do not exist with government involvement and corruption. No matter what someone tells you, health care is not a right. It is a product that we can purchase if we choose. Let me put it another way. If a government can forcibly take money out of your pocket to provide something for another person where does it stop? How much is enough? Who watches what government does with that money they stole in the first place? Think I'm crazy? Why do all these private and religious hospitals exist? Because good people cared enough to support their fellow man when God gave those people more bounty than they needed. Corruption is a lot harder to grow when people give willingly to help others. The system would also not be burdened by illegal aliens once they are all sent home. Right now all those people can go into an emergency room ward at a hospital and get treated... for free. It isn't free, we the citizens are forced to pay for it so the quality of care goes down. The country that the illegal aliens are from now doesn't have to take care of those folks. That isn't right. It is theft. If we have no rules and fairness we have no future.

The take away is that when government is removed from the equation freedom and citizen choice exists. When government controls only poor quality and bad choices remain. If our founding fathers wanted free health care and high taxes and forever wars they would have written it in the Constitution. We would be the United Socialist States of America. We are supposed to be the exact opposite of this.

West Virginia has been utterly destroyed by government at the state and federal level. The solution is less government not more. When I watch the House of Delegates gather around as an old white mans club on tv to talk about what they will do to boost business growth and create jobs and fix education I get so angry. All that socialism dressed up pretty with the stench of horse crap that can never go away. The WV government will continue to fail all everything they attempt to do because they want to take the place of the free market. We already had all the freedom we needed by God, our government has done nothing but continue to take it away and steal our hard earned treasure. 

I don't have all the answers but I can rest assure you that the two establishment candidates for the US Senate who call themselves republican will continue to strangle our freedom and our wallets. Folks, one day we will wake up and we will all be poor, starving, and living with no freedoms.