The key to solving health care quality and cost is to make medical and insurance providers compete for the people's market dollars instead of tax dollars. As long as providers are competing for government dollars under government controls, they know that the subsidies and monopoly will allow them to continue to raise prices and reduce service quality. They all know this of course, which is why the biggest lie of socialized medicine is that it helps the poor. Elites know the truth that socialized medicine is actually a huge welfare program for the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
The media has made a big to-do about the Rick Santelli "rant" on CNBC recently. The first thing that anyone needs to know about the media is that it is never intentionally meant to be informative or helpful in a way that affects their lives in a meaningful and positive way. What the media IS meant for is selling products and controlling information to serve the interests of those who run it. Any instance of the contrary is unintended or accidental. That said, let us all please avoid the fantasy that this "rant" we all witnessed was a moment of truth slipping through the cracks or that it was anything other than a staging point for controlled and marginalized debate. This particular type of propaganda always reminds me of a conflict one might have with someone who is completely wrong or crazy yet some incense-burning, age of Aquarius conscious wacka-doodle floats out of the woodworks and insists that "there are two sides to every story and the truth is somewhere...
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