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The Proposed Health Care Reform Bill Makes It All Worse.

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So far, no less than six proposals for health care reform have been put forth in Congress, two of which are out of committee and most of the rest of which will probably never make it any further than the committee tables they’ve landed on now.

All of these proposals are different, but the one expected to get somewhere in the congress starts life as a huge one thousand (1,000) plus page bill in the House of Representatives.

Obviously, health care is a big issue and will require a big bill to fix.

Right?

Well, maybe big issues need big fixes sometimes, but the health care bill won’t fix anything but Washington’s stranglehold on Americans.

Making it tighter, of course. The bill addresses none of the reforms that are really needed.

In fact, the bill addresses no reforms at all, unless you consider adding bigger and more government to the problem a “reform”.

It doesn’t do anything for removing the mandates and red tape towards allowing affordable, high-deductible health insurance with wider choices of care.

It doesn’t remove the tax disparity between employer-provided health care and self-purchased health care or the health care purchases of the self-employed.

No enactment of tort reform to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals that happen daily.

Nor does it add any kind of voluntary contribution to help those in need or encourage any private charities to be doing the same.

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Proposed Health Care Reform Bill

In short, the proposed health care bill doesn’t do any kind of reform at all. It just creates more government.

Even its proponent’s mantra “single payer” could be fixed just by removing the state restrictions on allowing cross-border coverage.

Something that is perfectly within the prevue of a Constitutional government.

Not that anyone interesting in this health care bill cares about the Constitution.

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Proposed Health Care Reform Bill

In fact, the biggest health reform of all in this country would be to change our diets.

Or, more precisely, the over-packaged and over-processed foods we have readily available in the grocery store.

The average American diet consists of only 7% fruits and vegetables (raw), 42% dairy and animal-based foods, and 51% refined and processed foods.

The numbers should be very different for a healthy life!

In the 1940s and 1950s in America, our diets were largely of healthy foods.

We ate more meat and dairy than most nations, but overall our total intake was extremely balanced and healthy.

We ate good food from good sources and well-managed farms.

We also had relatively few chronic diseases, much lower rates of degenerative disease, etc.

We also had the world’s best health care system and technology.

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