Health Care

I wanted to weigh in on the current debate in the United States over health care. The first thing we need to remember is that we as Americans do better if each of us help our neighbor. And if we do it out of our own free will with our own money; that's real charity. It's not charity if it is done by coercion using the money of someone else. We need to get government out of our wallets so we can have money to help the people we want.

We also do need to ask why health care is so expensive. The simple answer is malpractice insurance. And why is that high? frivolous law suits. So we need tort reform first. The next question then is; why are personal insurance rates so high? simple answer; lack of competition. The car insurance industry is in the middle of price wars. Who hasn't heard of Geico? Why is this not happening with health insurance? because it's not sold the same way due to regulation.

So real health care looks like this;

Reduce taxes so people can give their money were they want and help who they want.

Lower the number of frivolous lawsuits through tort reform so as to reduce the cost of providing health care.

Deregulate the health insurance industry so it can be sold across state lines; allowing competition.

In short we need competition in health care. We need more choices and the freedom to make those choices. Creating a monopoly in health care would be a blow to quality health care for the same reasons monopolies are bad; it kills competition. And we know what competition brings, better service and lower cost. It's just plain simple economics.

God Bless the whole World?

While I was sitting at a stop light the other day I read a bumper sticker that at first seemed really nice but on further reflection made my stomach turn. The bumper sticker read, God bless the whole world, no exceptions.Now that sounds very nice and loving doesn't. I mean God should bless the whole world, not just America right. So what's wrong with that you ask. The trouble lies in the word bless. So I ask, what does it mean for God to "bless" something? In short it's like putting His stamp of approval on something. God looks at something and says, that's good, I like that and I want to support and encourage that kind of behavior.

So if we take that definition and reread the bumper sticker we have got a serious problem don't we. In short it means that if God were to look at the world He would like what he sees and declare it "good" That means all the wars, murder, rape,lying, adulteries, death, disease, abortions, stealing, theft and corruption God looks at and says, That's good, I like that and I want to support and encourage that kind of behavior. So this nice sounding bumper sticker turns out to be an indictment of God. In short it says God likes evil and approves of it. But does He? If God is good and just what should His response be to the World and America when he looks at it? I'll look at that in my next post and reflect a little on the problem of evil which ask the question; If God is good and all powerful why is there evil in the world?