What Is No Longer Being Taught … Episode 4

What Is No Longer Being Taught … Episode 4

Episode 4: Socialism and Medical Goods and Services

Prior to WW II only about 20% of the population had insurance to cover medical goods and services. After WW II 80% had insurance. What happened? The post WW II wage freeze is what happened. Employers found that offering medical insurance was a non taxable way to increase the wages of the workers. This is how medical insurance came to be associated with having a job. 

Prior to 1965 physicians would write off a sizable amount of their billings. They took care of people simply because they were people. What changed? Medicare and insurances. Rising costs can be directly related to removing the direct interaction between the customer (patient) from the service provider (physicians, hospitals, etc.) Middlemen tend increase costs. Because of socialist policies people are now required to pay for services that they will not need. Why should a single male pay for an insurance policy which contains services covering abortion, birth control pills/devices, mammograms, gyn exams, deliveries, and other things related to females?

Insurance is a bet about risk, not about prepaying for known, recurring items. Insurance protects against catastrophic events. It is a bet that should something happen the company with take care of expenses. It is a bet that both the person and the company hopes no one loses. The person bets and hopes to never have to use the insurance. The insurance company hopes that the insurance is not ever used either. Both parties do not want to use the insurance!

What we call “insurance” today “covers” a lot of routine items that were once paid for out of pocket and not considered “catastrophic.” Today the coverage is more of prepaid services than true insurance. Being coerced into paying in advance for something that will not be used (see example above) is expensive and unnecessary.

Wanting to be a good humanitarian is far different from being a socialist. 

Socialism’s historical evidence demonstrates its totalitarian nature. A person who identifies as a socialist identifies, either knowingly or unknowingly (through ignorance) with the history and practice of socialism which is one of control, death, and destruction.

Mr. Reagan, before he became President, had an excellent speech on the evils of socialized medicine. He noted that if the government controls medicine, the government controls the people. Very true.

So, yes, socialism is by its nature very, very dark. Any misconceptions regarding socialism today comes from lack of teaching its proper history and understanding of the failures of socialism and the abject poverty, death, and destruction caused by it.