In response to my sole critic

In response to one of my last posts, a Dr. Charles Clark said:

First I want to say: Universal Health Care is a right and it is feasible.
As you say: put the tax dollars in a pot and distribute it to care for the sick. We are putting money in the pot, but it is not being distributed where it should be going. Much of it is going to pay for unnecessary surgical procedures, unnecessary diagnostics, for inappropriate utilization of services, for the cost of complications from poorly managed diabetes, from medication errors, from self referrals by providers to their owned facilities (day surgery, imaging centers, laboratories, unregulated home health agencies, even office dispensed medications and cosmetics. Unless providers are held accountable for over-budget expenditures, there will never be enough dollars to go around

Our present deplorable system-that leaves millions of people uncared for,-that does not measure up when we look at both costs and outcome, is not going away until we face the fact that we have to look at the root causes and take corrective action.

As you said, the Constitution guarantees life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If you talk to some of the people in this nation who are destined to die from lack of availability and accessability [sic] of appropriate health care, what do you think their answer will be about the guarantee. And liberty:? They are shackled to an extent that equals being confined to prison. And I don’t expect that you would find much happiness among them.

Get your head out of the sand and face reality.

According to Dr. Clark’s website, the URL to which he oh-so-conveniently placed after his post (maybe he should pay us for advertising?), he is a veteran of the medical system (and a novelist). So, I won’t attack him- indeed, I will only use his post as an indicator of the normal argument given by pro-universal health care nuts. This is the "I DESERVE IT. I WANT IT NOWWWWWWW!" argument- Very persuasive. However, while I won’t beat up on the good doctor, judging from his post, its safe to say that he’s not an economist.

While Dr. Clark makes a point that the current health care system is working poorly, I remind him that government intervention is that which causes the system to function poorly in the first place. More government intervention will NOT correct anything.

Since Dr. Clark and others who support universal health care never cite sources or studies, I will cite a few to support my stance- as if there aren’t enough on this website already.

http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010266

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/07/medicine.html

http://www.mackinac.org/archives/2000/v2000-12.pdf

http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv3n1.pdf

<a href="href="http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060226-4.htm">

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=c1c55309-756a-4c4a-a032-a1968442a1f7&k=77424

And that’s just the stuff I could find in five minutes.

Sorry, Dr. C, and all you other pro-universal health care nuts- its not a right and its not feasible.