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May 15, 2008
American Medicine is too Good
The Harbinger
May 03, 2008
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© 2006, Carl Bednorz

Back in the old days when a person shoved a glass object up their anus, it would break and they would die. Evolution, for the most part, made sure that these impulses happened before one got a chance to procreate, thus ensuring the future existence of the species. In fact, saving these lives not only strains the social system and its resources, but occasionally leads to a fit person dead due to an unfit one shooting them in the face while hunting or leaving them to die at the bottom of a channel.

Nowadays, American physicians can fix all kinds of things that should, from a protection of the species standpoint, kill people every day. This is mostly due to America’s free-market, paid based on your abilities system. This system has to go!

The progressive voices in government have studied this problem, and have a tendered their solution – universal healthcare. Researches who have been studying ways to prevent this unnatural selection have not been creative enough to propose restructuring the entire system. Perhaps all of that research money that goes to places like the NIH or NSF should be redirected to political campaigns, from whence real solutions come.

Universal healthcare will undoubtedly have the following effects: cause a severe depression in the development of medical technology world-wide, reduce the salaries of doctors across the board – both reducing the attraction of smart people to the field and cutting the massive taxes they pay thus reducing money for research, allow a small group of people already siphoning unreasonable amounts of government resources to account for a disproportionate consumption of the available resources, and cut profit margins of pharmaceutical companies slowing down pharmaceutical research.

If you think these outcomes will only affect the US, you don’t have enough faith in political candidates’ ability to “think globally”. Aside from the quelling the ability of the pharmaceutical companies to use profits to offer discounts to countries in need, the American university system, which props up much of the world’s medical practices, will be deeply impacted.

These effects will allow natural selection to attain a foothold once again in the developed world, and more so in the developing world, thus securing the survival of the species.


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