THE LOGIC OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REGARDING HEALTH CARE AND OTHER BOLOGNA
What Americans have learned from the Republican Party opposition to a Government option health care entity is that the most important factor in health care in America, is PROFIT; yet, Kaiser Permanente is the most highly regarded of health plans by consumer advocates and Kaiser Permanente is a non-profit organization that isn´t even required to pay Federal income tax.
The most frightening boogey-man the Republican Party can conjure up that might destroy American health care is SOCIALISM and the antithesis of socialism is competition; the key to a socialistic or nonprofit business entity, called a cooperative, is cooperation which is a word Republicans find so repugnant that it should be removed from the English Dictionary, though every day public school teachers desperately try to teach children to cooperate.
Republicans believe that the United States Government is too inept and unqualified to provide universal health care for Americans, just because it is government and all government is bad and inept; yet the Republican Party lauds the U.S. Government´s military which has been unable to apprehend one man, Osama bin Laden who has been at large for over eight years and the U.S. Military would appear to be the most obvious example of the ineptness of government.
The Republican Party and many doctors believe that government universal health care would be detrimental to the health of Americans because government is not capable of efficiently doing anything; yet most doctors learned to read in the public schools, graduated from medical schools associated with public universities, and it is a fact that many Republicans even get their health care from the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Army Hospitals, or Medicare.
Republicans are inclined to believe that their nation leads the world in developing technology and research because of our superior educational institutions which is why foreign students want to attend American schools and universities; interestingly, America is the only Western Civilized nation without universal health care because the Republican Party thinks universal medical care is socialistic and wrong, although the preponderance of American educational institutions are public entities and therefore, socialistic.
The Republican Party purports to believe that competition of Health Care Insurers is the key to Americans getting adequate health care; however, the Republican Party voted to exempt Health Care Insurers from America´s Anti-Trust Laws meaning that Republicans virtually allowed Health Care Insurers to have a monopoly and eliminate competition among them.
Richard Moore Blankenburg San Diego, California U.S.A. Read my blog, Quixotic Tales at: http://quixotictales.escapenet.ch/

