Conservatives Killed the Tea Party

Obama is ahead in the polls and is likely to win a second term for one simple reason:

Conservatives failed to present
(or even discuss)
alternatives to ObamaCare.

Anyone who dares bring up an alternative to PPACA is immediately thrown out the door by conservatives who, from the beginning, have been set on capturing (not repealing) ObamaCare.

At the end of the Tea Party and Republican primary, we are left with a sinister candidate who has already declared that he intends to keep ObamaCare. Romney's plan is a symbolic repeal of ObamaCare followed by an implementation of RomneyCare (which is the same thing as ObamaCare.)

The only hope for restoring America is for patriots to turn from the Republican Party and run a massive campaign to split the vote. If the people voted third party and deprived Obama a majority, then we might still have a future.

If a third party split the vote, there might be somebody, somewhere who is willing to engage in a discussion free market health care.

A proper discussion would question whether insurance (group funding of individual consumption) is really free market health care. If it is not, is there a way to restore the concept of self-funded health care (HINT A Health Savings Account + High Deductible Insurance is not an alternative to insurance.)

Sadly, conservatives will never talk about free market health care reform, because the leading elite of the conservative movement do not believe in a free market.

Conservatism traces back to the French Revolution and the writings of the royalist Hegel. From the get go, conservatism was designed as a movement in which the leaders simply recite free market rhetoric, but then grab power when in power.

The driving issue of true Conservatism is preserving the social order. Following Machiavelli's lead, conservatives will pretend to be free marketeers while creating laws to protect the ruling elite from the market.

Conservatives will never discuss alternatives to insurance because insurance helps defend their ideal of a top down social order with a clear ruling elite and the majority reduced to servitude.

The very first "conservatives" in America were the Tories who sided with the British during the Revolution.

There will never be a day when a "conservative" talks about free market health care reform, because conservatives really don't believe in freedom. Conservatives are driven by the single issue of recreating a class society.

Sadly, by posing as defenders of the free market, conservatives have systematically discredited the free market in the eyes of the world.

RobamaCare is Here to Stay

I listened to a Meet The Press interview with Romney. About 20 years into the interview.Romney drops the bombshell. Romney intends to keep major portions of PPACA.

The spin is that Romney would replace PPACA with a  program based on the Massachusetts health care plan (which was the basis for PPACA to begin with).

I should point out that even if Romney repealed PPACA, we'd still be stuck with the legislation.

The heart of PPACA is a network of Health Exchanges implemented at the state level. Even if Romney wanted to repeal ObamaCare, we'd be stuck with the Exchanges.

The one and only way to rid ourselves of ObamaCare is for a free market oriented group to come up with an alternative to the Exchanges ... which is unlikely because CONSERVATIVES ARE WITLESS COWARDS WHO ARE SCARED TO DISCUSS IDEAS!

I haven't given up completely. If there is anyone who is willing to discuss free market health care reform, I have a plan that might work. I am stuck in Utah and can find no one willing to question the central authority. Here is my contact form

Own Your Health

I was absolutely floored last night while watching the introduction to Michelle Obama's speech. Ms. Obama said something on the order of: "The best way to improve your health is to own your health."

Sorry if I didn't get the wording right. The statement through me for a loop.

Our health care system is built on the assumption that we can abstract off the health individuals into pools. Conservatives want the pools owned by corporate giants. Socialists want health owned by the state.

The concept that people own their health is currently not even on the political spectrum.

For the last several years I've explored this concept that people, not a third party, are the rightful owners of their body. Both Conservatives and Progressives will escort you to the door if you question third party ownership of your body.

If you owned your body and and your health, then you should own the primary resources used for the care of your body.

if people owned their health, then we should be thinking of ways to break up the pools and third, rather than seeking ways to mandate insurance.

I couldn't find a youtube video of Michelle Obama's exact quote, but here is a part of the DNC presentation that clarifies the Democratic Position by clearly stating that the people belong to the goverment:
The narrator says: 'Government Only Thing We All Belong To'

Doctor in the Mirror

Dr. Reed Tuckson is hawking a book called The Doctor in the Mirror (Buy at Better World Books) that promotes the radical concept that patients should have dome involvement in their health. Dr. Tuckson argues that if the people who actually own a body have some control of their body, that they can reduce health care expenses.

This radical notion that people should be involved in their health care flies directly in the face of the Medical Establish. The Medical Establishment holds that people are members of a collective and that individual care should be administered in relation to the collective. Walking through the doors of the University of Utah Hospital, it is abundantly clear that patients exist for the benefit of the doctors. The notion that a doctor is there to serve patients is laughable.

By suggesting that individuals should have the driving role in their own health, Dr. Reed has clearly veered from established thought and in to the fantasies of free market fiction.

Being a scifi fan myself, I thought I would take the fantasy one step futher.

What if people actually owned their body?

I know this is fantasy. Conservatives believe that your body is owned by your employer. Liberals believe your body is property of the state.

But, what if your body was actually your property. What if your thumbs, fingers, feet, belly button and mind were things that you rightfully possessed and rightfully controlled?

I know that I am into fantasy that is counter to thinking in the world of insurance and health care ... but bear with me.

What if your body was your property. What if your mind was a thing given to you by God for you to control?

If such what ifs were true, then the accepted thinking of the insurance industry and the medical establishment are false.

If you owned your body, shouldn't you own the resources used to care for your body?

If individuals owned their body, then the notion of using group funding of individual consumption is inherently corrupt.

As mentioned, I am a scifi fan. I've explored the radical concept that people owned their bodies in depth. Furhtermore, I assert that I can prove that the problem in modern health care rise from the absurdity of using group funding for individual consumption.

I hold that your are more than just the doctor in the middle. I hold that you own yourself and that doctors are here simply to sell you services to help you achieve your health goals.

Arizona Exchange

According to Americans For Prosperity, it looks like the uber-Conservative state of Arizona is gearing up to impose a Health Exchange. AFP is holding a debate on the exchanges  Sept 5, 2012 at the Goldwater Institute.

I really wish I could attend. This is the first public meeting that I've come across that questions the Health Exchanges.

PPACA (ObamaCare) is a network of health exchanges regulated at the Federal Level and implemented at the state level. Romney's promise to repeal ObamaCare will simply remove the Federal regulation, but will leave all the state run exchanges in place.

Romney will repeal the bill the created the exchanges, but leave the exchanges in place.

The end result of this political move is to capture the exchanges.

The Romney/Ryan administration will then seek to relabel the exchanges as the free market alternative to Obama's socialism.

The problem is that the Health Exchanges are not free market. The Health Exchanges in RomneyCare and ObamaCare create a captured market that centralizes health care and allows the ruling elite to skim billions off the system.

Wake up America. The fact that the uber-Conservative state of Arizona is following the path of RomneyCare should tell us that our nation is still headed in the wrong direction.

Both RomneyCare and ObamaCare are founded on the false assumption that insurance is the only possible way to fund health care. The goal of the Health Exchanges is to force everyone into highly centralized network of insurance options.

The best way to defeat this beast is to debate alternatives to insurance. I am still at the ready if there is any group brave enough to stand against the Democratic and Republican beast that has taken over our nation.

Replace It With What?

I found Romney's speech (and the whole Republican National Conference for that matter) big on image, but short on substance.

I am not supporting Romney because I know that if we have just another power exchange with no substantive change in our economic theory, we will not be able to restore our nation.

The convention left us with a great image of how wonderful Romney is and how the world will end if Obama is re-elected. But there was no substance.

The closest hint of substance was a vague promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

REPLACE IT WITH WHAT?

The reason I am so completely dead set against Romney is that in four years of debate about health care, I have seen no substantive debate on free market health care reform.

I worked myself into abject poverty driving to Reno, Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas to find a Conservative who would talk about substantive free market health care reform.

There may be substantive debate about Free Market Health Care reform that I don't know about. But it's not at the RNC.  The Utah Freedom Conference doesn't even have free market health care on the agenda.

In Utah, the Conservative Republicans shoved a state run health exchange down our throat and actively silenced all opposition.

For those who are wondering. PPACA (ObamaCare) is a network of health exchanges regulated at the federal level but run at the state level.

Since the Health Exchanges are run at the state level, we will find that even if Romney repeals the Federal Regulations we are stuck with the corrupt and captured health exchanges.

As long as the conservative establishment steadfastly refuses to discuss alternatives to health exchanges, American patriots need to stand against the exchanges.

The exchanges are corrupt. They will collapse into socialism. The only way to restore America is to have a viable alternative to exchanges. This cannot happen if conservatives are spineless drones that will not discuss alternatives.

Yes, I know I am a pariah. I don't give a crap about myself. All I want to see is someone where talk about alternatives to insurance. (NO, A Health Savings Account tacked onto a high deductible insurance policy is not a viable alternative to insurance. The HSA+HDHC policy is a formula for disaster … which I can easily prove.).

This blog (The Medical Savings and Loan) is simply an effort to start a discussion about free market health exchanges. The theme of the blog is that the problem in health care is that we use group funding for individual consumption and that the solution is to restore the concept of self-funded health care.

While I had such hopes that Republicans would start discussing free market reforms, I am disgusted after the substanceless Republican National Convention.

On the bright side, I am happy to see that the Republican Party is full of energetic speakers and enthusiasm.

This energy will wane if Romney wins the election, just as the energy for the left has evaporated.

Doesn't anyone remember how entrenched and disheartened the freedom movement was by the end of the Bush administration? This will happen if Romney wins.

However, if Libertarians split the vote and Obama gets a Lame Duck term, then both the Republican and Democratic Party will spend four years working on freedom agendas to recapture the independents.

I feel completely disheartened with the complete lack of substance of the Republican National Convention. It is funny how my mind always grasps at straws, but the freedom of America is hanging by a thread and we have to grasp at whatever we can as it collapses.

History has shown that the Right can be as great a threat to freedom as the Left. (The Hegelian Right came before the Hegelian Left).

Until Romney gives a clear idea on what he wants to replace ObamaCare with, liberty-loving voters should plan to vote third party.

Reforming Medicare

I applaud the nomination of Paul Ryan. He is one of the few major political candidates who is willing to take on the tough issues that face our nation. Mr. Ryan is likely to receive a great deal of criticism for his efforts to reform Medicare.

Unfortunately, there is merit to the attacks against Ryan for this effort. If Mr. Ryan cuts Medicare spending without corresponding financial reforms, then we will produce the feared result of creating a society that fails to care for its seniors.

The problem with health care can be summed up in one word::

INSURANCE

Before we can reform Medicare, we simply must create a free market alternative to employer based insurance.

Employer based insurance creates an ugly paradigm in which people receive care from their employer.

The moment a person retires, the care is gone.

This problem is inherent with group funding of individual consumption. When people move between groups, the change disrupts health care.

The solution is to create a system of individual funding of individual consumption.

I have a presentation called "The Medical Savings and Loan" in which I demonstrate that we would get optimal results in health care if we restored the concept of self funded health care. I would be happy to travel  to any group in the mountain west that is willing to discuss free market health care reform. Here is my contact form: