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[[Heritage Foundation]] expert Robert Moffitt observed: | [[Heritage Foundation]] expert Robert Moffitt observed: | ||
*Liberal candidates generally embrace expanding government programs. Expanding government control over the financing and delivery of medical services will guarantee even bigger bureaucracy, higher taxes, and increasingly detailed regulations governing the delivery of care. Conservative candidates generally emphasize the need to re-energize the market and make individuals and families the key decision-makers in the system. [http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/09/couricandco/entry3152298.shtml] | *Liberal candidates generally embrace expanding government programs. Expanding government control over the financing and delivery of medical services will guarantee even bigger bureaucracy, higher taxes, and increasingly detailed regulations governing the delivery of care. Conservative candidates generally emphasize the need to re-energize the market and make individuals and families the key decision-makers in the system. [http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/09/couricandco/entry3152298.shtml] | ||
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| + | On the morning of March 23, 2010, United States President Obama signed the countries first universal health care bill into law, after it was passed by the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives 220 to 212. The bill is expected to extend coverage to 32 million Americans, and will ban will insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions. | ||
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| + | Congress has never required Americans to purchase anything before, and most [[conservatives]] see this as a violation of the [[Constitution]]. Heritage Institute scholars Randy Barnett, Nathaniel Stewart, and Todd F. Gaziano state, | ||
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| + | {{cqopte|Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the power to mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service...Therefore, because this claim of power by Congress would literally be without precedent, it could only be upheld if the Supreme Court is willing to create a new constitutional doctrine.<ref>[http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/12/Why-the-Personal-Mandate-to-Buy-Health-Insurance-Is-Unprecedented-and-Unconstitutional ''Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional''], December 9, 2009</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 00:20, March 27, 2010
Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being. It usually involves preventive medicine as well as drugs and surgery.
In the United States of America, people pay for health care using insurance. In other countries throughout the world, the government raises taxes in order to provide "socialized medicine". This has the effect of generally less efficient health care, as well as providing a disincentive to work.
Here are remarkable government statistics on health care:[1]
- As the largest industry in 2006, health care provided 14 million jobs—13.6 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 438,000 jobs for the self-employed.
- 7 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are health care related.
- Health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry.
Politics of health care
Heritage Foundation expert Robert Moffitt observed:
- Liberal candidates generally embrace expanding government programs. Expanding government control over the financing and delivery of medical services will guarantee even bigger bureaucracy, higher taxes, and increasingly detailed regulations governing the delivery of care. Conservative candidates generally emphasize the need to re-energize the market and make individuals and families the key decision-makers in the system. [1]
Universal health care
On the morning of March 23, 2010, United States President Obama signed the countries first universal health care bill into law, after it was passed by the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives 220 to 212. The bill is expected to extend coverage to 32 million Americans, and will ban will insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Congress has never required Americans to purchase anything before, and most conservatives see this as a violation of the Constitution. Heritage Institute scholars Randy Barnett, Nathaniel Stewart, and Todd F. Gaziano state,
{{cqopte|Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the power to mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service...Therefore, because this claim of power by Congress would literally be without precedent, it could only be upheld if the Supreme Court is willing to create a new constitutional doctrine.[2]