[kitchencabinetforum] GOVERNMENT CANNOT FORCE CITIZENS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE

I advise Obama to visit a Greek public hospital to get an idea of how Obamacare he is proposing to American people would look like. These hospitals do not have medicines, soap, gloves, and needles! If you go there for a surgery, your life is at great risk. Your relatives will have to buy all the needed supplies from the drugstores. Moreover, surgeons refuse to operate unless they receive a secret bribe! To see a doctor you have to call to make an appointment, but the phone is always busy. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The limits of life are constantly expanding, without regard for the well-being
or will of the patient. In some emergency rooms, half of all admissions now come
from nursing homes. If someone who is chronically ill has a heart attack or gets
pneumonia there, the most sensible thing to do is to make sure that they don't
suffer, and to refrain from doing anything else. But this is all too rare.
Instead, old people, who are dying, are torn out of their familiar surroundings,
rushed off to hospital in an ambulance, resuscitated and given artificial
respiration. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Fifty doctors who worked at the largest hospital in Athens had performed five hundred cosmetic surgeries, but they reported appendix, heart, and eye operations in patient files. They did that because cosmetic surgery is not covered by insurance, and they had sent the bills to the patients' health insurance agencies. It was a gang, and it even had the audacity to place the cosmetic surgery at the top of their priority lists, while patients with serious conditions and emergency cases were kept waiting. The case still hasn't seen the inside of a courtroom for many years. It often seems as if Greece had no judiciary. The judiciary itself is the big patient!

I run for the Greek Parliament with Democratic Alliance in Athens B', in order to save Greece from kleptocracy, huge regulation, and huge taxation. Please ask all Athenians you know to vote in this important election. Basil Venitis, venitis@gmail.com

Many patients want their doctors to help them end their life with dignity,
because they can no longer tolerate their suffering. There are situations in
which it isn't just ethically justified, but in which doctors have a duty to do
this. There are myriad situations in which a doctor is called upon to relieve
the suffering of someone who is severely ill, and in a hopeless situation, and
to conduct this in the manner in which the patient wants. In this sense, the
doctor should see assisted suicide as a kind of palliative measure.

The individual mandate central to State health insurance is unconstitutional. The provision would force citizens to buy health insurance. A reasonable constitution created a government limited to its enumerated powers. Everything a parliament is allowed to do is spelled out. The powers not delegated to the government by the constitution are reserved to the people. http://venitism.blogspot.com

By forcing individuals to buy health insurance, a parliament has entered new territory. If a parliament can penalize a passive individual for failing to engage in commerce, the enumeration of powers in the constitution would have been in vain for it would be difficult to perceive any limitation on government power, and we would have a constitution in name only. Surely this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended.

Stupid governments seek to nationalize health care by placing so many restrictions and unfunded mandates on private insurance companies that they will go out of business. Government will then step in to manage Medicare for the entire population, rather than only the elderly. The government monopoly on health care will most surely go just about as well as the monopoly on the post office or public education. Medicare, even if kept only for the elderly population, is going bankrupt. The only question is when, not if, Medicare along with State retirement insurance will run out of money.

Our lives will be in the hands of doctors who have been told that they don't matter and that they are employees of the State. Their incentive will no longer be to provide excellent care. Their incentive will be to simply clock in, clock out, go through the motions and retire as soon as the government pension kicks in. Not all that different from many existing government employees.

The early result is a veritable flood of controversial rules and regulations, administrative decisions, and guidelines directly affecting the lives of all citizens. This regulatory regime, administered by unelected bureaucrats, is even more onerous because of the fundamental flaws of the hastily enacted legislation itself, including undefined provisions and unrealistic timeliness. Those with the knowledge, access, and influence with the Administration are more likely to obtain exemptions than those who are not so fortunate. The new law allows the HHS Secretary to apply the provisions of the law and to enforce it as she sees fit, thus granting the Secretary the right to determine winners and losers.

In a spirit of compassion for all, every competent adult has the incontestable
right to humankind's ultimate civil and personal liberty, the right to die in a
manner and at a time of his own choosing. Whereas modern medicine has brought
great benefits to humanity, it cannot entirely solve the pain and distress of
the dying process.

I run for the Greek Parliament with Democratic Alliance in Athens B', in order to save Greece from kleptocracy, huge regulation, and huge taxation. Please ask all Athenians you know to vote in this important election. Basil Venitis, venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com

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