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Edwards Wants Mandatory State-Managed Health Care
Socialized medicine means big business
and big brother
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In true 'cradle to grave' big government intrusion style,
Democratic hopeful John Edwards has stated that under his
presidency every citizen in the U.S. would be forced by
law to enroll in a state- managed socialized health care
system where regular check ups, including mental screenings,
would be mandatory.
"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires
that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd
sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse.
"If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose
not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in
and be checked and make sure that you are OK." Edwards
is
reported to have said.
The report continues:
He noted, for example, that women would be required to
have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat
"the first trace of problem." Edwards and his
wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her
breast cancer had returned and spread.
Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover
preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan
would include mental health care as well as dental and
vision coverage for all Americans.
"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically
from birth to death," he said.
The former North Carolina senator said all presidential
candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked
one question: Does your plan cover every single American?"
"Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain
what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy
of health care," he said. "Because in my view,
everybody is worth health care."
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The vision of an America where every citizen
is forced by law to participate in health screenings overseen
by the government should set stark warning bells ringing.
The level of micromanagement and the expansion
of government into everyday life this would entail represents
the antithesis of the founding principles of a constitutional
Republic and the free market.
Edwards has also admitted that the plan would
cost up to $120 billion a year, which he proposes covering
by ending tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000
per year.
The assertion that every American should also
undergo mandatory psychological evaluation by the government
will be seen by many as a step too far.
While champions of Edwards have lauded his
proposal as a shot at the big pharmaceuticals' monopoly
on healthcare, the suggestion echoes the now infamous and
much maligned Bush "New
Freedom Initiative", a commission for
which was established in April 2002, whereupon it recommended
comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers
of all ages," including preschool children.
In addition to the big brother implications of the government
having access to personal medical records, concerns were
also raised over the fact that members of the New Freedom
Commission have served on advisory boards for several drug
companies, while others have direct ties to the Texas Medication
Algorithm Project which promotes the use of newer, more
expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs and has
notorious ties to the major pharmaceuticals.
In 2004 The British medical journal reported on these ties:
Olanzapine (trade name Zyprexa), one of the atypical
antipsychotic drugs recommended as a first line drug in
the Texas algorithm, grossed $4.28bn (£2.35bn; 3.56bn)
worldwide in 2003 and is Eli Lilly's top selling drug.
A 2003 New York Times article by Gardiner Harris reported
that 70% of olanzapine sales are paid for by government
agencies, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Eli Lilly, manufacturer of olanzapine, has multiple ties
to the Bush administration. George Bush Sr was a member
of Lilly's board of directors and Bush Jr appointed Lilly's
chief executive officer, Sidney Taurel, to a seat on the
Homeland Security Council. Lilly made $1.6m in political
contributions in 2000—82% of which went to Bush and
the Republican Party.
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The New Freedom Initiative has nothing to
do with freedom and everything to do with big business,
big government and indentured slavery.
John Edwards' scheme is a re-packaged version
of the same thing.
Alarm bells should also be ringing given the
fact that Edwards has long been obsessed with overhauling
healthcare and making a fortune out of doing so. When he
was a practicing lawyer, Edwards capitalized on
faux scientific lawsuits
that helped
drive up insurance rates, and contributed to
driving up medical costs, thereby helping
drive millions of people right out of the medical system
altogether. Edwards
made tens of millions of dollars in contingency
fees.
In addition Edwards' current campaign has
so
far has accepted about $24,000 from officials
in the health care industry, including executives from the
drug maker Pfizer and the insurance firm Blue Cross Blue
Shield. And when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination
in 2004, individuals employed by Novartis, Purdue Pharma
and other health care and drug firms donated $25,700 to
his campaign.
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