Prescription for Disaster

On September 11, 2001 our government failed us. Despite massive budgets, impressive human and technological resources available to the government, 19 men armed with box cutters were able to turn aircraft into missiles. The only qualified success that day was aboard flight 93. The passengers ignored the rules, formed an ad hoc militia, and kept the terrorists from crashing their plane into a fourth building in Washington, D.C. With Todd Beamer's rallying cry, “Let's Roll,” they saved hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent lives on the ground while sacrificing their own on a field in Pennsylvania. These citizens responded with amazing speed to a threat America wasn't even aware of the previous day. We justifiably take pride in their actions.

Now this same government that has failed to secure our borders despite the explicit constitutional sanction to do so, has taken over our health care system in spite of the will of the people and constitutional restraints expressly put forth in the 10th Amendment.

The government’s past meddling in our health care system is what got us into our present problems. Rather than admitting their socialist mistakes of the past, liberals insist that they need to massively overhaul the existing system. Instead of instituting tort reform and other logical approaches President Obama and Democrats in Congress supply us with a 2,300 plus page law that we and they are supposed to read after they pass it. We don't need 159 new agencies and 16,000 new IRS agents. We need a functioning health care system!

The health care systems in Canada and the UK are pathetic. There are more MRI machines in Philadelphia than in all of Canada. Yet our leaders insist that somehow we are wrong because we are the only country that doesn't have socialized universal coverage. Instead of celebrating our exceptionalism, they demand we follow the rest of the lemmings over the cliff. Instead of cutting red tape and outrageous law suits Congress insists on more bureaucracy.

Doctors, patients, and the entrepreneurs in a free market can better solve our health care issues than can the government bureaucrats. Government, “solutions” invariably lead to waste, fraud, and abuse since there is no profit/loss motivation to keep things as efficient as possible. Instead government bureaucrats are rewarded for failure by ever increasing budgets.

We need a Congress that will listen to us, obey the Constitution, and unleash the entrepreneurs that have helped make this the greatest nation on earth! We need more people like Todd Beamer, and fewer like Steny Hoyer. So, “Let's Roll” to the voting booth in November and take our country back!