Those pesky politicians, they still don’t get it.

Everyone is enamored about health care reform or universal health care, but what no one is saying is that the U.S. Government has already made great strides to show how well it can deal with health care for it’s citizens.  CHIP, Social Security and SSI or Social Security Disability, Veterans Administration health care, are all sterling examples of how the U.S. Government cannot do an acceptable job managing health care.  The New Deal and the Great Society sounded good when first put out in the public by the federal government but how has those programs fared since being put into action?  Social Security is going essentially bankrupt, welfare programs are a joke.  The federal government enacted programs that in most cases where passed on to the States to administer while the promised funding is not always there.  People who could really benefit from programs are denied help while others make a living receiving benefits.

If the history of the twentieth century has taught us anything is that the federal government does not do a very good job in dealing with benefits for the citizens of this country.  Maybe that is why the founders of this nation did not give the power of micro-managing the people to the federal government in the constitution.  That responsibility was left to the individual states.  People from through out the world come to the U.S. to get health care treatment because of nationalized health care in their home countries has made getting treatment near impossible.  That should tell us something!  Regulation of trade between the states is one charge of the national government so the setting of regulations of interstate trade is the  responsibility of the U.S. government, what happens within the boundaries of the individual state is the responsibility of that state as long as it does not violate the constitution of the United States.  Let Pennsylvania meet the needs of the people of Pennsylvania, Texas meet the needs of people living in that state.  I don’t need a President from Chicago nor a House Speaker from San Francisco telling me in rural Pennsylvania what I need to live or how to live.  We have a local and State government to meet the needs here if even they can get it right.