It shouldn’t be hard to distill the problems with medical care in America down to something fixable within the current system. I mean, what other motive would there be in attempting to totally take over medical care by dismantling something that essentially works, and works well?

Charles Krauthammer states what should be the obvious in a recent editorial: “Worse, they are packed into a monstrous package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes -such as the 118 new boards, commissions and programs -is political expediency. The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency.”

So, what would he do to fix America’s medical problems? It is quite simple: “…do health care the right way -one reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity, arbitrariness and inefficiency.”

Start with tort reform. The democrats won’t touch this obvious problem with the current system (which continues in both pending bill): too much money is spent on malpractice claims and on medical treatment geared at preventing claims rather than on patient needs. Next, allow health insurance companies to compete in all states. Third, tax employer provided healthcare benefits. The unions hate that idea.

“The better choice is targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one -tort reform, interstate purchasing and taxing employee benefits. It would take 20 pages to write such a bill, not 2,000 -and provide the funds to cover the uninsured without wrecking both U.S. health care and the U.S. Treasury.”

The folks at Gallup have a new poll indicating that about 700 million people worldwide would prefer to live someplace else. That is more people than live in North and South America combined. Guess where the number 1 choice to move to is? That’s right, the United States.

We should be flattered that so many people want to move here. President Obama should perhaps take this in for a minute, especially since he seems to believe that the United States is not that desirable in the eyes of the world. More importantly, Congress needs to get their act together and realize that we will fast become a third world country if something is not done to restrict and control immigration. At this point it would seem that many members of Congress are more concerned about having new voters in their camp than they are about the general welfare of our country.

Social Security was originally supposed to be a trust fund that held Social Security payments for re-distribution to Social Security beneficiaries.

Congress kept looking at that fat purse of money and finally figured out a way to raid it to further their spending ambitions. It was really quite simple: just take the money out and replace it with an IOU. So, the “Trust Fund” actually has nothing in it. The claim Congress makes is that the “IOU” earns interests, so therefore this is a sound arrangement. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Here is the real scam: the “interest” is actually just an IOU as well. You have to stop and think about this for a moment to see how horrendous this is. Suppose you took out a loan at the bank for a home mortgage and they were willing to just take an IOU from you as collateral. Next, suppose that they were willing to accept monthly IOUs instead of payments. After 30 years, ignoring your situation, how would the bank’s balance sheet look if all their mortgages were done that way. It might look pretty good if the IOUs you gave them each month were being reported as income. THAT is exactly what is being done with Social Security. The IOUs are being reported as income to support the idea the Social Security is solvent until at least 2035. In fact, when more money is going out than is coming in, which will happen in about 4 years, then the IOU scam will unravel. Why will it unravel? Because real investors, whether American or foreign, are not stupid enough to accept IOUs. They will expect real interest payments and Social Security will no longer be generating real income with which to pay investors.