My best friend is constantly losing her cell phone.   She called me the other day and said, "Vanessa, since I lost my phone, I was able to get a brand new plan!  My plan will allow me to have unlimited daytime minutes for a flat rate of $49.99!"  

I started thinking about cell phones before they were the craze.  The first cell phone plan I had, I received 300 anytime minutes for $29.99.  You remember, right?   The plans became better as more and more companies began competing for the businesses of consumers like you and me.   The prices of plans went down, the quality of  cellular phones went up, as the coverage rates became more competitive. 

Ah!  The joys of the free-markets!

The free-markets drive the prices of goods/services down whenever there is an abundance of options for the consumer.  I am going to write that again to make sure it marinates.   The free-markets drive the prices of goods and services down whenever there is an abundance of options for the consumer.  This is why now, depending on where one lives, many people (like my best friend) can get cell phone plans for $49.99 for an unlimited amount of minutes.  All it took was one cell phone carrier to come up with a brilliant idea and the rest of the companies followed suit to make sure they could keep the existing consumers and solicit the business of new consumers on the markets.

I know, I know...what does this have to do with health care?

Obama and his liberal homies want to offer Americans a government "option" for health care.  Some experts believe that companies will drop the private coverage that they have for their employees, eventually forcing their employees to get the government "option" instead.  It's mind boggling.  Just last year, Medicare trustees warned about a significant dearth in funding for the second year in a row!   Don't get me started on Medicaid.  One of my coworkers was complaining about her knee pain.  I asked her if she thought about getting surgery for it, but she said Medicaid won't cover it.  A few weeks ago one of my liberal coworkers was going through the Medicare website to help her retired parents find coverage for some services.  After being on the Medicare website for over an hour, she finally looks at me and says, "I think they make this website complicated on purpose!  They make it difficult for people to navigate and find the answers to their inquiries on purpose!"  I just looked at her and nodded my head.  I didn't say anything at the time, but I was thinking, "And this is what you and others like yourself want for EVERYONE else?"

I've been in doctor's offices where most of the patient's receive government health care.  It's not pretty.  The quality of health care and the service is different. 

You wanna know what the benefits of federalism are?   I'll tell you: If one state tries something and it fails we have the option of moving to another state.  Hence the reason why conservatives believe in limited federal government.  The states are free to govern as they wish so long as they don't contradict the laws of the constitution.  Which brings me to my next point: Hawaii tried giving Universal Children's Health care Coverage.  They dropped it after a few months.  They dropped it because the people who could afford health care for their children stopped paying for it to get the "free" government sponsored coverage.  This bankrupted the system.  You can read the article here.

Oregon has state sponsored health care.  I promise I am not making up what you are about to read.  Conservatives such as myself don't have the luxury of making unsubstantiated claims.  Anyways, the state of Oregon cover's assisted suicide but their "health care" plan doesn't cover certain forms of "life-prolonging" cancer treatments.  Sadly, you can read the following article here.

I think that the states should have some form of tax-payer subsidized health care coverage for children, the disabled, and other wards of the state.  However, if you are able to work and take care of yourself, our government should create incentives to drive the costs of private health care costs down so everyone can afford it.  The American people are invested in quality and affordability not another bureaucracy telling us how we can and can't receive health care.

Government subsidies don't make things cheaper.  There is a strong, positive correlation between government subsidies and an increase of prices.  When the government control's that which should be left to the private sector, and they don't allow market forces to drive prices down through free and open competition- the consumers suffer. 

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Rangel and co. don't want their children on Medicaid.  So, ask yourself, why would they want that for you and your posterity?