ALbert Einstein is probably the best known and most highly revered scientist of the twentieth century, and is associated with major revolutions in our thinking about time, gravity, and the conversion of matter to energy (E=mc2). Although never coming to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: “Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in “Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists.” This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: “I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” Einstein’s famous epithet on the “uncertainty principle” was “God does not play dice” – and to him this was a real statement about a God in whom he believed. A famous saying of his was “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” While Albert EInstein was technically not a Christian, EInstein had an unshakeable belief in the Divine Creator.

1. Opening up the health insurance market like the auto insurance is. Current federal health insurance regulations make little monopolies of each state when it comes to health insurance and thus there is no free-market-based price control due to competition for your business.

2. Tort Reform: Frivilous lawsuits cause malpractice insurance premiums to skyrocket causing doctors to raise rates to cover skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums. Can you say “duh?”

3. Private sector insurance cooperatives: I use an insurance cooperative for my homeowners and auto insurance lowering my premiums about 66% for homeowners and 30% for auto.

4. Decreased federal regulations, etc. Doctors are not IT professionals, lawyers, or business managers. I want a cardiologist who knows hearts inside and out … and I do not really care if he or she is an expert on complying with federal regulations on securing electronic medical records using the NIST risk assessment model described in the 400 pages of NIST Special Publication 800-53A. Medical practices now have to hire teams of IT consultants, lawyers, and busines managers to try and sift through, and comply with, new regulations ad nauseum coming down the pike (many due to Obamacare). Guess what … that makes costs go up! I have some knowledge in this area and some of these new regulations are so poorly thought out and so poorly written, that to be in compliance with this regulation … you are forced to be out of compliance with that regulation.

The fact is that Obamacare is a poorly written, poorly thought-out travesty of a bill that shows just how in-over-their-heads the Obama administration actually is. It is, at its core, a big govenment power-grab disguised as a healthcare bill. It was essentially written by ACORN and this administration (by its own admission) had no idea what was in it before they passed it. It is already leading to higher healthcare costs and higher taxes. Rationed care due to prohibitive costs is just around the corner. And, it gives the federal government more control of our lives. If Obama can tell us what health insurance we have to buy and fine us if we don’t; how long will it be before he can tell us what car to buy, what soda pop to drink, what radio station to listen to, what church we can’t go to, or what bubble gum our kids can chew?

A heart condition and/or diabetes are real concerns … free condoms and “morning after” pills for all are not. He is just pandering to left-wing activists with that one … buying the votes of irresponisble voters. The government has no business forcing citizens to buy anything, much less fine them if they do not.

When I got out of the Army, in the early 80s, I could buy an individual Prudential health insurance policy that covered what I needed for about $165 / 6 months. That was affordable. Then the government got involved and screwed it up. Now I have a choice of CIGNA or Blue Cross, and because they have a monopoly … they can charge whatever they want. Free-market capitalism did not do that ….

Seems to me that if someone can’t pay their bill, the hospital shouldn’t have to treat him. What do you think?