Ron Paul: Restoring Sanity to Health Care

If you have been following the presidential race, you have probably noticed that Health Care is turning out to be one of the pivotal issues in this contest. Folks who are consumers of conventional medicine are concerned about such issues as the cost and availability of health care, and for good reason. Anytime the government gets involved with a service, you can be sure that there will be waste and poor management galore. Health Care in America is a profit-driven enterprise, with the medical establishment, Big Pharma, and regulatory agencies such as the FDA playing a cozy game of scratch my back and I will scratch yours. As the old saying goes: Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Those of us who take a more natural, alternative stand on this issue need to be additionally alarmed about the propensity the government has to feed the golden goose of mainstream medicine and the pharmaceutical industry by seeking to eliminate options such as naturopathy, herbal and nutritional supplements, and other safe and effective methods of pursuing wellness. The American people are being railroaded by the multi-billion dollar health care industry, and the loss of freedoms in this arena is increasing at a frighteningly rapid pace.

Ron Paul has come out clearly in favor of health care reforms, and a return to a time when we were freely able to care for our medical needs, and for those of our children, as we best saw fit. Dr. Paul believes in our right to choose, and not to have dangerous policies such as forced immunizations and mandatory chemotherapy forced upon us. The US government is risking the health of its citizens by pandering to the profits of Big Medicine, and Ron is the one candidate with a clear vision that can turn back the tide in the direction of health care policies that are sane, and constitutional to boot.

Below are a couple of links that I think you will find very helpful. The first is an excellent resource for assessing the health care views of all the major presidential candidates. This interactive site allows you to do a side-by-side comparison between two or more candidates of your choice. Secondly, I have included a page on the Ron Paul website that clarifies his stance on health care in his own words. I trust this information will help you to carefully evaluate the various views on this vital issue.

http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/health-care/