Health Care Propaganda Campaign Well Underway in the State Media

Confidence men know a good con requires an element of truth to make the bigger lie believable.

The government campaign for rationing health care is well underway. The AP is delivering a series of articles to your local newspaper (and expect a barrage of similar propaganda in other forms of the state media).

The first major release in the series said women should wait a decade longer to begin having mammograms.
The second said that elderly men should usually receive little or no treatment for prostate cancer.
And the third in the series, out today, blames medical radiation for increasing our rates of cancer.

The Con Preparing for the Big Lie

The con goes like this. Americans are receiving too much medical treatment and it is making them sick or sicker than there were. Therefore, you need less medical care.

Here is the element of truth. Some people have illnesses very hard to diagnose and a battery of tests is needed to determine the proper diagnosis and treatment. Thus, it may appear they are getting unnecessary tests. And, no doubt, some patients are hypochondriacs.

Since tort lawyers in America lined up as an appendage of the Democrat party, all doctors are practicing some sort of defensive medicine to avoid devastating lawsuits and to reduce their insurance premiums. No doubt, some physicians may order too many tests out of a fear of missing something and failing their patients or out of fear of the lawyers lurking and advertizing everywhere.

All ionizing radiation can be harmful if we receive too much of it. But good doctors and their patients balance the risks of using medical radiation diagnostic tools against letting symptoms of serious illness go undiagnosed. In other cases, for example, for some broken bones, there is simply no other non-invasive way to direct the treatment.

Here is the propaganda buildup to the "Big Lie" needed to ration Americans' health care. It starts as a media campaign to condition the public to the belief that their doctors are their enemies, that they are greedy and order too many tests and procedures just to make money, and that more government intervention is better than decisions made by people and their doctors.

The Big Lie

Medical doctors are evil, greedy, and are not taking good care of you. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to decide which patient needs what treatment and which patient cannot have the treatments their doctors recommend. Government, as part of our nationalized health care, is preparing to insert politicians and bureaucrats between you and your doctor because that is what is best for you.

The Truth

Big government does very few things well. Big government run by radical leftists cannot do anything well. Examples? Consider Amtrak to mortgages to reforms of any kind.

Nothing can replace free enterprise and the freedom it brings. Nothing can replace the well tested doctor-patient relationship that, prior to government interference and takeover, brought Americans the miracles of modern medicine and the best health care possible.