The Right Cure: Why Free Market Choice, Not Fascism or Federal Control, Is the Answer for Healthcare
Fascism: Why we need it now in regards to the Healthcare Industry ...
Fascism - [Short Version] Means you own it and the Government tells you how to run it. Obamacare told the Medical Industry how to run it the way Clinton told the Banking industry how to do mortgages. As you see they both
F$%^ the Housing and Medical Systems. [2 other reasons I don't vote Democrat].
We need Fascism to tell the the Medical Insurance Industrial Complex to go SUCK! Give every the subsidy money to the people and let them have CHOICE!!!
The Right Cure: Why Free Market Choice, Not Fascism or Federal Control, Is the Answer for Healthcare
A provocative sentiment is bubbling up from a place of genuine and understandable frustration with the American healthcare system. It’s a feeling that the system is broken, that insurance companies are predatory, and that government intervention has only made things worse. This frustration has led to a startling conclusion for some: “We need Fascism to tell the Medical Insurance Industrial Complex to go SUCK! Give [everyone] the subsidy money to the people and let them have CHOICE!!!” While the anger is justified, the prescribed remedy is a dangerous misdiagnosis that fundamentally misunderstands both the problem and the proposed solution. The American healthcare system does not need a heavy-handed “fascist” model, where you own your practice but the state dictates its operation; it needs a decisive return to the conservative principles of genuine free-market competition, individual choice, and patient empowerment.
First, it is critical to dismantle the dangerous conflation of terms. The poster’s short definition of fascism—“you own it and the Government tells you how to run it”—is not a prescription for liberty, but a blueprint for corporatism, which is indeed a hallmark of fascist economies. This is not a conservative ideal; it is the antithesis of one. Conservatism is built upon the pillars of individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise. A system where the government dictates how private entities must operate, from the medical treatments they can offer to the prices they can charge, is not freedom. It is the very essence of top-down control that conservatives have always opposed. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which the post rightly criticizes, is a perfect example of this corporatist model. It did not create a free market; it created an alliance between big government and big insurance, forcing millions to purchase a product from a private company under terms heavily regulated by the state. This is not free-market capitalism; it is a managed, cronyist system that benefits the powerful at the expense of the individual.
The poster’s instinct to tell the “Medical Insurance Industrial Complex to go SUCK!” is one shared by millions of Americans who feel trapped by a system that seems designed to maximize profits while minimizing service. However, the solution is not to replace one form of control with another. The call to “Give everybody the subsidy money to the people and let them have CHOICE!!!” is, in fact, a profoundly conservative idea—it just isn’t fascism. This is the core of the free-market alternative to both the Obamacare model and a single-payer system. It’s about decentralizing power and putting the consumer in the driver’s seat.
The current system is broken precisely because it has insulated the consumer from the true cost of care. When your employer chooses your plan, and a distant insurance company negotiates with hospitals and pays the bills, you are a passive participant. There is no incentive to shop for value, no competition on price, and no transparency. This is what happens when third-party payers dominate the landscape. The conservative solution is to reintroduce the power of the consumer. This means expanding the use and flexibility of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which allow individuals to use pre-tax dollars to pay for routine medical expenses. When you are spending your own money from an HSA, you have a direct incentive to ask, “How much does an MRI cost?” and to shop around. This creates downward pressure on prices that no government price control can ever achieve.
Furthermore, true choice requires real competition. Conservatives advocate for policies that break down the artificial barriers that protect the existing insurance cartel. This includes allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines. Why should a consumer in New Jersey be limited to the expensive, heavily mandated plans offered in their state, when a more affordable, tailored plan is available in Pennsylvania? Allowing cross-state purchasing would unleash a wave of competition, forcing insurers to compete on price, quality, and customer service for the first time. Additionally, we must scale back the thousands of state-level “mandates” that force insurance plans to cover everything from acupuncture to hair prostheses, which drive up the cost of basic coverage and make it unaffordable for many.
The call for “subsidy money” to be given directly to the people is also a sound conservative principle, if implemented correctly. Instead of the government subsidizing insurance companies through massive payments for Obamacare plans, we should transition to a system of means-tested, refundable tax credits that individuals can use to purchase any health insurance plan that fits their needs. This would sever the link between government and the insurance industry, turning patients into powerful customers. An insurance company would then have to earn your business by providing a quality product at a competitive price, rather than earning it by lobbying the federal government for favorable regulations and subsidies.
This stands in stark contrast to the Democratic vision for healthcare, which consistently moves toward more government control, not less. The logical endpoint of their ideology is a single-payer, “Medicare for All” system. This is not “fascism” in the historical sense, but it is a form of democratic socialism that represents the ultimate in government control. It would mean the end of private health insurance, the nationalization of one-sixth of the American economy, and the establishment of the federal government as the sole payer for all medical services. The results would be catastrophic: rationing of care, staggering wait times, the stifling of medical innovation, and a catastrophic loss of patient-doctor autonomy. It is the polar opposite of choice.
The frustration that leads someone to use the word “fascism” is a symptom of a system that offers no good options. On one side, they see the cronyist corporatism of Obamacare, which empowers both government and large corporations. On the other, they see the creeping socialism of the progressive left, which would eliminate private choice altogether. What is missing from this dichotomy is the robust, principled alternative of free-market healthcare.
A conservative, patient-centered system would be built on four pillars: Choice, Competition, Transparency, and Responsibility. It would look like this:
Choice: You choose your own health plan from a wide, competitive national market. You own it, and it is portable, not tied to your employer.
Competition: Insurance companies and healthcare providers must compete for your business, leading to lower prices, better quality, and more innovation.
Transparency: Hospitals and doctors must publicly post their prices, allowing you to shop for value and making the market function like any other.
Responsibility: With the tools of HSAs and catastrophic coverage, you are empowered and responsible for your routine healthcare spending, making you a active participant in controlling costs.
We do not need fascism. We do not need socialism. What we need is the courage to apply the timeless principles of American liberty and free enterprise to the healthcare system. The goal is not to have the government tell insurance companies what to do; the goal is to empower individual Americans to do it for themselves, by voting with their dollars and making the system work for them. The path forward is not through state control, but through individual sovereignty. It’s time to reject the false choices of corporatism and socialism and embrace the true cure: freedom.
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