Who is better educated about our healthcare system, Dr. Ron Paul or Senator Hillary Clinton?

Question

What Ron Paul says about Health Care:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/articles/?tag=Health%20Care

In another place and time:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140576/posts

The cost of the Universal & National Socialist healthcare plans:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/crovelli7.html

http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id9.html

FEMA, Rex 84, etc. The future...

Answer 1

Dr. Paul’s views on Health Care

The federal government decided long ago that it knew how to manage your health care better than you and replaced personal responsibility and accountability with a system that puts corporate interests first. Our free market health care system that was once the envy of the world became a federally-managed disaster.

Few people realize that Congress forced Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) on us. HMOs rose to prominence through federal legislation, incentives, and coercion.

Now, the Food and Drug Administration's bias toward large pharmaceutical companies enlarges their power, limits treatment options, and drives consumers to seek Canadian medicines. Regulations from D.C. make it virtually impossible for small business owners to cover their employees. The unemployed often cannot afford insurance, meaning those who need basic medical attention overcrowd emergency rooms and drive up premiums.

The federal government will not suddenly become efficient managers if universal health care is instituted. Government health care only means long waiting periods, lack of choice, poor quality, and frustration. Many Canadians, fed up with socialized medicine, come to the U.S. in order to obtain care. Socialized medicine will not magically work here.

Health care should not be left up to HMOs, big drug companies, and government bureaucrats.

It is time to take back our health care. This is why I support:

Making all medical expenses tax deductible.
Eliminating federal regulations that discourage small businesses from providing coverage.
Giving doctors the freedom to collectively negotiate with insurance companies and drive down the cost of medical care.
Making every American eligible for a Health Savings Account (HSA), and removing the requirement that individuals must obtain a high-deductible insurance policy before opening an HSA.
Reform licensure requirements so that pharmacists and nurses can perform some basic functions to increase access to care and lower costs.

By removing federal regulations, encouraging competition, and presenting real choices, we can make our health care system the envy of the world once again.

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

Answer 2

Hillary Clinton has been living and breathing health care issues, health care reform, health care for children, health care for the elderly, health care for our returning soldiers, and on and on and on....for decades. It's been her main area of study and research as this is the problem she is determined to do something about. Since her rejected plan during Bill's Administration she has worked on it tirelessly. Learning from her mistakes and becoming probably one of the most informed Americans, not just Presidential candidates, that there is about our health care system has been her goal and she met it long ago. She showed that expertise in drafting a health care plan that far outshines the others being offered. Being a doctor doesn't qualify one as an expert on all the problems in the health care industry.

Of all the things that you could compare Clinton and Paul on, this one has to be the worst choice if you are looking to hear that Paul is better educated about it. The very idea is ludicrous.

Answer 3

That's rather akin to asking if an ASE certified car mechanic knows a lot about running a car dealership. Dr. Paul's medical degree does not qualify him any better in terms of the healthcare system than it does anyone else. Perhaps a business degree, or at least experience in the public health sector might.

Sorry, but Senator Clinton gets my vote on that one.

Answer 4

Ron Paul

Answer 5

I hate to answer a question with a question, but what does Ron Paul say about the solution to the health care issue? I don't believe I have heard him comment about it. It won't go away by ignoring it.

EDIT: Thanks for the link. I have always thought it was better to have hearings to determine the reasons for the rise in health care. I am not in favor of a national health care system. His ideas sound somewhat bureaucratic as well. Let's just find out what's going on and fix it.

Answer 6

Hillary Clinton.

Despite being a physician, (or perhaps because of it), Ron Paul has YET to learn the difference between ownership and control of a medical practice and PAYMENT METHODS of insurance.

Medicine. Insurance. They're not the same thing, but Ron Paul clearly thinks they are.

As an OB/GYN for as long as he was, he never had ANY patient over the age of 65 who used Medicare as her payment method? Did he think the government was seizing his practice when he accepted that payment?

Answer 7

Being a physician teaches one very little about the vargaries of the US healthcare system. The US healthcare system is heavily bureaucratized and a government bureaucrat (i.e. Hillary Clinton) is in a much better position to understand it.

Ron Paul is qualified to practice clinical medicine, specifically obstetrics/gynecology. He is not qualified to do anything else. Doctors usually fare particularly poorly when they try to branch into others' areas of expertise...

Answer 8

Hillary Clinton, The Ron Paul errrr...."supporters" should get a clue that simply being a medical doctor doesn't mean someone is educated about a "healthcare system".

Try deleting THAT answer, you wonderful genius so much more intelligent than me bedsheet waving Ron Paul apostles.

Answer 9

Dr. Ron Paul since he was a physician for most of his life.

Answer 10

it disgusts me to see how many people have been brainwashed into believing that universal healthcare will work. Hilary has been involved with coming up with a solution for healthcare ever since she was in the white house, and what has she done about it??? absolutely nothing...

Universal healthcare will cripple the USA, literally. Our physicians should be able to practice medicine the way they were taught----without the govt breathing down their necks telling them how to practice. Wake up America!!!! Elect Hilary, and you will die before your supposed to.!!!