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Universal Health Care has been cited by many political opportunists. Candidates like Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama try to capitalize on the fears of the public about not being able to afford health insurance. Stories of people who lose everything because of unbearable health care costs or families without any health insurance permeate the scare tactics used by politicians to garner support for the idea of universal health care. Additionally, these politicians will cite the Institute of Medicine as stating that the United States is the “only wealthy nation without universal health care”.

They purposely exclude important information like the World Health Report that shows that America pays 15% of our GDP on health care, more than any other country in the world. It’s politics as usual for Obama and Clinton: short-sighted and abundant wasteful federal government spending. What they don’t look at is that the system is failed, not because of a lack of universal health care. The system is failed because of the monopoly stranglehold that the American Medical Association has on the health care industry.

Universal health care is not going to solve anything. All it will bring about is greater costs for health care. It does not address the true issues of the failed system. It is spending more money on a broken system rather than fixing the system itself. Of course, the politicians talk about the failed system as though throwing money at a failed system always fixes it, or adding federal government bureaucracy will solve the problems.

The system is failed because of organizations like the American Medical Association that dictate who becomes a doctor and lobby extensively (with incredibly deep pockets) to protect their own interests as an organization. They do so under the cover of protecting the integrity of American medicine. You don’t want just anyone to become a doctor, right? Meanwhile, our doctors are growing more incompetent and arrogant with each batch of doctors from the American Medical Association each year. Universal health care merely facilitates the existing flawed system. Health care is not going to improve, and it will just become more expensive. So, the 15% of our GDP, which is already the highest in the world, will only increase with universal health care.

Universal health care is much like painting a wall without patching up the holes first. From a distance, you are going to have a good looking wall, but the reality is that you still have holes and your home is no more valuable than before. Universal health care doesn’t fill any of the holes. In fact, it will just make them bigger.

Competition has proven to be highly effective at keeping costs low and innovation high. By increasing the amount of competition in the medical industry through government tax breaks and grants, the federal government would provide a much greater solution to the health care problems we have in the United States.