This is an intelligent interview with Ron Paul on NPR’s program “All Things Considered.” Ron Paul addresses the potential problems with government intervention with health care, as well as what he calls ‘corporationism’, which is what he states is causing the current problems. As Ron Paul expresses in the interview:
Charity takes care of it, the churches take care of it. When government takes care of it, the bureaucrats get paid. And insurance companies become the lobbyists, the drug companies become the lobbyists, the management companies become the lobbyists, doctors get squeezed, the patients get squeezed. You can’t put all these corporations in between the doctors and the patients. You have a form of corporatism, which motivates the type of system that we have now, and it’s not any better. Some worry that Obama would give us socialized medicine, but he isn’t. He’s giving us a continuation of corporatism. He’s forcing people to buy insurance. The insurance companies love it! They love to see 20 or 30 million more people being forced into the system, and they will have more customers.
Listen to the full 8 minute interview online right here: