Universal Health Care Will Damage Everyone in Massachusetts (and the Nation)
Poor, Rich, Patients and Doctors Will All Lose
            We’re hearing from politicians in this election year how they will save us all from every physical or mental problem we will ever have with their plans for Universal Health Care.
            Mitt Romney has become a viable candidate for President because of his alleged concern for all Massachusetts residents. Even Pres. Bush is going along with a national plan because some of his advisors say that the Democrats will crucify him if he doesn’t.
            But everyone knows that medical doctors have not solved all the puzzles about life. Actually, they have solved very few. We don’t want to lose our ability to consult many doctors if we have a serious problem. We don’t want to be assigned to one doctor, as is the inevitable end for every plan of socialized medicine.

            Richard Bernstein, M.D. Would Be Dead
            Richard Bernstein, M.D., was severely damaged and almost killed by the medical establishment before he went to medical school at age 45 and began to fight back.
            Even though his teaching and his books are now recommended by the doctor  in charge at the federal government’s Center for Disease Control in Atlanta (Frank Vinicor, M.D.), most doctors still tell diabetics to eat large amounts of carbohydrates which are poisonous to them. This practice would have killed Dr. Bernstein a long time ago if he had continued it.
            When he was diagnosed with diabetes in 1946 at age 12, all of the doctors (all of them) said he must eat large amounts of high carbohydrate foods  and avoid all fat.
            Back then no one was allowed to know his own blood sugar scores unless he first obtained a doctor’s permission to do so. All medical labs were required by law to deny everyone this information about their own body.
            The breakthrough came in 1969 when Bernstein saw an ad directed at hospitals for a small, new machine which would measure the amount of sugar in a drop of blood. As an engineer, he quickly realized this would allow him to begin testing his own blood for an entire day as many times as necessary in order to lower his blood sugars without the need for a doctor. So he quickly ordered the new $650 machine.
            But the company refused to sell to him, only to hospitals and doctors. It was 11- years later (1980) before they were allowed to sell to people to whom it mattered the most, those who were suffering from diabetes. Nevertheless, Bernstein got a machine right away --- because his wife was a medical doctor.
            He quickly discovered that while on the diet mandated for all diabetics, his blood sugars (which should be at 85-mg) vacillated twice a day from a terribly low 40-mg to a terribly high 400-mg. However, as a result of his new independence from the medical establishment, he was able within a year to normalize his blood sugars to the 85-mg. range around the clock.
            This allowed him to remove himself from the acute stage where he was in danger of dying. But he will never be able to correct the severe damage to his limbs and other parts of the body imposed upon him by the unanimous recommendations of the medical establishment.

There Is a Way to Help the Poor Without Universal Health Care
            If we decide to help those few who clog up our hospitals and demand care to cure their latest addiction to drugs, alcohol, or whatever, we must not overload our doctors, nurses and others so that we destroy our health system, which is still the best in the world despite its human faults.
            Since there are very few people who do not have adequate health care, we should help only them and not begin a coercive system which helps only the politicians, who will get more and more power (which is really what they want).
            The number who do not have adequate care in the U.S. is acknowledged by all to be somewhere around 10%-15%.