It is easy to talk about Nationalized Health Care for the United States. It is easy to blame the Health Care Crisis on the Health Care Professionals, Insurance Companies, or any other scapegoats. The problem with Nationalized Health Care is where will the money come from. The money would have to come in the form of taxes that eventually people will be unable to pay. 

Kuwait has Nationalized Health Care only because it has a lot of money in its coffers. Great Britain and the National Health Service has problems that hospitals have had to close, patients who can go are going to private clinics. Canada is also doing the same thing. 

Health Care Costs in America have been increasing due to many factors: 

1. The expectations of the people who want instant gratification of a cure. People have a tendency to see soap operas and other drama shows and hope that this translates into real life. Many want to use the latest state of the art health technology without knowledge of the cost. Get real because it will not happen. 

2. Abuses of Programs such as Tenncare [Tennessee’s Health Care Program] with unscrupulous people who are patients, health care professionals, and insurance companies milking Tenncare like if it was a cow. Tenncare is now broke. 

3. The amount of bureaucracy and laws that interfere with the relationship between patient and Health Care Professional. 

4. Unscrupulous Health Care Professionals and Insurance Companies using the highest codes to receive the maximum payments. This may work in the beginning but will fail in the end. Not everything is lost since Kentucky has KY Health Care in which a Medicare or Medicaid Patient has to be responsible for his or her own health with the Government Program used as a last resort. 

Lesson to be learned. The State and Health Care should be separated. When the two mix, there is a recipe for disaster.