¶ … stakeholders in " Chapter 4, Alignment with the rest of society " -- which stakeholder(s) do you think is the most important? Why do you think so? Please state your reasons in using one policy analysis example. The most important stakeholders are the patients because they are the ones who pay or should pay for the service. But what they want does not matter because like most things in America, the choice is out of their hands. Health care is run by a cartel, just like the banking sector is run by the Federal Reserve cartel. Health care providers are subject to all manner of controls even though they run a private business -- the way they choose to conduct their business is largely out of their hands. They provide the services that individuals want or need -- but at the same time the bureaucracy involved within the health care cartel and the government and the law makers and the special interest groups all push the provider into a corner and take away the free market so that there is no real competition in the market place.

Policy "wonks" want a "system that is efficient, coherent, and rational and that provides effective care to the relevant populace" (McLaughlin, McLaughlin, 2014, p. 96). That system could easily be had if government and insurance companies did not get involved. Why are health care prices so high in America? What does it cost a day's wage just for the simplest check-up for a child? Does the education cartel have anything to do with it? (Why for example must doctors spend so much money on education when they can easily learn all they need to know on the job, in training? The answer is because colleges have to make money ... ). The simple reason why the system does not work is because the system is designed to fleece everyone. So while health care providers must "compete" with money (not from customers but from the State -- which is broke almost everywhere in...

But such is the American Dream.
One policy that is "analyzed" is that of the "free rider ... who could otherwise pay but avoids doing so while still relying on the system for help" (p. 96). The authors suggest that a fix to this solution would be to require motorcycle riders to wear helmets and "post a bond to cover their bills" as well as be willing to donate their organs to eliminate the unnecessary risk their riding without helmets poses to the rest of the "payers." This solution is offensive to decency. First off, there are no "payers" or "free riders" anymore because health care and insurance are so outrageously expensive no one but the very rich could actually afford them if they had to pay. Second, this is socialism, which Americans should reject by virtue of their nationhood, but which they don't because since the cartels came into power they have convinced most so caught up in the rat race just trying to stay above board that there really is no other way -- that being gouged and fleeced is just the way it has to be.

Socialized health care is a disaster unless those in charge are virtuous and that virtue acts as an example to all others to act virtuously and to not try to gouge their fellow man or get "their slice of the pie." But we do not have virtuous leaders at the top: we have financiers and business men whose primary aim is to get rich. There is no virtue in their conduct or transcendental principle in their system. That is the problem. No amount of socialism or any other form of --ism can fix a system that is run by people who have no care or love for the people they serve. It is the people who are the…