Health Care, another way to look at it.

Another way to look at the Health Care ....

I believe that health care should be between a Dr. and a patient, when determining what action should be taken on any form of care. The gov. is not educated in this study and has never attended the years of schooling it takes to become a doctor. So using only that fact, they (Gov.) should not be allowed by law to practice medicine.

Below are the two oaths, one taken by the medical profession and one by our Senate/Congress (bureaucrats that will be assigned to the job) .... which one do you want looking out for you medically? For those that believe that our Gov. is the best qualified should take a look at these two oaths and determine who is best qualified in teachings and their oath to the people. The two are very different and each one has a job and responsibility to those it serves. I choose the medical profession to determine the care I need medically. Those that took an oath to defend the constitution can not even do that job right. So to think that they can fulfill the "The Hippocratic Oath" is just outrageous.


The Hippocratic Oath,

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."

Reference "NOVA"
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Gov. Oath,

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

Reference "Documentation for Federal Requirements

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