Universal healthcare

President Obama and the Democrats want universal health coverage for Americans. They claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. Interesting, because I thought it was the toxic assets held by banks, high unemployment, and loss of retirement funds on Wall Street. Medical costs did not contribute to any of those. Universal health coverage is simply another way to produce more revenue for the government through taxing the middle class and small business that can be used for any purpose by the government. In truth, if you really wanted to actually decrease medical costs, you would work on the insane costs and arbitrary rewards of our malpractice system, and the hidden cost of defensive medicine: tests and procedures that doctors order for no good reason other than to protect themselves from lawsuits. How much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye, not on medicine, but on the law? When a surgeon pays $200K a year for malpractice insurance before he opens his doors, it is the patients who pay through higher doctor fees to cover the insurance. Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings, yet there is no mention of it in any of the Democratic bills under review because they are hugely dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers. Seriously, this healthcare or health insurance reform nonsense is nothing more than a money grab by the administration and the most serious attempt at controlling its citizenry in memory.