1. Governments should be less involved when it comes to public health. Government intervention in public health-except to ensure healthcare for the disadvantaged-is largely a mistake. It compromises the quality of care and adds a huge burden of bureaucratic red tape to a healthcare system that is already struggling.
2. The U.S. government needs to take less of a role in public health. The interventions designed by the medical profession, such as chemotherapy and radiation-both proven cancer causers-for cancer victims no longer make sense to many Americans, who are increasingly interested in holistic health care, organic foods, and natural remedies, yet the U.S. government and its legal system have taken a stance forcing citizens to accept medical care even when they do not want it. Even many doctors and nurses "vary in their willingness to undertake cancer chemotherapy" (Bremnes, Andersen, & Wist, 1995). The U.S. government threatens to interfere with better healthcare by forcing Americans to accept inferior interventions, such as required mercury-laden vaccinations that are sometimes dangerous, as in the case of HPV vaccine comas and deaths ("Death toll linked to Gardasil vaccine rises," 2008).
3. The federal government should not pass the buck to the states; neither level of government should be involved in telling Americans what type of healthcare they should have. Government's only involvement should be to ensure healthcare for those that want it and to establish and enforce standards of care in terms of ethics and competence, not to force healthcare on those that do not.
4. Past historical events have affected current healthcare policies in that such policies tend to be reactive. For example, the current press by the FDA to irradiate food is an overreaction to the salmonella "epidemic."
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