I have not yet decided which medical specialty to pursue, but I am almost certain that whatever specialty it is, I will be actively involved in drug development.  Pharmacology is by far my favorite basic science discipline, and I often lay awake at night thinking about new ways to treat various illnesses.  There is something incredibly glorious about devising a molecule that can alter the body's physiology and cheat death.  Moreover, it is obvious to me that one day, hopefully in the distant future, I will likely benefit from a drug that has yet to be invented.

I choose the word invented for a very important reason.  One does not simply discover a drug and then begin using it.  Take, for example, Penicillin.  Yes, one can ingest mold and get some sort of an effect, but it is not an optimum effect and as such would be frequently unusable.  Scientists took the mold, discovered the part of the mold that had active effects, and figured out a way to deliver it to the body effectively.   Penicillin the compound was discovered, but Penicillin the drug was invented by human genius.

There are tremendous costs associated with inventing a new drug.  Hundreds of millions of dollars must be spent, and there is no guarantee of success.  Men do not commit such vast resources to altruistic endeavors.  If a scientist wishes to procure funding for drug development he must speak to businessmen of their profit.  This will never change.  The resources necessary to develop drugs come from selfish businessmen whose only concern is their own profit.  If we are to see more and better drugs become available in the future, these greedy businessmen must be successful.  They are the heart of science, and they must make large profits in order to keep capital pumping into research. 

Obamacare in its current form poses little threat to those profits.  Like any disease, however, Obamacare is likely to have sequelae, and these sequelae will take the form of attacks on those who profit from medicine, i.e. the very men who make innovation possible.  Obamacare is a malignant law born of a malignant ideology and there will be metastases.  The most common cause of death in cancer patients is heart failure.  Make no mistake:  this malignant ideology will eventually steal so much from the heart of innovation that it screeches to a halt.

If you are my age, this will have dire consequences for you in your old age.  To be blunt, you and I both will likely die much sooner than we otherwise would, thanks to the ideology behind socialized medicine.   If President Obama were honest he'd ditch his slogan of "Hope and Change" and in 2012 campaign for re-election promising the young people of America an early death.  That is the only possible real world manifestation of his disgusting and evil philosophy.

Former Labor Secretary and Obama adviser Robert Reich speaking at UC Berkeley on Sept. 26, 2007.  

By now most people understand that the Democrats are so committed to turning America into Cuba 2.0 that they don't care who they hurt in the process.  If you had any doubt, this should erase it.  Yesterday, Democrats voted down an amendment to the health care bill that would ban government money being used to buy Viagra for sex offenders.  Why?  They didn't want to go through the trouble of having their precious legislation go back to the House for another vote!  They don't care that this bill will mean free viagra for child rapists...they only care that it will drag America down and bring them closer to their goal of a Socialist Utopia.

Shame on the Democrats!

Dr. Paul gave an excellent interview on Health Care to Fox Business Network:

It has been clear to me for years that the real motive behind universal health care is control.  I've been called crazy, paranoid and lots of other names because of it.  Now, one of the Democrats let it slip.  Enjoy!