“And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,” Mark 5:26

By Riley J. Hood—Milwaukee County Constitution Party
 Health care was a doctor or nurse serving a sick patient. The services were paid for directly. Prices for services varied, as some doctors catered to the wealthy who could pay more. Country doctors got sometimes were paid in pies and cows. Nursing was an unpaid volunteer profession. Some doctors were better than others. The medical profession got paid within the parameters of what the patient could reasonably pay.  
Churches would use some of their tithes to support a Christian hospital. For example, before the state funded Aurora group started taking over facilities, there was St. Luke’s on 27th and Oklahoma, (Lutheran) and Trinity at Lake Dr, and Ramsey in Cudahy, (Roman Catholic.) Two examples of many, Deaconess, St Joseph’s, Columbia-St. Mary’s etc.   
The first Health Maintenance Organizations were private concerns. According to Jones and Bartlett Learning, on jblearning.com, “Sometimes cited as the first example of a health maintenance organization, the Western Clinic in Tacoma, Washington, began in 1910 to offer, exclusively through its own providers, a broad range of medical services in return for a premium payment of $0.50 per member per month.” Some cite the Kaiser Foundation (Oakland CA) health plan.
Other people cite the Ross-Loos Medical Group. By 1951 over 35,000 people participated. It was Clifford Loos that introduced a health-care insurance plan for the workers at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. (It requires a historian to nail down the facts in chronological order, according to an accepted definition.)
Notice we are no longer discussing health care, but insurance. It is unrealistic, prone to fraud, and always leads to higher prices. The goofy game is, you get sent an outrageous bill, and hustle to get someone else to pay for it.  Insurance not a God-given Right, it is a bill you pay.
According to a google search, “In 1970, the number of HMOs declined to fewer than 40. Paul M. Ellwood Jr., often called the “father” of the HMO, began having discussions with what is today the US Department of Health and Human Services that led to the enactment of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973.” The HHS was more honestly called the Department of Health Education and Welfare. (HEW)
The federal government started funding HMOs, and asserting control over these groups. Now the discussion is about federally subsidized insurance. The Social Security Administration admits to price fixing, “Prepaid enrollment fees for the basic and supplemental health services must be fixed uniformly under a community rating system without regard for the medical history of any individual or family.”
The US Government Accountability Office, Gao.gov/products posts, “The Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Act of 1973 provided for a Federal program to develop alternatives to the traditional forms of health care delivery and financing by assisting and encouraging the establishment and expansion of HMOs. Through December 31, 1977, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), had awarded $131.3 million in grant and loan assistance under the act to 1972 organizations, and 2 additional organizations received loan guarantees for $2.2 million. As of the same date, there were 51 federally qualified HMOs.” The SSA, on Ssa.gov, “The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, signed by President Nixon on December 29, 1973,” said the measures were temporary, “The new measure “commits’ the Federal Government to a limited, trial-period support of the development of health maintenance organizations (HMO’s).”  
The Ehrlich Law Firm on www.ehrlichfirm.com dated December 3, 2014 posted “Doctors are ultimately human, and may succumb to the economic incentive that the HMO structure provides to withhold care. The kind of HMO horror stories that make the newspapers occur when the economic incentives that HMOs create to withhold care end up harming patients.” This is the result of the HMO concept, Sarah Palin’s comment about death panels is now the reality, as social workers, hospice workers, and insurance executives withhold care. Those people think of you in terms that are totally beyond your ability to influence, or even comply with.
The Milwaukee County Constitution Party agrees with James Madison, who wrote in Federalist Papers, number 45, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.” We affirm the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In this case we emphasize “the people.” Hospitals and doctors should be accountable to patients and not to politicians, bureaucrats, or HMO Administrators. Socialist medicine is comprehensibly un-Constitutional.  
While we affirm people’s right to association, insurance should be recognized for limited concept that it is. It doesn’t make people healthier, (or better drivers) it makes people irresponsible as they think someone is paying tab. To force people to pay insurance it nothing more than socialism. We would also affirm that to make medical care affordable, we must return to capitalism. The doctor patient contract, where it isn’t a perfect world, but it is a free world. Where thousands and millions of individual decisions are less expensive and more beneficial than some egg-head with federal power behind him calling all the shots, (and trying to make you take them) like Dr. Fauci.