At the heart of the matter lie the basic inequities that exist within our current system. Read the history books about the robber barons and see if there is not some similarity to the CEOs for example. The disequilibrium is the problem. I urge you to think carefully and not simply give a knee jerk reaction. If you are one of the lucky ones who can afford health care, that is awesome. However, do you believe that makes it ok, or even good, to ignore the fact that others cannot? Do you honestly believe that health care is a commodity that should depend upon the value that society has placed upon you? Open your heart and stop worrying about opening your wallet. If you fear that helping others will give you less than either you don't have much, in which case, one would think you would sympathize, or you have not considered the humanistic side carefully. Be thankful you have what you have and imagine those working hard to get even the mininimum necessary to survive. And don't kid yourself, they are working hard. For every person who is not working hard to live on the low end of the scale, we can find a person on the high end who 'works' by playing golf and taking people out to dinner. Of course, there will always be some hierarchy, but we have allowed it to go on too long.
I like others here on your blog, would like to thank you. For years, I have been denouncing the insurance companies as profit making entities unconcerned with humans. I honestly think that taking them out of the equation of health care is the way to go. This country has become more and more divided into the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. The 'have' are more likely to be content because the current system works for them. But the human cost is too high and something needs to be done. You are using the background and information you have to create positive change. I respectfully thank you.
Veterans, who are participants in a healthcare system, other than the one under which they retired (now it's Humana Healthcare... Tricare... etc) are required to make their claims under their companies' healthcare program. My company uses CIGNA, so, that' what I make as my primary healthcare system, under the rules. So, when I go to the doctor, etc, I show them my Cigna card and my retired military ID number and my Humana documentation... the problems start. Cigna, of course pays their party, but then, when attempting to make the claim via Humana... the ball gets dropped. I never had this problem when I was with just Humana, without the rules that my employer's system had to be used. It seems to me that, since the "nationalized" healthcare program of funding via Tricare/VA was better, that I should be allowed to use that vice the company provided inferior CIGNA healthcare program.... and yes, I thought my healthcare would be all paid for upon putting in 20 years and retiring from the military, but, alas, my recruiters never knew that the United States citizens would make me pay for my healthcare via an annual "minimal" fee, payable to Humana Healthcare (Tricare Prime).
So, yes, nationalized healthcare seems to be "better" but, one's own citizens can't be depended upon to keep their word, so, I can understand the misgivings about a national healthcare system, run by the citizens of the United States of America.
Though the house has approved a $14 billion government rescue of the American automobile industry, but the bailout plan, which provide emergency loans to General Motors and Chrysler, was of no use as there is bond to strong opposition in the senate from the Republican.
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Medicare does, in fact, work and has worked since 1965. It has done a great job of keeping health care costs under control to the tune of about twelve percent under its private industry counterparts. Funding went south when the Bush Administration added Part D with no corresponding method to fund the new drug benefit. They looked good, all the while sticking a huge monkey wrench into the program. One might even speculate it was intentional, if one is to believe that politicos can think that far ahead, which I do not.
The true dinosaur is employment based group health plans. This practice grew out of the post WW2 economy as a retention tool. Government tax policy encouraged the free ride for good little workers in major industries. Now that we will all be working 39 hours at WalMart, if we're lucky, we should stop believing in the health care fairy and face a stiff dose of reality. We all know it bites.
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