It's disturbing to me that whenever government healthcare is mentioned, the speaker usually refers to the Medicare system. This seems to me to be a misnomer. Medicare is an insurance system - not healthcare. The VA, on the other hand, is a highly functional system of providing health care. While any system is only as good as the individuals who make it function, the care provided by the VA healthcare system is based upon established standards of care and best practices. As a result, patients receive quality and timely care. As a veteran who has experienced employer-sponsored healthplans as well as self-pay options, I am grateful to have access to "government healthcare" - it's the most coordinated and proactive care I've ever received!
What is needed seems to me to be a reform of the way we receive care. If what care I can receive is dependent upon how much profit some other entity obtains, then my life is being treated as a commodity - or property - the quality of which depends upon whether someone else can make money as a result. Is this not a perverse form of human trafficking? To profit from the life, health (or lack thereof)of another? It is very different to make a profit on a service, or a product. But when profit is intimately linked to another's physical/mental being, then I think our morality is what needs reform.
This gentleman was able to strip away the layers of sometime confusing language
that makes understanding the debate difficult for the average person. I will search out the transcripts of the testimony to the committee.
His message needs to be delivered in a wide and loud method.
Thank you Mr. Moyers -We (your viewers) need to see Wise County in more detail,
next to hunger in children in this country lack of the most basic health care is criminal.
I am truly impressed by this interview and how spot on this segment was. I am a liver transplant patient and I received my transplant through Medicare. I would hate to think what would have happened to me if I had been with Blue Cross when I needed the transplant. I had my insurance through my union IATSE Local 477 Miami, FL. I support Government Health Care. Steven R. Goins
One of the best sites on this subject is Kim Andrew Elliott discussing International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy:
http://www.kimandrewelliott.com
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