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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Health crisis
I'm returning to one of my favorite soap boxes - reforming health care. Obama says it's NO. 1 priority (after stimulus, I guess)
7 comments:
Anonymous
said...
hmmm...changing the age for social security benefits again. Fine if you're a healthy person. By the time my granddaughter retires, the new age will be 100!
Health care does need some serious reforming. Parents should have an option of affordable health insurance too. The kids are covered, GREAT, but a parent gets sick, who's going to take care of them? How bout those insurance premiums and deductables. One giant rip off. No one can tell me the company is not making money. We pay for insurance, but haven't really been able to afford to go to the doctor because of the deductables. Don't let those specialist doctors fool you into thinking they have to charge so much because of malpractice insurance costs.(At least this was told to me by a doctor some years ago) They have money, rightly so because they have earned it, but they and the medical fields way over charge.
Any attempts to extend health care seem to draw that socialism label.
Any suggestions to address the problem or shall we play antiquated politics with such an important issue for children, seniors and the poor?
Health care has simply become a dysfunctional and unreliable profit center for conglomerates in a mushroom cloud around pharmacueticals.
It is yet another area in the US where corporate return to shareholders trumps the bothersome expectation of folks to get medical care for the mundane and the catastrophic illnesses.
It seems that the promise to pay implied by the insurers when medical treatment is misleading. Folks assumed that meant they would pay medical bills for treatment leading to recovery of health. What they meant is we promise to pay the market standard of greater than 10% ROI to wealthy folks who invest their money.
Actual medical care is, at best, an afterthought. And yes, this does, for the most part, play out well above the heads of our local healthcare providers. It isn't working ofr our local docs either.
So we use the "ugly stick" and label reform as socialism. Current state is elitist and tyrannical capitalist.
As long as that reform doesn't give us bigger and more of the same. Let doctors be doctors and the massive lobbying done by the pharmacuetical INDUSTRY needs to end! [ditto for the insurance industry]
Why do you seem so dead set about healthcare being in arms reach for everyone? Does one class of citizens have a right to be healthier then another class?
Anonymous said... As long as that reform doesn't give us bigger and more of the same. Let doctors be doctors and the massive lobbying done by the pharmacuetical INDUSTRY needs to end! [ditto for the insurance industry]
7 comments:
hmmm...changing the age for social security benefits again. Fine if you're a healthy person. By the time my granddaughter retires, the new age will be 100!
Health care does need some serious reforming. Parents should have an option of affordable health insurance too. The kids are covered, GREAT, but a parent gets sick, who's going to take care of them? How bout those insurance premiums and deductables. One giant rip off. No one can tell me the company is not making money. We pay for insurance, but haven't really been able to afford to go to the doctor because of the deductables. Don't let those specialist doctors fool you into thinking they have to charge so much because of malpractice insurance costs.(At least this was told to me by a doctor some years ago) They have money, rightly so because they have earned it, but they and the medical fields way over charge.
Yea, socialist healthcare. And you thought the wait was bad now.
Any attempts to extend health care seem to draw that socialism label.
Any suggestions to address the problem or shall we play antiquated politics with such an important issue for children, seniors and the poor?
Health care has simply become a dysfunctional and unreliable profit center for conglomerates in a mushroom cloud around pharmacueticals.
It is yet another area in the US where corporate return to shareholders trumps the bothersome expectation of folks to get medical care for the mundane and the catastrophic illnesses.
It seems that the promise to pay implied by the insurers when medical treatment is misleading. Folks assumed that meant they would pay medical bills for treatment leading to recovery of health. What they meant is we promise to pay the market standard of greater than 10% ROI to wealthy folks who invest their money.
Actual medical care is, at best, an afterthought. And yes, this does, for the most part, play out well above the heads of our local healthcare providers. It isn't working ofr our local docs either.
So we use the "ugly stick" and label reform as socialism. Current state is elitist and tyrannical capitalist.
It needs fixing and now!!
As long as that reform doesn't give us bigger and more of the same.
Let doctors be doctors and the massive lobbying done by the pharmacuetical INDUSTRY needs to end! [ditto for the insurance industry]
@February 24, 2009 4:06 PM
Why do you seem so dead set about healthcare being in arms reach for everyone? Does one class of citizens have a right to be healthier then another class?
Anonymous said...
As long as that reform doesn't give us bigger and more of the same.
Let doctors be doctors and the massive lobbying done by the pharmacuetical INDUSTRY needs to end! [ditto for the insurance industry]
I say, AMEN!!
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