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Originally posted by Guitar Shark
Define "We."
A large percentage of Americans have NO health insurance. Those that do have seen their premiums skyrocket and the benefits reduce over the years. The people without insurance are clogging our emergency rooms which raises costs for everyone else.
Unless your head is completely buried in the sand, you should be able to recognize that the health care crisis is a HUGE issue.
Define "We."
A large percentage of Americans have NO health insurance. Those that do have seen their premiums skyrocket and the benefits reduce over the years. The people without insurance are clogging our emergency rooms which raises costs for everyone else.
Unless your head is completely buried in the sand, you should be able to recognize that the health care crisis is a HUGE issue.
But the problem isn't a new one confined to the current Administration.
believe me when i tell you that.
The problem with the system is the lack of protection for those who practice medicine and those who develope and manufacture the drugs we need.
If you think healthcare sucks now, just wait until everyone without it ends up on the public nipple, the changes will be devastating because then the government will then decide for you what treatments you get and when or if you get them at all.
You do not want to add a beurocrat to the discussions between you and your doctor when they have final say over your treatment.
Medicaid has already been restructured so that it is only for the disabled, it no longer carries Healthy Start for children, Care Source does and that is actually a massive improvement over how it was, you can thank the Bush Administration for that one because the plan works and you have better choices over the physicians in the plan.
Medicaire has also been restructured and they now pay for my wife's prescriptions 100% whereas before I got 20% of that bill but our malpractice settlement pays for that shit anyway so for the immediate future it wasn't actually coming out of our pocket.
This restructuring took so much of the financial burdon off our insurance provider that our premiums actually went down.
In fact i got a check from my insurance company for over payment of Premiums for the last 6 months of last year, it was a pretty good surprise given my current situation.
You can thank Bush for that as well, the Seniors will be by years end.
But that brings me to the core of the whole problem, and that is lawsuits. like i said, physicians and those who develop and manufacture the drugs we need, until Bush started moving shit around, had less protection against phony lawsuits that (and excuse my reference here) LAWYERS benefitted from more than the Plaintiff.
Damages were so over inflated for so long and so little protection was provided federally for the drug companies and Doctors that their losses are what have transferred into premium hikes.
I sued a couple of doctors but i only went after what i was entitled to, a fair settlement, an i got it. the kicker was that my own attorney made the statement, "But you can get so much more" so many times that i started to get offended, and he was only thinking about his bottom line anyway, to the tune of 40%.
But so many Billions are awarded by judgement every year to individuals who are only driven by greed and over-inflated damages that the rest of society ends up paying for it.
Heath care is an issue that has to be addressed on a state level, not the Federal level.
Hell, here in Ohio, up until the mid 90', we had the best of the best this country had to offer at The University of Cincinnati Hospital. All the best doctors came through here on their way to their own practices. But so damn many of them got their ass sued off for frivelous reasons that they no longer come here, they go somewhere else where state law provides more protection for them or they go somewhere outside of the country all together.
Doctors should be accountable for the things they do, but leaving them and those in the pharmaceutical field to the dogs if they make a mistake is wrong, because a mistake isn't malpractice, it's a mistake, but still they get taken to the cleaners because so and so had a great lawyer.
Greed is the problem, and since states won't go far enough to protect their health care professionals we look to the Feds to fix the problem as a last ditch effort to control Health Care costs.
But some of those in Congress and the Senate, Democrats at that, see a different opportunity here. they see a "Social Program" that will NOT provide better care for all of us, but it will provide them with control over how those health care funds are spent...and folks, it won't be spent on YOU or ME getting better care. if you believe that lie you are treading on water i've already been through, and the water ain't fine.
Here's what your Universal Health care system will do for YOU.
You go to the Doctor for one reason or the other.
The Doctor finds the problem, and precribes the treatment for you but instead of how it is now where you leave with a prescription and get it filled, you have to file a claim to see if that prescription is covered, and if you need extensive or continued care for a major illness, you have to ask permission by a State Doctor...now tell me, what will his main priority be?
it will be cost to the state, and then he'll/she'll reject your request for the treatment making you have to file an appeal, and guess what, people die during these appeals when these same doctors you want controlling health care take months to settle the issue.
And in the end, they end up paying nothing while the family that went broke dealing with the issue see none of that money for reimbursement.
I want protection for those who provide the care and the drugs, but i do not want a governmental Doctor who's main goal is to save money sitting in the room with my doctor and myself as we discuss treatments when the only thing they'll say is NO.
You people that support Universal Health Care have no fucking idea what you are asking for at all.
It isn't anything like what Canada has because the structure is totally different than what the Democrats are trying to do here at home.
It's hard t tell if water is too hot or too cold because steam comes off of it at both extreme's....it's better to test it before you jump in.
If you have ever dealt with SSI then you've had a taste of what Universal health care will be ALL about...thanks, but No Thanks!
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