At what point did Health care become a "right"? Someone said this afternoon at work that people have a right to good health care. True, but no one should expect it for free. I mean, health care is a service, not a right granted to us by the founding fathers.
Also, whats the rush with getting this health care under the control of the government? Something so monumental should get a seriously long, real long, look. I don't see health care under the governments control as a good thing, looking at their track record of allocating funds through history and running things, its not that stellar.
I am going to admit I am not very up on political issues. I am this way by design because this kind of thing depressees the heck out of me. There are, however, two things that baffle me about our current political issues.
ReplyDeleteThe first is how people can possibly think the Government controlling the medical field is a good thing. It is quite simple. It is supply and demand. If you increase the number of people that can get medical care at a decreased rate then you need to increase the number of medical personel. However, when you decrease the cost you are going to decrease the pay the Drs and nurses get and therefore you are not going to have people willing to pay for medical school and go through the many hours of sweat and tears to become medical providers. So we are all going to be waiting months to get into a limited number of facilities to see over worked doctors. I can't see the good in this.
Secondly, It has amazed me how quickly this president has been able to walk in and make changes. Maybe once again it is my political ignorance but I thought Bills had to go through a process to get passed. (Like on school house rock.) However, Obama has made more changes in 6 months than most presidents pull of in a full term. I don't know about you but this frightens me. Granted I am not a big fan of change although I know it is necessary.
In closing I would like to say that I think if the Government wants to make healthcare available to more people they need to look at better regulating health insurance. We have working people and small business owners that cannot afford insurance and the ones that do have to accept such high copays and deductibles that it is pointless to have it. In 20 years ins copays have increased from $10 to as much as $40 for an office visit. What some people may not realize is your PPO or HMO insurance only allows your Dr to charge $39 a visit. So if your copay is $25, you are paying monthly premiums to save $14 on an office visit. Most of us only go to a doctor 3-4 times a year. So we are paying premiums monthly to insure that in the small chance that we become sick enough that the insurance company agrees we should be hospitalized, we will have a plan that will pay the largest part of the bill. And don't be miss lead. If you are in a car accident, your health insurance refuses to pay and the auto insurance is responsible. I agree there has been some instances in which medical providers may take advantage and order unecessary test and such but I still believe the biggest racket in Medicine is the insurance companies.
Sorry, Steve, but I am very opinionated on this issue.
Melissa
Very good points, and lets hope that we never get to find out if the Governement was capable of messing up the Health Care System as we know it.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, it is a service and if the regulation is removed and left to the free market system, I think we would see a much better outcome.