Health Care Coverage?
I think this article accurately states the current situation with health care. A couple of comments from the article follow.
Before screaming that I'm taking this out of context please read the complete article.
I personally watched a debate between President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole. Bill was trying to make a case in favor of managed health care that takes control away from patients and doctors. When Clinton asked the audience about their managed health care plans he got such a poor response that Bob Dole started laughing out loud. This argument was for people who had insurance but it still showed how out of touch he was with how people felt when someone started trying to second guess patient and doctor decisions.
A fundamental aspect of the American psyche is being free and independent. We don't like someone taking away control when not absolutely necessary.
Just my two cents worth.
Later
Within the national debate over healthcare reform, an assumption has been revealed in several proposals: Healthcare decisions for poor Americans are best left to the U.S. Government.
I sustained a personal and professional loss when I was forced to stop providing services as the only Breast Cancer Surgery specialist in a 70-mile radius in central California who still accepted Medi-Cal. I could no longer afford the $10,000-$15,000 monthly hemorrhage related to reimbursement so low it would be cheaper to close my office doors.
But my own loss is nothing compared with what the women who will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer in my community will face. “Coverage” with a government-funded “insurance plan” for them offers no coverage after all.
Before screaming that I'm taking this out of context please read the complete article.
I personally watched a debate between President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole. Bill was trying to make a case in favor of managed health care that takes control away from patients and doctors. When Clinton asked the audience about their managed health care plans he got such a poor response that Bob Dole started laughing out loud. This argument was for people who had insurance but it still showed how out of touch he was with how people felt when someone started trying to second guess patient and doctor decisions.
A fundamental aspect of the American psyche is being free and independent. We don't like someone taking away control when not absolutely necessary.
Just my two cents worth.
Later
posted by Churt(Elfkind) at 08:38
3 Comments:
Unfortunately, socialized medicine is pretty much a fait accompli at this point. Socialism has been leaking into the American system (and psyche) for seventy years now. It started, in the form of FDR's policies, as a reaction to the excesses of the robber barons and jackal capitalists of the early 20th century.
Marx was right about one thing: the seeds of capitalism's destruction are sown within its very foundations. When people who are happy living on the dole are allowed to vote, they will always vote themselves more handouts. The genius of the Clintons lies in the fact that they realize that reality and understand how to exploit it to put themselves in power.
The problem with socialism, be it in medicine or more widespread, is that, like weeds in your flowerbed, once established it is virtually impossible to wipe out. Margaret Thatcher spent the best years of her life weaning the British off of the disastrous socialism of the mid-century, but not ten years after she left power it was re-established and stronger than ever.
When liberals are in power, socialism grows exponentially. When conservatives -- or at least the selfish patsies who pass themselves off as such nowadays -- are in power, it stagnates temporarily. But we really can't stop it -- short of a revolution. I've already been shot at and don't care to repeat the experience, so I'm hoping I make it to my old age death bed before this country is completely corrupted into something unrecognizable in reference to its original Constitution. Selfish of me, I know; but it's all I got. =O)
Congrats Jar(egg)head, with that last statement,(short of revolution) you just made it on to the FBI watch list. Enjoy the black van on your street :)
So that's why that van has been following me around for the last three years... =oP
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