Sick ... Ooooh!
We have a growing problem in this country and it's presence as a political issue is getting hotter. It is quickly becoming one of five things that any Presidential candidate can't avoid having a policy statement on. And we can even include Hollywood as part of the bandwagon, of course, for better or worse. (I never did trust some of those famous people and their so called expertise.)
In this day and technological age we can treat just about anything. And with preventative medicine, we should have a country full of healthy people. Unfortunately we have 47 million Americans with little or no health coverage. For even the simple things. It seems from a humanistic stand point we should be doing something about this. If the old adage is true, "an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure", then our health care system needs to sit up an take notice.
Most of us can't get that preventative care covered by our insurance. Let's take birth control. Whether you agree with it or not, preventing a costly, unwanted pregnancy, is a great way to save money and a woman's health. Birth control typically cost $300 a year. Most insurance providers, now finally, offer some assistance with paying for it. But, in the recent past, they didn't. Insurance providers would willing foot the $5000 - $250,000 dollar delivery cost if you got pregnant, but not the cost of the birth control. Oxymoron? There's a lot of it in the insurance industry.
If you take your medication for heart problems, or even just exercise regularly, then you can avoid costly medical procedures and hospital stays. But, often, we just opt for the "easy way out" and go through the surgery and let the insurance company foot the bill, or if we live without insurance, sometimes, we pay with our lives.
I know where you're going with this, you're under the impression that I think a universal health care system would fix our woes. On the contrary. The government can't effectively and efficiently run...ANYTHING. Why in the hell would we want the over sized gorilla to take over health care? Have you been to a V.A. hospital recently? No thank you!!
I must say that some of the ideas presented here actually seem to have some merit. Especially encouraging doctors with "performance pay". I'm relieved that at least someone out there is thinking with their head and not their bottom line.
In this day and technological age we can treat just about anything. And with preventative medicine, we should have a country full of healthy people. Unfortunately we have 47 million Americans with little or no health coverage. For even the simple things. It seems from a humanistic stand point we should be doing something about this. If the old adage is true, "an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure", then our health care system needs to sit up an take notice.
Most of us can't get that preventative care covered by our insurance. Let's take birth control. Whether you agree with it or not, preventing a costly, unwanted pregnancy, is a great way to save money and a woman's health. Birth control typically cost $300 a year. Most insurance providers, now finally, offer some assistance with paying for it. But, in the recent past, they didn't. Insurance providers would willing foot the $5000 - $250,000 dollar delivery cost if you got pregnant, but not the cost of the birth control. Oxymoron? There's a lot of it in the insurance industry.
If you take your medication for heart problems, or even just exercise regularly, then you can avoid costly medical procedures and hospital stays. But, often, we just opt for the "easy way out" and go through the surgery and let the insurance company foot the bill, or if we live without insurance, sometimes, we pay with our lives.
I know where you're going with this, you're under the impression that I think a universal health care system would fix our woes. On the contrary. The government can't effectively and efficiently run...ANYTHING. Why in the hell would we want the over sized gorilla to take over health care? Have you been to a V.A. hospital recently? No thank you!!
I must say that some of the ideas presented here actually seem to have some merit. Especially encouraging doctors with "performance pay". I'm relieved that at least someone out there is thinking with their head and not their bottom line.
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