This week in Congress, the great HEALTHCARE debate is to start and Obama is to announce his ideas about how to pay for healthcare reform which appears to be to pay hospitals less for their services and to tax the coverage workers get now from their employers?
I have written about this issue many, many times and because we have Democrats (read Socialists) in power, we have to be extra careful on what we allow to happen.
I truly believe that a compromise between Democrats and Republicans is possible because, basically, we all agree that something needs to be done and we are even agreeing on some of the steps that need to be taken.
The fundamental sticking point is what the role of our government is to be in the new health system. MEDICARE & MEDICAID are proof that our government should NOT run any health plan. For those that don’t know how mismanaged, inefficient and downright corrupt those plans are, you will just have to take my word for it.
We all agree that all Americans need to posses health coverage – whether they like it or not! The forty (40) million uninsured figure that is usually bandied about includes twenty (20) million young people that just plainly don’t want to part with their beer money to pay for something they feel they do not need – right now.
So what we are left with is 20 million that either cannot afford coverage or would just use the free ER care which they are legally entitled to.
So we all agree that we, as a nation, need UNIVERSAL COVERAGE but we all MUST also agree that enlarging MEDICARE to allow all these uninsured millions is NOT the way to go because as I said before, our government cannot run or administer that program and we have solid proof of that.
There are Democrats (Ted Kennedy for one) that have always dreamed of a single-payer, government run system known as SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (U.K / Canada) and they will try to resurrect that idea. That effort needs to be slapped down fast and hard like it was when Hillary tried it some years back.
So let’s start by all agreeing that MANDATORY UNIVERSAL COVERAGE must be instituted and those that really cannot afford coverage must be SUBSIDIZED in some form or fashion.
I have written about this issue many, many times and because we have Democrats (read Socialists) in power, we have to be extra careful on what we allow to happen.
I truly believe that a compromise between Democrats and Republicans is possible because, basically, we all agree that something needs to be done and we are even agreeing on some of the steps that need to be taken.
The fundamental sticking point is what the role of our government is to be in the new health system. MEDICARE & MEDICAID are proof that our government should NOT run any health plan. For those that don’t know how mismanaged, inefficient and downright corrupt those plans are, you will just have to take my word for it.
We all agree that all Americans need to posses health coverage – whether they like it or not! The forty (40) million uninsured figure that is usually bandied about includes twenty (20) million young people that just plainly don’t want to part with their beer money to pay for something they feel they do not need – right now.
So what we are left with is 20 million that either cannot afford coverage or would just use the free ER care which they are legally entitled to.
So we all agree that we, as a nation, need UNIVERSAL COVERAGE but we all MUST also agree that enlarging MEDICARE to allow all these uninsured millions is NOT the way to go because as I said before, our government cannot run or administer that program and we have solid proof of that.
There are Democrats (Ted Kennedy for one) that have always dreamed of a single-payer, government run system known as SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (U.K / Canada) and they will try to resurrect that idea. That effort needs to be slapped down fast and hard like it was when Hillary tried it some years back.
So let’s start by all agreeing that MANDATORY UNIVERSAL COVERAGE must be instituted and those that really cannot afford coverage must be SUBSIDIZED in some form or fashion.
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