This article in this morning’s paper says it all regarding universal health insurance. What really galls me is something we already know: health care will be rationed, the docs will be overwhelmed, and their reimbursements will dwindle. To that end, I was oh so pleased to see that my insurance company actually cut a check to my doc for $0.67. In their defense, they also cut him a check for the princely sum of $30 for my doc visit. Just to stick my foot in a pool of hungry sharks, this begs the question of how this type of overburdened and rationed health care will drive up the integrative care business.
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While I believe the US does need health care reform. How to do it is certainly the tougher question. A recent article from the BBC suggests that there 1/3 of Doctors have been assaulted. The reason:
"Doctors said dissatisfaction with the service was the main reason cited for the attacks, including frustration with waiting times and being refused medication."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/
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Waiting times have always been one of the sticking points with NHS and also pointed out in the article you linked to. Certainly hard to say what a good solution will be.
While I believe the US does need health care reform. How to do it is certainly the tougher question.
The trick is deciding what, exactly, needs reforming and who's paying for it. I enjoyed reading Robin Hood and feel some things are better left in the fiction realm. Robbing my paycheck to offer health benefits to someone else infuriates me. Why is it my responsibility to not only insure that my own family is taken care of but also shoulder the burden of others' (including illegal aliens) health care as well? Creating the Nanny mentality is not the way to make America strong.
Robbing my paycheck to offer health benefits to someone else infuriates me.
Isn't that exactly what the California Governator's tax on Dr's earnings is? Or do you feel it's OK to rob someone else's paycheck? Or just someone whose paycheck is "big enough"? (according to whom)
Whoa. I may be a conservative, but I'm no fan of Ah-nold. Additionally, I must have communicated poorly because my point is that I don't feel it's right to rob anyone's paycheck in order to provide free medical care to those who won't provide their family with health care. Yipee, it's free for them but certainly not for me or you. We end up paying twice; once for ourselves and once for the guy who carries a cell phone, nice car, and color TV but is "too poor" to get medical coverage. As far as I'm concerned, I've had it with the Governator dipping into my pocket.
No worries. I read you correctly; I just wanted to prod a little to make sure your outrage didn't stop at your own pocketbook.
wv="cobop": When you and I gang up on the real crayzees out there.
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