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Government and Healthcare A Win-Win for them

July 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ) |  No Comments

    I still hear this debate about the new federal mandated health care that is trying to be forced into existence.  For one President Obama and other politicians are trying to push the passing of the new health care bill, and with parts constantly changing politicians can’t really read it.  Though in their defense even if they had the time to read it they wouldn’t, so all in all I guess nothing loss or nothing gained.  But there are real problems that many Americans should at least ask themselves before supporting this government project.
    One, the government will be in control, and I’ll quickly go over the ineptitude of current government run programs.  The TSA a government organization only catches 25% of contraband that they themselves test, meaning alot more stuff can get through.  When the government enters health care it’s even worse, the government takes care of Medicare…and if you notice many private organizations needed to invent Medicare Supplements so that people don’t fall through the cracks.  When you look at other countries health care systems you find many stories of people being denied treatment or people just being neglected.  I told a story during one of the show, where France needed to institute a law that said you couldn’t wait in an ambulance for more than five hours, something absolutely unheard of in our current system today.  I’d like to see how that’s treated here, “We arrived at the hospital, but you’re going to be here in this ambulance for the next four and a half hours…and then you can wait in the waiting room”.  I’m sure that I’d want to call ahead and reserve seating, something like I can do for an Outback Steakhouse.
    One of the biggest things I can’t understand that people are overlooking.  People who should be opposed to this new “government health care” aren’t opposed to it.  I know this isn’t big on people’s minds…but we want to pay more attention to that.  We all want government health care because we don’t want the evil companies taking advantage of us anymore.  Well if these people currently “screwing” us over, want this new health care we should start to wonder what’s in this legislation, or what we don’t know.  Think health care is a big funder of our current congress, if they wanted to they could crush this bill, as they have done so many times before.  Yet, their not why?  Because one of the ideas floating around, is requiring people to have health care and if you don’t have it…well the government will buy it for you.  See how the insurance companies can make a huge fortune off taxpayer backs?  Then the drug companies who have congress in their pockets, will lobby congress to only cover certain drugs…and the rest we’ll end up paying more for…once again…more money for those evil companies that we want to get rid of…this might be why they want this to pass.
    Congress is only to happy to quickly pass this legislation so that their buddies can make more money…and you the taxpayer will pay for it.  Once enacted, this system will never ever be pulled back.  I admit as anyone who has looked into the situation, is that the current system isn’t working, but getting the government involved isn’t the answer.  The same people who invented the DMV should never be put in charge of health care, its just common sense.  Instead moving away from health care and into a pay for service as needed like eye care is currently, and you’ll see prices come down a lot..because they would need to be affordable for the average person.  Then the control will be yours and your doctor…and only your control…both of the other suggestions puts someone not you in control of your health.  You can find countless stories of both insurers and governments denying health care for those who need it and when people beg nothing happens.  In the free market system, you can get treated and there would be organisations that would help for those emergency situations…but more people would survive.
     I know that all of this ranting will do nothing, that this government health care will pass, and because of it people will die.  This is just a normal nature of the American person now of days.  We all want the government to take care of us…and give up our freedoms in the process.  Well I know, only because it can’t continue this way, that this government will cause itself to fail.  Many state government are already going bankrupt and the federal government isn’t too far behind that.  The system either has to tax us at a higher rate…and the is only so much of that they can do, or cut their services (and we know they can never do that).  The system is doomed by it’s very existence…they can only grow so much before their system falls apart.

The healthcare debate

June 17, 2009 // Posted in Broken Systems (Tags: , , , , , , ) |  No Comments

    With Congress warming up the debate on the future of healthcare in this country, I though it was a good time to go over why this is a bad idea.  To name one, nothing that any congressional session or presidential office, that has made things easier and better, it will be a long time before you can think of something.  There are many out there, who would want to argue that fact and may try to point to some minimal example of where they may have made something better.
    The easiest point to make in this argument against government intervention is this simple point:  government has no incentive to make things quick and more efficient.  This is just a very simple and very powerful statement against this, the government will pay no more or less in healthcare for increased speed and better diagnosis.  So under the extra amount of more people who would be visiting the doctors and hospitals, you will have added delays in the time it takes for diagnosis and treatment.  There are incidents in other countries where care of people has been affected due to high volume.  I did a show last year, which in Europe there had to be a law passed that you couldn’t sit in an ambulance pass four hours.  That isn’t a problem that we currently expierance in this country in our current system.
    “Government Healthcare will be good for everyone” - Well this saying is easily disputed by looking once again at other countries where healthcare is government.  In Japan there was a story that the government enforced a weight limit for healthcare.  Now this wouldn’t be a first step in the US Government run health care, but as time passed and people complained about the increase in taxes, they would have to find ways to cut cost, I think that overweight people would be dropped first.  “Well it’s their fault for being overweight!” is an argument many of people would say.  The problem is that it’s a disorder, and these people would need to be covered just as well.  While people who currently have to avoid doctors could go, people who need doctors would have less access to them, causing issues.  In fact some people actually come to this country from Canada to have surgeries done, because there isn’t a reasonable timeframe for them to be done in their own country.
      Now I don’t want people to think I’m pro-HMO or current system, because I’m not.  In fact I agree with people that the system is broken, and government paying for it won’t solve it.  I think the opposite is true, that companies and government need to be out of healthcare.  I think that we should pay for healthcare, the same way we would with getting glasses or laser eye surgery.  I remember looking into laser eye surgery when it first came out, and it was so expensive that I would never be able to afford it.  Though after time, and as the procedure has gotten better and gotten more affordable, the same would happen with the healthcare system as a whole.  Now the savings wouldn’t be immediately, but as doctors competed for customers.  This also would take the decision making power out of government (proposed) and insurance companies (current) and put it in your hands.  Because you’d choose what you wanted to pay for and what you didn’t.  Even though you hear the government would take your decision away, you don’t have that decision currently.  Let’s make healthcare affordable and take it out of everyone else’s hands and bring it back to ours.  I bet we’d see better healthcare now, because your doctor would need to compete for your business.