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Originally Posted by scotty
Why feed a lying, currupt beast though.?
Ok, you want to fix it? Why not advocate that we do something about the greedy pharmacies to bring the prices down ? Why not advocate that we do something about the greedy lawyers waiting outside hospitals and doctors offices for a chance at a frevilous lawsuit. Not to mention the greedy people who take them up on it.?
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The only way to bring costs down will be to intruduce outside competition. If we had an optional national health insurance program all Americans would be covered. As explained that will bring down the cost of health care because doctors will not be passing loss on to everyone else. With the public system being cheaper than the private insurance system the private insurance companies would have to bring their prices down to compete. Right now their is collusion going on between this massive companies where they secure eachother's interests and keep prices inflated so they can maintain their prophets. A national system would bring a competitive component to the system that would bring a balance.
France was #1. To the shagrin of the Canadians, the French system is a system like what Hillary is promoting, a government/private combination. This has worked to keep costs far lower in France than what we see in the US.
Also...in France doctors don't have to worry so much about malpractice insurance. The American malpractice litigation system is a mess, a nightmare for doctors. What's interesting is that we see people coming to the US to learn medicine and then leave the US to practice medicine. Doctors in the US have too much paperwork (thanks to the private insurance companies). They also have too many legal expenses. In France they have a sensible cap on malpractice rewards. This keeps the cost down and protects doctors. So yes...even a national system based on the European system would resolve the malpractice insanity.
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You remember the tobbaco settlements? How all that millions was going to cancer victims, hospitals, anti-smoking etc. Then a year or so later it came out that all the states had spent the money because their local governments were "broke" (what ever)
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The states are broke. I work for the government and let me tell you what's happened here. The Fed used to give us block grants and funding for various initiatives. The Bush administration cut a number of those block grands and funding initiatives. However, the Bush administration passed more laws we're required to abide by. So we have tons of unfunded mandates. We've had to raise local property taxes and sales taxes in various areas to make up for the difference and we're still in the red. Why did Bush cut funding? To give massive tax breaks to this billion dollar companies that helped him with the election. They also closed a number of middle class tax shelters and expanded shelters for those making over $200,000 a year. They shifted the tax burden to the Middle class and left the states with unfunded mandates. It's a real mess bro. Of course when the settlements came down we were already marching into the red.
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You talked at the beginning of this thread about addressing the root of the problem. Well there is the root of the problem. Its can't be solved by feeding the greed even more.
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Like I already said....Dr. William McGuire (CEO of United Health Care) walked away with 1.7 billion dollars in stock options....the same year nearly 18,000 Americans died because they were too poor to afford medical treatments and procedures that might have saved their lives.
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