Thursday, July 30, 2009
Our health care and our country,,,,
Lately, health care has been really popular in today's news. Should the United States have free health care or is our system the only way to do it? Years ago the Water Gate scandal was revealed, which was when the FBI bugged a hotel room to spy on the president and revealed plenty of corrupted plans that he made deals with, some included health care. It revealed that the insurance has our government in their pocket, and the president knew about it. The United States does not exactly need insurance, the French do not have insurance, they have free health care, yet they still remain to be a strong country. Why is it that the French can do it, yet we cannot? No matter what, the insurance makes profit off anyone who has it at one point in time. There are some people who are completely healthy for years and years, yet they have to pay out of pocket every month for something that "might" happen. Insurance companies also do everything they can to deny claims which makes me wonder why have insurance if they are just going to deny it anyway? All people are created equal so who is to say if we can get health care or not? There are thousands and thousands of Americans who are chronically sick or have broken bones and do not want to go to the doctor's or the hospital because they simply cannot afford it when it is vital for their life. Instead of all of our money going towards insurance, they could go towards more useful things like more law enforcement or fire fighters or medical technology. There are plenty of other things that our insurance money could be spent on besides something that "might" happen. I just do not understand that if countries in Europe can do find with free health care, then why doesn't our government step up and catch up with everyone else?
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The blog titled Our health care and our country,,,, by the Blog Site U.S. Government talks about the state of the Health Care system in our Country. It explains the need for health care reform, by sighting the French and their no cost Health Care.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with this on several points. Health care has been the talk of the town lately and there needs to be something done about it, and fast. Americans without health insurance is on the rise and a no cost health plan would be beneficial to those that do not have health insurance.
Kids need this type of program more than ever. There are millions of kids with debilitating diseases and no health insurance. Or they have been denied based on a pre-existing condition, how is this fair at all? Emergency visits are sometimes a must for lots of people that do not have or can afford insurance.
The U.S. should step back and look at the “Health” of America. It is declining every day. With H1N1, AIDS as well as cancer. The later are very costly to treat and without insurance Americans will go broke paying for costly medical bills when there are solutions that the government can implement.
Last Thursday, our friend Mediana wrote a blog entitled "Our Health Care and Our Country" about a potential health care reform proposal that she agrees with. That is, in a nutshell: some major European countries survive as world powers providing only free healthcare and no insurance, why shouldn't the US do the same?
ReplyDeleteWell, saying that the French do not have health insurance is untrue, but her overall idea still rings true. French health care is provided by the government and does not include extensive waitlists like those distastefully found in the Canadian system. In fact, according to Paul Dutton, the World Health Organization ranked France as #1 in healthcare in 2001, with the United States at #37.
The way Dutton paints it, French insurers aren't "out to get" their clients, the way Mediana makes it seem American insurers are. I understand generally that American insurance companies in general do "everything to deny a claim," as she says, but I do wish that she would provide a case in point. Otherwise it is hard to completely side with her.
Another point to address is that France pays a considerable $3,500 per capita to provide for their healthcare, and their taxes to help cover healthcare are rising. Compared to the US, however, which pays $6,100 per capita, France's price is almost a pittance.
Applying this in reality, we must take into account that the United States has about five times as many people as France and covers at least fifteen times more land. Our girth is a considerable factor in the strength of centralized enforcement of programs. That is, we may not be as apt to quickly spread these healthcare reforms as France was and would be.
Yet another unaddressed point is why American insurance companies are the major issue concerning health care. America's capitalism is its pride, and its economy is the best in the world. This is precisely because of the tenacity of business, for better or for worse. American insurance companies are going to be accommodated to some extent, at the very least they will not be completely abolished.
The same goes for changing healthcare policy in America. Many accommodations will have to be made for voters to side with any healthcare reform. No change so dire as complete government control or free healthcare will go over easily, much less a complete drop of an economic institution like insurance.