Something I’ve Observed: Health care reform is a two headed snake

July 20, 2009 · Posted in Featured, Government, Health Care, Political Issues, Politics, Rant, Social Issues, Things to think about, Topic Blogs 

I am very confused and troubled by all the backlash and analysis of the health care reform proposals.  untitledHealth care is broken…or is it?  The current system employs millions of Americans in good paying, secure jobs in the private sector.  Those jobs could potentially be lost if more Americans were given “non-private” options at a cheaper price. 

Most insured Americans obtain their insurance from an employer based plan…so if you were to lose that plan are you obligated to now enroll in the government backed plan even if the provisions or coverage was not as good as your employer based plan?  However, if the portability option comes into play, you take the plan with you…but you don’t have your job anymore, so do you now pay the actual premium for the plan that your emplorer paid or does it adjust to a more affordable price while you search for a new employer plan?  I am hearing that many private based plans could disappear with these changes.

I am all for dissemination of medical techniques and procedures.  We should all be granted much more freedoms when it comes to how we are medically treated and what medicinal approaches we are most comfortable with.   If a “panel” of experts is assigned to a specific medical discipline and given the task of deciding best courses of treatments for people, does that sever the relationships people already have with their doctor when it comes to health choices?  Are we placing too much medical decision making in the best interest of the “whole” or the “individual”?

It’s not that I think the plan reformation will be a complete move to a Socialist plan, I am not that definitive in my thinking.   I just want to be sure that our leaders do not sway so far from the private sector that it has a negative impact on the good things the system currently provides. 

Which leads my thoughts in a completely different direction?  The current system is a market based health system in which individual, stock driven companies call most of the shots.  As much as I would like to believe there are regulatory forces in place, my gut tells me otherwise.  Multi billion dollar organizations have a lot of influence on health legislation and legislators.  Many ask the questions so why with all this market freedom, capital, and research funds…do we not have the magic number on treating societies major ills? (obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc) 

With all the focus on health, exercise, and wellness…why is 90% of our country still fat?  Does the balance swing back towards the food industry’s interest as well?  I think so….actually I don’t understand any of the statistics, the trends, the habits, the demographics, or why nothing ever seems to level out in the long run.    Does anybody know, please help me.

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One Response to “Something I’ve Observed: Health care reform is a two headed snake”

  1. they on July 21st, 2009 9:37 am

    I know you are listening to too many people who don’t know anything. The simplest thing I can tell you is this. Employers pay $12,000 a year, and that is an average, to cover Employee+Family, additionally the employee has a deductible and copay. How in the hell is this not a screwed up system when 1 healthy individual and his healthy family pay $12,000 a year just to see the doctors twice and pay for some antibiotics, which probably cost them another $50 plus the office copay visit.

    If socialized health care sucks so bad, why does every developed country around the world offer it, and why are there not riots for private care everyday in these free and developed countries. The answer is simple. People die everyday by the thousands in this country, because they did not receive basic medical care for years, and when they finally have no choice but to go bankrupt from health care it is too late, and they are cursed to die.

    One horror story after another comes over the airs waves. Man dies from denied liver transplant, waiting lists for surgeries. The long and the short of it, is the millions who die every year in this country from lack of health care go unnoticed or undisclosed, either way fall for the hype about care being worse, or your choices being taken away. If that were the case maybe there would have been one, just one, riot for private health care in the last 40 years.

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