Have you ever started to wonder what is going to happen to our health care system if one of these proposed plans ever reaches the light of day? Pundits say it is “impossible” for the proposed plans to cause the termination of Medicare because it is “so popular.” There is, however, no way to float a national health care system without destroying anything that is good about the one we have.
It will be some trick if a government sponsored national health care plan manages to survive without creating massive supply and demand distortions. I’m still trying to figure out how my doctor, who I struggle to see when I need him, is going to take on twice as many patients as he now has and still provide me with a valuable service. Most of the time I currently see his Physician’s Assistant or his Nurse, so if he doubles his load I will only bee seeing a medical tech of some kind. I might as well just buy a good medical book.
I am also interested in knowing why my employer would be willing to continue to pay for my somewhat expensive health care coverage when he knows that I could at any time go on a much cheaper federal plan.
As I have noted on this blog in the past, I’m not totally against changing the system that now exists. I think the system is not being run in our best interest, how can it be when it is a puppet that belongs to big insurance companies? Health care is one of those sacred areas where capitalism just shouldn’t be. Do we need to make a buck on everything? Years ago society left health care to health care providers. Now it is run like a consulting business and you will find that, unless you are wealthy, you simply can’t afford those top shelf services that you may absolutely need.
A restructuring of the health care system is relatively easy. Fix prices for services, and have the prices associated with hard costs . . not associated with lost profits as they are today. Get the insurance companies out of the health care industry once and for all, but don’t substitute the government, that’s crazy.
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I also wonder about how many new working professionals there will be in the industry in the next few years. Not everyone can finance the education costs involved with becoming a medical worker.
And the point about employer-funded health care could be a rude awakening for someone who suddenly has to fund their own.
I have been down that road, $ 800 plus per month and since I was not part of a group the coverage was not that good. I am a real skeptic however regarding the changes that are being proposed. Clearly they are going to cost a ton of money. If I end up having to pay, through taxes, as much or more as I would have paid out of pocket and not get the same care that I would get today then that is a really bad deal. They say that there is no way that you can put everyone on the system and not have a massive loss in quality of care.
Being with an insurance company to covered my care needs and just spending to much of it means i’m just wasting my money on it, i don’t know how they manage not to give quality care if all they need to do is give what we need. Treating as fairly not just for our money.
I just want to give emphasis with the line of the last paragraph. What does it mean relatively easy? Is it about the decrease of our medicine cost? Well, I think, if this will happen it could help our citizens to save more in their medicine. Am I right?
I guess it’s true, some people will not be able to afford top shelf services, unless you are wealthy. Unfortunately, not all have the money, agree? Anyway, whatever changes there will be in the future, I hope, there won’t be changes as to the quality of services they provide.
That’s right Krisskross, there should be no changes in the quality of the services they provide. Actually, I don’t need the top shelf services for as long as I am very well taken care of, that would be enough. What do you think?
If only the health care can be affordable by many and not just the wealthy, it will be alright. Its sad that nowadays people tend to make money out of everything especially the health care. Imagine that.
I think many have the false hope that quality will not drop dramatically. There is absolutely no way that you can serve the poor, illegal immigrants and others for free with a health care system run by the government that will provide quality service. There are few government programs that are run with efficiency, and a national healthcare system would likely not be efficient.
One of the things I absolutely hated about military medical coverage was the fact that I had no recourse against those providing the services. When they mis-diagnosed a member of my family with TB, there was no recourse. If they kill you during a minor surgery, do you think that your family will be compensated because the government provided an inept surgeon? No. You will take what you get and be happy that it was provided at all. It’s called treatment with no responsiblity for the outcome. Not exactly what I was hoping for.
Is capitalism is equivalent to monopoly ? Why in otherwise free society like US, monopoly of few industries in crucial areas like health care and energy is tolerated. Okay we do not want a totally socialistic system and govt. controls on every thing but in a few ares which are closely linked with majority of population we need to break these monopolies even at the cost of govt. control. Otherwise there will be no one to hear voice of economically weaker sections of our society.
If the restructuring of the health care system is relatively easy and still was not done, does that mean that the government are paying attention to it at all?
Health is wealth as the saying goes and it must be the priority of the government..who will lead in the near future if the young of today is sickly and the likes??
You’re right lyka. Well, I think, our government today would implement project related to the medicine cost. I’m really sure if it was being implemented worldwide. Are you aware of it guys?