Re: I Have Seen The Light.... I Am Now A Republican

George's ProSound Company wrote:
"betsey" <twoxover@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2b5ca0ab-7673-472d-b5ed-22b78ce66fe5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sep 17, 8:26 pm, "George's ProSound Company" <bm...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It
would be nice if people took responsibilities for their
actions.........

betsey

it would be nice if the government was as worried about the 60 million
without health insurance as they are about makeing sure those with the
where-with-all to be share holders and investors ability to not lose the
money that had to spare and put at risk

George-

Here's a question for you....what do YOU think the govm't should do
about health care? please, be specific, not generalties. I'm not
trying to start a fight here....i'm truly interested in your opinion.
I've got my own opinions...but i'm interested in yours as well.

I believe that we should offer medical education and have available a military like medical corp that serves those without the means to get the care fr the provider of thier choice, just like the corp of engineers that builds leeves for cities
we can create a force to go gut foriegn counties we certenly can create a army of doctors to cure or sick.
take the money from the military war budget and the war on drugs to pay for it




This is a problem that defies easy solution. Oh, it can be solved. But in most of the rest of the western world, there is a desire for everyone to be protected. Here we pay lip service to it, but generally act as though if we can afford health insurance, the people who can't--well, too bad.
The problem is that many of us grew up in the postwar world where the corporation took care of the socialist function. That's why the auto industry here is dying--GM has those darned "legacy costs" that other countries don't. But the big corporations are wising up fast, and if you don't know that health packages offered by big employees have deteriorated, you're not paying attention.
For those of us who purchase our own insurance, it's no secret--premiums have been going up about 10% every January. But the mass of insured who have gotten this as a basic benefit of employment have no idea what is happening--unless they become ill and find out how deductibles, copays etc. have gone up and yearly maximum benefits have gone down. They may also notice that many of the doctors they've seen in the past no longer "take" their insurance.
Medicare reimbursement rates have gone down too. There has been a net move of doctors out of primary care into specialties that are less subject to the whims of managed care.
These changes are unsustainable. When it was just the poor, no one cared. Then came Medicaid and Medicare, and most people were OK. Then the working poor started slipping through the cracks. Now the middle class are slipping through the cracks. And even those who have the better insurance policies are finding their choices of physicians curtailed, their out of pocket expenses higher.
Now, people are waking up--because it effects them. When we get enough of the middle class suffering, the political will to do something will magically appear. Unfortunately, it's likely to be a band-aid, applied in panic--because the federal deficit will not support it without massive tax increases. It's us--the baby boomers--who will force it to happen. It should be interesting to see what the next administration puts out--and if the storytelling is even more "creative" than what the Bush administration spun when they finally let through the prescription drug benefit under Medicare--about what it would REALLY cost.

Should be interesting...

Steve

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Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
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Brooklyn, NY
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