Words for healthcare

Healthcare is not broken, the cost is. Hundreds of $Billions$ have gone into medical R&D so you / family can get some of the best treatment the world knows. And NO, it's not free, nothing is. Even free volunteers have costs such as transportation & supplies.

Since the brutal cut and sew of WWII, our medical advancements have increased logarithmically. With the elimination or drastic reduction in old deadly diseases like polio, small pox, or death from infections. “Magic Bullet” pills are no longer a dream, but soon?

It's only a hundred years ago medical schools formalized and standardized practices. Where before if you read more than one book about medicine decades old you could call yourself a doctor. Today you're out of step in a week, obsolete in a month and malpractice in a year. Healthcare is broken? Hogwash! LIES! Deception! Go live in Africa, India, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Kenya.

If some aren’t happy with the results, they sue. The cost of practice insurance escalates and health professionals have to charge more for the greed of some and lawyers who take 35-60% of the settlement. Fix health care by revising Tort law and reduce costs for service providers.

Mistakes should be remedied and bad healthcare providers removed quicker and not shielded by unions or professional Assoc. that govern them. Second chance training should be the first option for improvement, then demotion or loss of license. Three strikes.

Since nobody is perfect, though we demand it, bad things have and will happen because not everyone’s skill level is equal, not everyone got an ‘A & B’ in school or training. Good Doctors are constantly studying and learning; do you put that much into your job? My primary GP puts in over 60 hrs. a week and any free time studying.

Healthcare also includes jobs, from teachers to Doctors to hospitals and researchers and the ambulance drivers. Jobs for makers of tongue depressors, bandages, antiseptics, and equipment; who pays them? The Patients or their Insurance end up paying these costs. You can’t be outsourcing these jobs because of too high costs. Every worker expects compensation; nothing is free.

When I was a boy, there were horse drawn wagons that came down our block, an ice vender for “ice boxes” and a produce vender. Both horses had blinders to see only where their owner directed them, so not to be distracted, or panic by some unknown.

When someone says that any politician is “out of step with ...” I think of the horse blinders. What they’re saying is out of step with their beliefs. I don’t think a candidate for office is stupid or living in Outer Mongolia. However, they may be in LOCKSTEP with their party line or they would not be picked to run for election.

I'm sorry; healthcare is not broken. The Democrats of Congress, with a filibuster proof majority since 2006, drafted and passed the legislation ignoring any input. The majority Democrats voted down every Republican proposed amendment. Then every elected party member claimed the republicans were "the party of no!” Which every loyal party adherent regurgitated the buzz words.

The Democratic Legislators followed the party line without planning the outcome that was full of loopholes. It gave health insurance companies 3 years to modify policies and raise prices. HOWEVER, put off the full effect of their plan until 2013 to be beyond the next Presidential election and protect incumbents. In addition, it gave an exemption to union and government employees and their pensioners health insurance benefits’ which are golden.

My Major University medical center has already began refusing new Medicare patients and ALL medical insurance plans' automatic contract renewals for its hospitals and clinics. At present, I'm still treated as a current Medicare patient, but for how much longer. This care level is not available everywhere.

When this HealthCare Reform phases in it will drastically cut even further the compensation to the medical profession to allegedly payback the stimulus. It doesn’t do anything to cut the costs to those in healthcare. Where's that money coming from?

Just as there have been cutbacks of Medicaid that forces low income and disabled to wait until they're so sick they have to go to the County hospital ER because family clinics can't treat them and pay their bills. A disabled friend works +/- 20 hours a week, as she is able to, and makes too much money to get Medicaid, has partially retired at 62 on SSA, but can't get Medicare until 65,has no health insurance that cost more than she makes. Her pride and work ethic prevents her from quitting and applying for Medicaid.

HOWEVER, the SDP (Socialist Democratic Party) can point to how they "fixed a broken healthcare system" for the next two elections, which will recycle the current incumbents. Giving them six more years to change the Country and another step towards socialized medical care. Like in Countries with 40-50% income taxes; Canada, France, Germany, England, Sweden, Netherlands, etc.

This is my opinion. I hope you’ve read this far. I have opinions, everyone does, but I’m not “dogmatically opinionated.”

What I write is open to whosoever hath a desire to see another’s opinion and I’m open to critical debate from someone with something to say. People with closed minds need not apply.