Government Sponsored Health Care What You Need to Know
61Whose Choice Will It Be?
As the arguments flow back and forth, about who we are going to trust to administer our health care, we need to decide who best can deliver the goods. What motives drives the different positions and who stands to win or lose?After years of mismanagement, corruption, and criminal neglect we are at a crossroads. The government has decided that the only resolution to this issue has to be a government run and funded health care plan that in the beginning will insure the 30-40 million, the numbers change almost daily, who have no health care insurance coverage at all.As an added benefit this plan will also create competition with the Private Health Care Providers thereby, in theory, lower the cost of insurance to all Americans. The provision for allowing anyone who is now insured by a private provider to switch to the Government plan is not only encouraged but , indeed, expected and with the lower costs many millions of Americans will switch. to the new plan. Opponents of the plan decry the cost to the treasury of anywhere from 500 billion to 2 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years. They also are firmly opposed to the idea of the Government running the health care system and the loss of freedom of choice and the fear of the quality of our health care system declining to drastic levels. The special interest campaigns are in full swing and , depending on who your believe, we are either going to have the most compassionate and affordable health care system in the world with every American covered or we are going to have a rationed health care system where people will die while waiting for treatment. The health care systems of Canada and Great Britain are the two examples being used, to great effect, by both sides. What is the truth about the Canadian and British systems and which side of the debate is telling the truth?
In our next segment we will take a look at the Canadian system of health care. It's called Medicare and it is certainly something all Americans should take a closer look at.
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Thanks for your comment Nan I appreciate your opinion. I tried to read your hub but it wouldn't come up properly. I wrote a second part to this article and if you get the chance to read it I would welcome any comments.
I agree that something must be done for those who have no medical coverage. While they have free access to emergency room across the country that is not the answer for these people. The one thing that needs to change is that the discussion must include, and indeed be led by the people themselves and the medical professionals who will be directly affected by any radical changes. If we allow the politicians, on both sides, and the special interests to hijack the agenda then the health care "solution" will be a contrived back room deal that leaves the people on the outside.
I agree with you Nan socialized medicine in not the answer. In the end it does not work. What is needed is a new approach where the "heath care" of the people is the true focus. It needs to be a fair, open and affordable for all. We need to take the time to get it right. Rushing a bill through will not solve the problem. Getting it right is more important that rushing something through before the "window of opportunity" closes.
Nan Mynatt says:
2 weeks ago
Please read my article. I don't think that the citizens want socialize medicine. Some people want to have their private insurance, with the coverage they choose. The public does not want to pay for other people's insurance.
That is the reason for the protest. However, we should not let people suffer with no medical coverage.