I think this could be a defining moment in our evolution as a republic. Everyone is all over everyone else on this issue. Do we, as Americans, have a *right* to health care
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No matter how you feel about the proposals being offered, we need a change. We can always change the change. But it needs to be something other than business as usual.
I've no illusions about how efficient a government managed health care system will be. But as bad as I expect it to start, at least it will be as start. If the system we get is not as good as we'd hoped, then we can tweak it. But if we don't get something through, government inertia will insure thing will ever get done.
You're absolutely right that US healthcare needs fixing. However, throwing government at a problem has a very, very poor record of fixing it. In fact, government bureaucracy has a bad tendency to screw up everything it touches, and the bigger the bureaucracy, the worse the problem. I have very little confidence that government intervention will do anything but make matters worse. One thing that is for sure is that government-managed change, once put in place, is almost impossible to remove. Government never willingly gives up any power it has once gained.
I see four basic things that need to be fixed:
1. The idea that insurance should cover EVERYTHING, and therefore should be involved in everything clear down to doctors' office visits, which has driven up the cost of providing basic services to the point that what the insurance company wants as a copay is now what used to be the doctor's entire fee. Medical insurance was originally just to cover unplanned catastrophic expenses, and in that role it worked. Now, it's become a
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I've no illusions about how efficient a government managed health care system will be. But as bad as I expect it to start, at least it will be as start. If the system we get is not as good as we'd hoped, then we can tweak it. But if we don't get something through, government inertia will insure thing will ever get done.
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I see four basic things that need to be fixed:
1. The idea that insurance should cover EVERYTHING, and therefore should be involved in everything clear down to doctors' office visits, which has driven up the cost of providing basic services to the point that what the insurance company wants as a copay is now what used to be the doctor's entire fee. Medical insurance was originally just to cover unplanned catastrophic expenses, and in that role it worked. Now, it's become a ( ... )
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