Since the Health Care Bill its way through Congress and both liberals and conservatives worked quibble about all the things right (and how much is true), it seems the American people confused. Finally, there was only one years ago when we stormed the people for health care reform in such a mighty voice, had forced the politicians to give them priority over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economy too! (Although the two are related, but we keep it simple for now.) Will be lost with jobs in a frightening pace and the economy in ruins, was the last thing Obama wanted to discuss the new administration’s health care. But she belongs to us. And she began to work.
Now, nearly a year later, we are through our own surveys that say most Americans do not support health care reform. How could this happen? Did you change your mind? I, I do not know! It also seems like both the Liberals and Conservatives are not happy with the bill, which eventually emerged from the Congress, there is now a ram-rodded through the legislative pipeline. What could be the cause of such a state of affairs?
The answer is, of course Politricks. The usual combination of well-financed special interests a lot of time and resources to redesign how we think and feel, all about a particular topic. At one point during the discussions it became apparent that spent the largest health insurance industry lobby in DC almost $ 2.5 million per month to influence the debate. Most of those dollars went to the media. Suddenly various boogeymen kept popping up, one after the other: rationing, death records, “socialized medicine”, gutting Medicare, and the long-running: higher taxes! Before anyone could respond adequately to a charge, they would start the next offensive. And as always there is the constant threat of argument, how to pay for it all an argument that is at the base of any proposed change in America.
As the Mythbusters and Penn & Teller have been calm, I am therefore taking it upon myself to you the truth, plain and simple: it’s all bullshit. You and I and all of America has been carefully taught to think, incorrectly, as the old Steve Martin joke about teaching your children to inappropriate language, and watching the fun when they go to school. I wonder who laughs in the healthcare industry debate rages!
So let’s start at the center of the debate: the # 1, that Americans wrongly think about what the health sector. It is not gold. It is not oil. It is not pork bellies. In short, it is not a commodity. But let’s talk about it as if it were a product! We have to scrub that idea from our collective thinking. Instead, we need to care for what it really is to see: an essential service. It is the same as fire and police. Note how often the three are working together! Whenever there will be a major disaster, you see police, fire and ambulance. We are on these benefits, if we are in our deepest, are the most vulnerable state. Make you would imagine, what kind of hell if we are our police and fire departments in privatized for-profit institutions ”
You come back home after a dinner with the spouse apply only to your house on fire. You dial 911 and come in a few minutes the fire brigade. Visible flames erupt from one part of at home, but you think to yourself that most people, it can still be saved, “but then the fire chief comes to you to speak with a clipboard in his hand. He begins to think about your options: basic fire suppression, search and rescue, investigation and on and on. Then there are the fees: Mileage and pulled hoses, city water and so on. The whole time he’s talking about money when you leave the house on fire and no one is a lift finger until you can show your fire insurance card. “We also accept Visa and American Express!”
The hellish description of what might be, is exactly how we do things when it comes to health care.
# 2 The manner in which we wrongly think, is that health insurance is the health sector. In the last 30 years or so, we have the way we pay for a service with the service itself equated. The fact of the matter is that the health insurance companies are middlemen. Their goal is to provide customers with health, but with benefit to the shareholders and owners. Therefore, they work very hard to maximize their yields, by steadily increasing premiums, while minimizing their overhead costs in the form of payments, with this tactic as denied claims, underpaid for goods and services, second-guessing medical decisions and even connect people from the coverage only when they need it most. It is not that they are evil. They’re just businessmen, to do what all companies do earn: Cash. The real problem here is that they do not belong in this position. They are a mismatched component, an unnecessary elements in a system that by the end, a wrench in the works. Because they hold the purse, they are entitled to overrule the decisions of doctors and hospitals, and we, the “customers” have allowed this to happen.
We can see on the surface of the similarities between all the main services, so we must ask ourselves what is different about health care? Why is it so special? The short answer is: not at all. The only way they differ is how we think about it. Or, as we have learned to think.
Instead, the idea that she had deceived to accept, I say people actually had at this time! “Heath care is more expensive,” they say. My answer: in what way? Have you ever bought a fire truck? Do you know what a fully loaded police cruisers cost? Do you have any idea what the prison system costs taxpayers each year, and what your share is this? The health sector is indeed expensive, but most of us, their services will have less than police and fire departments. Lest we forget, taxpayers sent men to the moon, which was a ridiculously expensive. We finance war expenditures, which have in any projection for Health dwarf. When it comes to dollars and cents, health care for all is achievable.
The next argument: “Medicare is broken, the government can not run anything!” But we take it as an article of faith that we are “the best army in the world.” As the government is perfection at one end, and a total inability on the other side? When one digs into the details, we can most of the financial problems trace politicians jacking money from one program to another. The fact is that private health insurance, the costs of its customers 30 cents of every dollar, while Medicare is working at about one tenth of that amount, three cents per dollar. Advocates of universal health care to point out all the other countries that led the government insurance, such as Britain, Canada, Germany and France, which has by the way, to citizens with the highest quality of healthcare in the world. Critics point out any problems with anyone, most of them for money. Canada’s waiting list but are now legendary. The United Kingdom is among those providing the lowest quality of care and the French system goes bankrupt.
But reasonable people recognize that all programs of all kinds will be imperfect. They will solve all problems. If you wait for perfection that will, you paralyzed for life! Instead, let’s look at what we have. First, we are not the system the most expensive per person every industrialized nation, but we are ranked # 27 as to the quality of healthcare. Critics talk of rationing, yet insurance companies routinely limit the amount of coverage they provided for a particular procedure, including chronic diseases. You yell “Death to panel”, while insurance companies take dialysis patients from their policy for some minor paperwork errors. In short, all the sins attributable to a government run health care are now being posed by our for-profit insurance industry.
When Obama was campaigning, and speak of a single-payer system, he founded the insurance cartels in full swing. They considered it a “shot across the bow”, as a potential end to their gravy train access to pockets of residents. Finally, they have one thing that has hardly any other industry: the exclusion of the anti-trust laws! Thus, they can deny and monopolize as much as they want, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Some say: “They should be allowed to sell across national borders, and compete!” But this is not a drawback: it’s exactly how the industry wants it. As the organized crime bosses, they have divided the country into “turf”. The deny to keep prices high by mutual consent and a lack of competition makes it possible to continue during a foreclosure of competitors, which might want to “muscle” and give them a real competition. Until this situation is changed, do not expect any real reform.
“and the only way to change them if Congress acts.
This can be a lightbulb moment for some readers! This explains for example why the term “single payer was demolished,” to the table at the beginning! It also explains the vigorous opposition to a “public option” because the health insurance industry is one of the biggest campaign contributors with the lobbyists in DC. Its representatives of the people, the United States are almost all in the pocket of big insurance.
Now here is where I want to come close to a few, and the toes are liberals. Health care is not a right. As cool as it sounds so much like us with the feeling may well be true, the rights are very specific in one way: They ask for nothing from others, apart from respect. For example, your freedom of speech, press, freedom of assembly, freedom of self-defense, the Worship and so on need anyone to give you something, or uncompensated any kind of service. For example, was not your right to a free press, that the state provide for you with a printing press! But you buy is free if you can post and what you want. Gives you your second amendment rights and have the right to protect yourself and your family with a weapon does not require, however, the government in order to offer a.
But if health care is a right, then doctors and nurses to our slaves, and slavery is a violation of their rights, not to mention the Constitution! Instead, argue that few people would have access to medical care is not a right and that right is already at the 9th Change will be met, because it seems a generally recognized right to the whole world. Easy to be free, to the insurance company agreed to choose one deals with is not the same as free access!
We The People must reconnect and noise for a true, universal, single-payer system. We need to socialize “health care as we have socialized police and fire department! As an experienced surgeon, we have to cut the cancer that the health insurance industry, and let them be happy to assure our lives, cars and real estate. To a greater degree, we must regain control of company of men, the abolition of the Santa Clara decision, and taking away their special rights “but that’s another battle for another day. Must stop now because we think the lie that the industry sells, but the debate about what it is to see, let them stop kidnap our heads and see that the emperor has no clothes! DEMAND a single-payer system, uncheck the congressmen and women who have sold us out to large insurance and participating, Are you aware of your reps! Call, write and e-mail. Become a parasite, and make sure they know your name. They work for you, not the insurance cartels. Remember it to you that hard! And what is President Obama going to. Let him know if he can not, then we can!
