The Center for American Progress has a helpful sheet on the myths and realities of health care reforms. You can find it here. The video version is here.
Government provided health care is not more expensive than our system. How do I know? Because nearly every industrialized country provides universal health care to its citizens at lower cost than the US. Just a minute! They provide better care than our system. Got it, better care...
... and lower costs. Why is that, you say? Health insurance companies maximize their profits by not providing the very services that you pay them to provide.
The list of problems with our system goes on and on. It makes our industry less competitive, drains money from patient care for administrative costs, and causes myriad societal problems.
One last point. What two groups are the biggest consumers of health care in the country? The elderly and children.
What two groups already have government provided health care coverage? The elderly and children.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Myth versus Reality about health care
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Bill, I am trying to coordinate a health care reform informational meeting at an upcoming democratic town committee meeting. i am in the process of contacting and lining up Dr. Jeremy Sterns of Mattapoisett to speak. I will keep you updated.-Ray Medeiros Jr.
Good luck with that.
thanks anon 12:53 --Ray
Bill, Elderly and children might be the biggest consumers of health care. Lets not assume that ALL elderly and children are on government healthcare, that simply is not true.
More children have private insurance through employers than you could possibly imagine.
Any other aspects of OUR government you'd like to socialize?
In a recent interview with The New York Times Magazine where he discussed many of his economic policies, President Obama has given an early indication as to the true costs of his health care reform agenda, particularly the ultimate costs to seniors.
Using his grandmother as an example, he explained how health care decisions, such as the hip replacement surgery she received after being diagnosed with cancer, might not be available to Americans in the future due to the costs, unless you have the money to pay out of pocket like Obama can.
I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement, just because she's my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model is a very difficult question.
OUR government is already socialized, we, the people, are in charge. It's our health care that I want to socialize. Why don't you want everyone to have health care? We can do it for less than we spend now.
Yes, there are difficult decisions to be made. I think that the decisions should be made by the patient, their families, and their doctor. Not by the government and not by insurance companies.
OUR government is already socialized, we, the people, are in charge. It's our health care that I want to socialize
Right Bill, don't let Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution get in your way. This article defines the POWERS OF the CONGRESS and does not allow for government health care. Perhaps we need a Constitutional amendment before we can get socialized health care
The first sentence of Article 1 Sectiopn 8 says, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
The last sentence of Article 1 section 8 says, "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof"
This is known as the elastic clause and has a long history of being used to allow other powers than those specifically enumerated in Section 8.
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