Government health care anyone?
Here's another example of why the free market medical system isn't as evil as everyone thinks. It seems that between a single machine being assembled improperly and another machine being INCORRECTLY CLEANED, that almost 10,000 vets were possibly exposed to infection over the last five years.
Don't get me wrong. I think that health care costs are insane, ridiculous, and way inflated here in the US. But I remember a looney toon by the name of Michael Moore going on a talkshow and challenging probably the youngets woman in the audience on whether or not government health care should be dissolved, and then sucker punching her with the whole veteran issue, and how many of America's bravest men and women would go without health care.
What stuck me about it was that I saw this interview about 5 months after Walter Reid exposure, and I'm sure that had he been picking on an older, more seasoned member of the audience, it would have been mentioned and that would be that.
We seriously need some brilliant individuals to sit down and figure this thing out. The way I see the problem is that without insurance of any kind, most of America will go without health care. With private insurance, people who don't need so much healthcare bear the cost of those who do and hospitals and doctors take advantage of the fact that their paitents aren't paying the cost by overcharging the insurance companies. With government insurance comes government oversight and pressure, which causes standards to fall as seen in numerous veteran hospital examples.
Ultimately, I think that doctors are incapable of giving a fair shake to the bill unless their patients are paying for it, and their paitents are largely incapable of paying for the standard of care that they need, while the government is incapable of providing either.
Don't get me wrong. I think that health care costs are insane, ridiculous, and way inflated here in the US. But I remember a looney toon by the name of Michael Moore going on a talkshow and challenging probably the youngets woman in the audience on whether or not government health care should be dissolved, and then sucker punching her with the whole veteran issue, and how many of America's bravest men and women would go without health care.
What stuck me about it was that I saw this interview about 5 months after Walter Reid exposure, and I'm sure that had he been picking on an older, more seasoned member of the audience, it would have been mentioned and that would be that.
We seriously need some brilliant individuals to sit down and figure this thing out. The way I see the problem is that without insurance of any kind, most of America will go without health care. With private insurance, people who don't need so much healthcare bear the cost of those who do and hospitals and doctors take advantage of the fact that their paitents aren't paying the cost by overcharging the insurance companies. With government insurance comes government oversight and pressure, which causes standards to fall as seen in numerous veteran hospital examples.
Ultimately, I think that doctors are incapable of giving a fair shake to the bill unless their patients are paying for it, and their paitents are largely incapable of paying for the standard of care that they need, while the government is incapable of providing either.
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