What is the real alternative to Universal Health Care?
Posted in Alternative Healer on 10/31/2008 06:32 pm by The Healthy one
More outrageous profits for the health care industry while people and businesses struggle under yearly double digit $ increases, and more and more go without insurance because they can’t afford it.
And what is the argument against UHC from the apologists? Tort reform - and it’s a fat lie that it would do anything. Profits zoom, and payouts continue to decrease. They’re just protecting their selfish interests - and blaming it on everyone but themselves.
Conscience? What’s that?
Sure pal - this coming from an insurance industry weenie. Pot kettle black.
My business covers all my people - and I pay 75% of the coverage and subsidize the families who struggle.
My brother is an MD, and he has trouble getting the insurers to pay him - most are 4-6 months late over the terms. They know he has no choice but accept it because medical ethics require him to take patients where he lives - there are no other specialists where he lives.
As for no evidence - Here’s the only one needed: We in the US pay DOUBLE for health care over what any other industrialized does - and our system doesn’t work. The people here are sicker, die sooner, infant mortality is more like a third world country, and on and on.
Where is the extra money going? To the doctors? To the hospitals? No -it goes to the insurance companies, and the drug companies.
Free market my @ss. It hasn’t worked.
Caleb
