Over 80 views and not one comment? Guess it's hard to understand why one works and the other is a disaster. I've got a theory...it's called commitment.
I don’t agree. Commitment on the part of the government means that the person has no say in the treatment, the type of treatment or when they receive it.
I heard from my relatives for years how great the system is, until my cousin was diagnose with a brain tumor. He didn’t even bother to seek treatment, he just died and he explained that in Canada because of his age (70’s) and the limits they have, he would end up dying anyway. He worked in the health care industry there and is one of three who died from cancer over there. Just recently his daughter went through colon cancer treatment and will be operated on this week; she was on a waiting list for diagnostic procedures. She ended up coming here and seeing the same doc that treated my mother with her cancer and he made it clear that if Canada would get off their a** and start allowing scans on demand (take your pick of which letters to put in front of the word) than most of these things would be caught early. Instead, the lady is going to be operated on this week here in the states and will pay for the commitment by having most of her colon removed.
Ya see the US is not commited to any program because of the split between the tradtionalists...and the new generation. So what happens is you have a hodge podge mixed up attempt at these programs...
No the US should not be committed to any program, once a commitment takes place, then the controls are put in place to ensure that the power sits with the government and not the people. With these controls, the people who actually work for supporting the system will be the ones who get to use it the least because of their commitment to maintain their life style and the actual need to support their family.
Unless you are completely clueless, there is no real hodgepodge of anything.
Most of the complaints are from people who don’t care to take some responsibility for their health by being involved with it. It is not even a matter of trust, but of laziness on tier part, they want to see some super government to come in and solve all their problems so they can sit on their fat a** and eat themselves to death. I seen it a lot when I worked with hospitals, I seen it a lot when I would go to the docs, people didn’t care to ask questions but expected top drawer service with crappy insurance and not caring if they got over charged.
The health care well at least in Ontario it's to say the least in transition...but I am sure over the years it'll improve again...since health care is a provincial responsibilty depending on thier economy each will improve at a different rate...unlike Alberta that is covered by the profits of oil sales.
The problem with this is one word – Michigan. We as a state can not possibly provide state wide services without a complete overhaul of not only the insurance industry, the medical industry but also the state and federal level. The fact that the state already provides too much of unaccountable services to many who don’t need it, shows the lack of management skills in government alone and YOU want to hand them a blank check?
What I'd like to see down here for now is an insurance carrier have a list of services and let ME pick what I need and they give me a price on those services...instead of fixed packages that I don't feel that I want. You know customer service?
You know Ken the problem is government with mandates from the state. Many insurance companies have to deal with some mandates because they have state contracts.
If you want choices, it has to happen at the state level first, not the federal level. At the federal level, changing the tax system will help a lot, replacing the present system with something like the Fair Tax will giveback the control to the people with money and is a great start.
But the bigger problem really is the cost for some stuff. For example, my wife sees a lot of the procedures that are paid out by insurance companies, one such procedure is laser surgery. At $5000 a crack, there are a number of insurance companies who will pay for Tattoo removal at $5000 for EACH tattoo. She ran into one that she reviewed where a 17 year old had 5 of them removed – a total of $27,000 was billed to the insurance company and they paid it. I use the sex change operations and treatments, which I some insurance companies will pay for but it comes back to us, the people who pay the premiums, to foot the bill.
With any government controls that will have to be put into place, the cheaper procedures will be kept and the more expensive ones, like some highly costly cancer treatments, will be limited. They do this in England and in other parts of the EU where overall accountability falls on the patent through price and frequency controls. A known fact is Kidney Dialyses, and the age of the patient in England. They don’t give Dialyses to people in their late 60’s or 70’s. The same goes for the Netherlands where they can legally euthanize a patent who can not recover from certain problems and they are of an advanced age.
ALSO one last thing, the biggest problem with Medicare outside of having the monies pay for Medicaid is the fact that at that magic age, you have to take it as a primary insurance. If you can afford say BCBS as a primary instead, why not have BCBS as a primary?
OH and one last thing, Obama, the second coming of Christ guy has some ad out saying that McCain will completely eliminate all access to contraceptives to the public. Amazing the BS starts like this propaganda. Well this is one thing that many insurance companies pay for and so does Medicaid. I didn’t look into this yet but I would take a wild guess that McCain may want to put some controls on Medicaid payouts and get some more accountability into the system, not haul sales of any thing like this. I got to hand it to him about that part but since the Keating Five stuff, he has been a little more consistent on finance accountability issues.
