In the Heretic Nation, John Edwards is on the "Most Wanted" List by the HBI.
This is because of his activities in recent years. Since the beginning of his law career, John Edwards has been what is colloquially known as an "Ambulance Chaser," or a man who specialized in Medical Malpractice Lawsuits.
Now, let it be known, that lawsuits against doctors cost massive amounts of money to the Medical Insurance Company. And, no matter who wins, the Insurance Company is responsible for paying for the costs of the Client's Legal Fees. Therefore, every time there is a medical lawsuit, the insurance companies have to shell out large amounts of money, forcing them to increase their premiums, which forces doctors to charge more for coverage, and thus to short change more people out of healthcare.
Also, on another prong of the assault, Illegal Immigrants, for fear of being discovered, and wait until they are in absolute desperation, go to the ER, and cost massive amounts of money from the citizens, raising their taxes.
So, that is the situation we find ourselves in when we come to the crockumentary travesty, SiCKO.
In the movie, Michael Moore paints this picture of a paradise in which the nations of Europe and the Americas have this great, free health care system, which has no flaws whatsoever.
Well, I have to call Shame on this, and while I agree that there needs to be some changes in the way that our Health care system is run, there are better ways to do so.
Now, first of all, lets look at the problems of Nationalized Healthcare.
First: People who are under this system have to wait several months to get into a doctor's office, leading to many people dieing from diseases they could have survived if they could have gotten it diagnosed
Second: You MUST go to a Government Approved doctor and gain a recommendation to a specialist, then wait a few more months to go see said specialist
Third: X-Ray Machines/MRI Machines take about five months to be able to get into the machines, whereas people can get into an MRI by the end of the day, and an X-Ray within an hour
Fourth: Those who set up private clinics in Europe or Canada get tossed into jail
Fifth: Nations with Socialized Healthcare are one of the largest sources of "Medical Tourism" to the United States, due to the ease of access into the use of our medical facilities
I have an alternate plan, or rather Neal Boortz has an alternate plan. This is a system of lawsuits known as Loser Pays, in which the loser in any case will have to pay the costs of any and all persons within the case.
This will do many things.
First: It will reduce the amount of cases that the courts have to here
Second: It will bring down the costs of health care, as even cases that never make it to court still increase the amount that a doctor has to pay for his Malpractice Insurance
This is a much better system, and one we should follow.
Friday, September 7, 2007
The Crime of Nationalised Healthcare
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Any idiot with eyes can tell we need to change out health care system. And yes, you did point out some flaws in the universal health care system. But did you even think to mention the benefits, so that readers of your blog can from an opinion for themselves? Let's take a look at what can be gained by universal health care.
1st off. Health care is a basic human right. It just is. Why should the wealthy be more entitled to health care than the poor? The answer? They're not.
The current US system is already funded 64% by tax money with the remaining 36% split between private and employer spending. A universal healthcare system would merely replace private/employer spending with tax revenues. Total spending would go down for individuals and employers
A single payer system could save $286 billion a year in overhead and paperwork. Administrative costs in the US health care system are estimated to be substantially higher than in other countries and than in the public sector in the US: one estimate put the total administrative costs at 24 percent of US health care spending
Universal health care would provide for uninsured adults who may forgo treatment needed for chronic health conditions
America spends a far higher percentage of GDP on health care than any other country, and has worse ratings on a variety of subjects such as quality of care, efficiency of care, access to care, safe care, equity, right care and wait times according to the commonwealth fund. New Zealand, which spends one third per capita what the US spends on health care beats the US on every marker of efficiency and care. Although not definitive, this does lend credence to the idea that universal health care is more efficient than our for profit health care system as the US was inferior to Germany, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and to a lesser degree Canada in nearly all health care quality issues. This despite the fact that the US system costs 2-3x more per capita than the systems in these other countries.
And the list goes on. Also, I'm findng hard to really believe you since you didn't post any statistics, etc.
I agree that universal health care isn't perfect. But what we have in place now is far from perfect. Compromise?
Peace out, yo.
No argument on the basic human right part, but Universal Healthcare is not the way to do it. In fact, it causes just a different set of problems. There is a reason that the wealthy in a universal Healthcare System go elsewhere for their healthcare needs.
At least under my system, we can guarantee that people will get service, as opposed to Europe and Canada, as the largest drain on healthcare IS from the Tort Cases that are flooding the courts.
Universal Healthcare is not the answer, it never will be the answer, and we need to look at something that doesn't fail.
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