njlauren
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One of the big problems with our health care system is people don't even understand the issues with it, or the problems with it, and they are led by morons like Faux News into believing the problem is that the 'marketplace' is not allowed to solve the issues. So we hear, for example, that the cost of health care is because people have health insurance, so they run to the doctor for everything, they are getting 'free ice cream' and that is why it is expensive, and that in many cases is patentily untrue. We are told if we got rid of government regulation, that health care insurance companies would be popping up and competing, which is crap (yeah, you would get fly by night insurance companies popping up and dying, that collect premiums but don't pay)........
We hear how our health care is the best in the world, yet stats don't bare that out. Sure, you can get advanced, state of the art treatments (if you are rich enough or your insurance is good enough), yet we have stats on infant mortality, preventable diseases and the like, that are some of the worst in the western world.
The other problem is that the medical industry is for profit, with all that entails. So doctors are pressured via perks and other things into prescribing expensive, state of the art medicines, when generics would do just as well. Pharm companies are allowed to advertise their ware to consumers, that make it seem like they are miracle drugs, which influences people to go to their doctor and demand some later thing they saw on tv.....rather than making rational decisions. People go to a hospital with a sprained ankle, and they run an MRI, not that they need one, but the hospital needs to pay for the MRi and its upkeep.....and so forth.
Then we come to health insurers, which despite the bleating of the GOP, are making tons of money (sorry, but the head of United healthcare made 100 million a couple of years ago.....)....it is a mess. The pool of insured is fragmented, it is just a mess that isn't working right.
The problem is that the underinsured or the uninsured are a burden on everyone, that the tea party nitwits and the GOP want to hide from. One of the reasons medicine is so expensive is that the underinsured and the non insured don't get treatment early, and something simply becomes a disaster. Kid gets strep ad doesn't get treated, gets turned into rheumatic fever and heart damage, that is expensive, and so forth. I heard some nitwit tea party jerk on NPR, talking about how someone would go from a 69 buck a month plan to having to pay 350 under obamacare; but as the host pointed out, the 69 'plan' was a discount plan, that covered very little, but the obama care plan was full coverage for office visits, hospitalization, etc....and if the 69 buck a month person ever got really sick, it is likely that others would end up paying the bill..the tea party person claimed they were the same thing, but they aren't, and one of the points of obamacare is that when people aren't fully covered, it ends up coming back to bite us al in the ass....
The real tea party/gop idea of health care is, if you are rich enough to afford it, fine, everyone else, well, screw you, the problem is their ides of health coverage ends up screwing everyone.
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