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Sinergy -> RE: Universal Healthcare Now! (9/20/2006 4:31:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: toservez
I work in the medical field and there is not one problem that is driving the costs up. The biggest problem is everyone from the medical field, lawyers and insurance companies have zero incentive to control costs and all of us get rich in the process. Medical people get sued, insurance company settles, raises rates to medical people who pass it on to the customer. Everyone gets richer as the percentage of the increase revenue is pocketed. Hospitals who cry poor are only poor because everyone is paid an obnoxious amount of money. We have secretaries at our hospital making more then a 100k but they have been there a long time and they work for an important doctor type stuff. We have first year residinets debating whether to buy or rent a 500k condo. Hell, I am overpaid. What we do others cannot due and/or do not understand so it becomes sacred and free market principals do not hold up.
If you want to try to fix the system within, people actually have to vote in severe tort reforms and get some regulations on insurance companies and hospitals. Even then good luck.
I am all for universal healthcare personally. I have to laugh or cry depending on my mood when people bring up the subject who are against it. Often these are the same people who wrap themselves up in the American flag and blindly talk how much better America is compared to all other countries and then this subject comes up and all of a sudden the greatest country in the history of the world is not capable of desiginng a system that would work and point to the problems but never the good things about other "inferior" countries who have universal healthcare. If we are so much better how come we cannot do better in this? It is a contradiction that always confuses me. Are we a can due or can't do country?
Hello A/all,
I suspect a major problem with the idea of Universal Healthcare has little or nothing to do with HMOs. Pharma companies and large medical providers who keep major lobbying groups in Washington would rather not be forced to negotiate with the US Government over costs for procedures and medicines because this might cut in to their profit margin.
As far as PPOs and HMOs are concerned, I love mine. My union negotiates every contract and the shipping companies have learned that the union will refuse to go along with any attempt to cut back on our level of healthcare. I had a lovely chiropractic visit with a deep tissue massage yesterday, paid for by the shipping companies. Thank you, Harry Bridges, for writing our union by-laws to be 100% democratic (1 rank and file member, 1 vote) in nature, with term limits, and the only union representatives allowed in the door are elected from the rank and file.
Just me, etc.
Sinergy
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