Posted by NCWayne on July 23, 2009 at 07:31:00 from (98.21.228.167):
I read all the posts concerning this mess and some of the reply make me wonder if anyone out there really has a clue how messed up this proposed government run program would be....if not from the start then a few years down the road when the corruption, cost over runs, etc, etc all had time to set in and take hold and our taxes rose to cover all of it. Then take in the ways I've heard it would cause increases to the already overpriced fees charged by the private healthcare companies already and we're all going to need Uncle Sam to pay our way...or our funeral costs from working ourselves to death trying to pay for everyone else on top of just ourselves.
Now let's take a minute and look at some government run healthcare systems already in place. First I'll ask how many of you have been in the military? How many have ever had the need to use the VA? How many of you have seen how screwed up things are trying to go through the VA? Now remember, this is supposed to be government run medical care at it's finest to take care of our national heros. True sometimes things will go alright but all in all I've heard more horror stories about waits for this and that, things not covered, etc etc etc, than I've heard glowing comments about how great it was. Now remember this is healthcare for people that have served this country, not just the average joe off the street.
The back up a step and look at the active duty military medical system and it's ties to the dependents. After spending just 6 years in the Navy I saw how messed up it is. You go to the clinic and wait and wait and wait and hope they see you today. If they don't get to you today then you go back tomorrow. What I always saw and was told was that dependng on whether you were dependent or active duty, low ranking or high ranking, really sick or not so sick all came into play when determining when you got seen. Once again these are the people actively serving this counrty (and their families) protecting you and me, again not just the average joe off the street. Looking back at all of that remember that these two medical programs only apply to a small percentage of the population. As messed up as they are think how messed up it's going to be for the Government to try to run a healthcare system that's supposed to handle millions more people.
Beyond that look to Europe where state run healthcare systems have been in place for years. Do a little reading and eventually you'll see and hear the same types of 'problems' I mentioned about our current government run, military related, healthcare systems. Now I can't quote statistics but I do read enough to know that trying to socialize healthcare is not the answer to our conutries problems.
You want to fix healthcare, stop frivilious medical lawsuits, stop allowing pharmacutical companies/hospitals/doctors in general/etc engage in price gouging on their products/services, stop letting money hungry 'suits' at the insurance companies make medical decisions and leave that for the trained doctors. In the end I agree we should all have access to healthcare but socializing it and having our "almighty and all knowing" government tax all of us in order to give insurance to illegal immigrants, people to lazy to work, and others of the same ilk simply isn't the answer.
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