Answer for: Would you pay extra taxes to help put a good health care system into place?
#3 NO! Has higher taxes helped any system?
by teej 6 months ago
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Higher taxes is not the answer. Why continue this silliness of punishing productivity when there are so many more feasible and valid methods to improve any system we have. We need to remove the over regulation and bureaucracy that are strangling the supply side of this economic equation.
Higher taxes will not improve the health care system and pushing a socialized system that fails the world around based on the assumption that it sounds fair is ridiculous.
We need competition between providers and developers of pharmaceuticals and medical products. A socialized system will staganate the best system in the world. If you have no clue as to what socialized medicine is then for the next four years go only to the following places for your health care:
Prison hospital. Indian Reservation hospital. Inner City County hospital. Miliatary hospital. Veterans' Affairs hospital.
All of these systems are a take it or leave it system where the patient is subordinate to the providing institution. No second opinions. No decision on treatment times. No decision on treatment options. No recourse if the condition prevails or worsens.
How many veterans have the government Tri-Care insurance? Ask one of them about coverage and options on care. Ask one of them about losing coverage from the system that promised them and their families care, simply because they obtain additional coverage on their own.
Instead of bitching about rich doctors and "big" pharmaceutical companies, stop voting for A-holes who benefit from your misery by pretending to care. They are the ones who put all the restrictions on the free market so that providers cannot offer options on your treatment and the costs associated with it.
Health care providers of all disciplines should be allowed to work as long as they stay within the scope and parameters of their training. They should be able to compete for consumer dollars just like any other business without fear of abusive and discriminatory legislation.
Not one communist sympathizer I've ever met can explain who an Insurance scam presented by Hillary/Kaiser will reduce the waiting periods for appointments, end the waiting period in the waiting room, the waiting period in the examination rooms and then have the provider spend adequate time with you in a respectful and dignified manner. This is another kickback scheme that will subsidize an insurance company that is bankrolling candidates that will force the public to buy their product all in the name of fairness.
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Interesting views & well said
I would like people to compare how we take care of our bodies compared to how we take care of our automobiles. We accept treatment for our bodies and the bodies of our loved ones that we would never accept for our cars.
With our cars we can decide between returning to the dealer or going to an independent shop for repairs and upgrades. We will usually not accept over charges and damages inflicted as part of the stay in the garage or pay extra for storage, parts and labor if damage is the fault of the garage.
However if our grandmother has to stay in the hospital longer due to complications with a med error or noscomial infection due to the utilization of lessor trained personnel, we willing pay for the extended stay and the additional treatments. Our choices are pretty limited at that point. By the time we have to return to the dealer it's too late. :)
As long as bad medicine is lucrative, it will continue.
Other problems are associated with overhead costs and reimbursement regulations. In NC if a provider discovers a problem during a routine 5 or 15 minute slot focused examination, they have to reschedule. The coding system the World Health Organization implemented to make billing simpler has only complicated the whole system. We are smart enough to change computers so they work in windows and words like our brains but do just the opposite with our medical charting by requiring the use of number letter code combinations. Not only do providers have to remember detailed anatomy and physiology, a myriad of rhyming medications and their effects on pathophysiology but also codes that would be better off left to R2D2. This is one of the reasons that providers seem abrupt and impersonal during their visits.
Just a few days ago, one of my friend's daughter had a very severe and complicated delivery. She became preeclamptic which stressed the fetus, who reacted by kicking and rupturing the placenta. The OB/GYN surgeon knows he may have to make decision in these types of cases of which patient to save but during the 26 minutes from the time this lady was brought through the emergency room doors until the baby was successfully delivered via Ceserean the health care team found a way to save both of them. This happened the night of my buddy's 62nd birthday so it was quite a present after all worry. My point is that the people behind the masks who performed this miraculous work will not get credit for it later if during a subsequent operation the results are not as fortunate. They will be forced to prove the validity of their actions at every step and still face the possibililty of condemnation at the hands of jurors selected for their ignorance and bias.
Professional athletes who make far more money and performed far less preparatory work never have to face that sort of stress for blowing the big game. As Cleveland fans have learned to accept over the past few decades, "There's always next year".
When it comes to our bodies though, there is not always a next year or maybe even a next day.