Comments on Roberts Roost: Alan's Soapbox - The "Health Care" Racket

Sheria's link got broken. Here it is again. ...

2009-08-18T18:41:58.076-04:00

Sheria's link got broken. Here it is again. http://www.newsobserver.com/2662/story/1652253.html

It points out how expensive "health care" insurance is. I've seen it from the business side as well as from the policy holders side. I watched the insurance fight to not pay as my mom died of cancer caused by government defence test (which we were 'compensated' for). I've seen (and been employeed by) a small business that was trying to take care of it's employees and couldn'g because the costs kept going up. I understand the accesability issue. It informes the choices we make on a daily basis. BUT... fixing it in the ways proposed doesn't fix health care. It doesn't adress health, or care... just money, and the payers will not come out the winners. Sucks to be me, and you...

Nancy - Big Business is really afraid of universal...

2009-08-18T16:47:51.880-04:00

Nancy - Big Business is really afraid of universal health care. They have been really effective in spreading that fear. Glad to see you back in the comments. Missed you.

Sheria, with the current system access is key. I hope we can make it better. That would be a slight improvement, but even with that we will be having this conversation in 10 years (or less, the cycle of failure is getting shorter as the systems collaps). I guess my real frusteration is we are not talking about ways to make people healthier, or taking better care of our communities. We are only pushing for the big players to accept a little less payoff so more people have slightly better access. That isn't a fix, it is a bandaid, and it won't stick for long.

2009-08-18T16:19:57.152-04:00

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Okay, I have to learn to proofread my comments. I ...

2009-08-18T16:18:50.974-04:00

Okay, I have to learn to proofread my comments. I never learned to type.

You add an interestin piece to the health care deb...

2009-08-18T16:17:04.320-04:00

You add an interestin piece to the health care debate. I agree with you sopmewhat, the discussion has not centered on health or care. However, I think that the link to access is a direct reflection on health and care. I would like to see a system that was totally based on health and care but I don't think that as a whole America is ready to make such a change. I think that to focus on health and care would mean a system that was not based on your ability to pay but on provision of preventive care to all and treatment as needed to the ill. I supect that most people would label such a system as socialist; I just call it fair.

So while I agree with your basic premise, I do think that the current debate in terms of insurance and access is a valid one given our love of free market enterprise and our fear of socialism. If insurance is required to access health care, then the costs of that insurance must be afordable for all. Currently, that's not even close to accurate. A story about the access to health care crisis in my home state of NC sums it up well: http://www.newsobserver.com/2662/story/1652253.html

I won't touch this with a ten foot pole. :-) ...

2009-08-18T12:15:23.964-04:00

I won't touch this with a ten foot pole. :-) I very recently got trampled under virtual foot when I extolled the positive points of our Cdn health care system, so I've decided that politics/health care, like religion, is best left off the blog page. :-)

But I did want to stop and say hello -- I'm anxious to find more of your recent posts. I haven't been hiding...for a while, Blotanical wasn't picking up my blog, etc. But anyway.........HELLO! I hope your summer is going well.