tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22306664.post195619469274763017..comments2023-07-26T10:18:55.654-04:00Comments on The Sum of All Things According 2 Me: At What Price Healthcare?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22306664.post-73660120993044480132009-05-28T21:13:33.471-04:002009-05-28T21:13:33.471-04:00So if health insurance is a right, then why isn't ...So if health insurance is a right, then why isn't it taken out of our taxes? Instead the proposal is to tax those of us who already have taken the responsibility to get health insurance coverage in order to pay for those who do not. While the liberal spin is that it will provide for those who can't, the reality is that it will provide insurance for those who would rather spend their income on travel and such over necessities. And if you think that isn't true, poll the average middle income business. You will find people who choose to NOT pay into the insurance offered at their work to spend their money elsewhere. Here's an example. I have a student whose mother works at a ver prestigious ad firm. In fact, the girl complained because Mom wouldn't let her drive the new BMW. But when this kid came down with a flu like bug, I mentioned she should go to the doctor and the reply was "I can't, we don't have insurance." And for lots and lots of people, this isn't a situation of not having access, it's a decision of deliberately choosing to put their money elsewhere and hope that nothing bad happens. And then what happens is they end up in the ER, and those of us idiots who do the right thing and put off wild expenditures get socked with another insurance premium increase because they can't or won't pay their bills. You want to know why insurance is so high? Ask John Edwards. While there's much that can be said for personal responsibility, the lack of tort reform has created a situation where doctors overprescribe treatments to prevent the eventuality of some craven lawyer getting a case against them. This has made it where in some rural areas, there are no OB/Gyn's, there are no neurologist, there are no specialists-because they don't want some idiot wandering in the ER and then taking them to the bank. And by the way, about Canada, if their system is so great, why were they forced to pass a bill allowing private insurance AND why to so many people with gall bladder, hernia and other painful situations end up coming here rather than putting up with months or years of pain?Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22306664.post-73959765491500397832009-05-25T10:30:39.465-04:002009-05-25T10:30:39.465-04:00It's well known that the levels of poverty as well...It's well known that the levels of poverty as well as the income gap in the US is far more pronounced than other indistrialised countries. That said no system is perfect, hence it's easy to knock Canada and the UK or any other country sees healthcare as a right rather than a privilege. One thing that these systems don't produce is ordinary decent middle class tax payers going bankrupt because they got sick, the health insurance industry isn't about providing care, it's about profit which equals minimising care, i.e not paying out. Health insurance is a right, not a privilege like say, <br /><A HREF="http://www.kanetix.ca/auto-insurance" REL="nofollow">car insurance</A> .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com