Reply #38: This is why I was most for Hillary's plan [View All]

[busymom]

During the primaries, she said that she would mandate that everyone be covered.. Unless there is shared risk and those who are younger and healthier are not paying in, the system is not financially viable. You can't just start paying when you get sick...it's too late.

My personal feeling (and note that I am not president of the united states and never will be) is that there should be a highly regulated cooperation between govt. and private industry which mandates coverage for all basic, necessary and life-threatening conditions. No one should go without coverage for treatment for injuries, cancer and annual exams...No one should be "fucked" by the government or private industry.

This is not a black and white issue and I think that coming up with an adequate answer involves more than just jumping on to a single answer.

My husband worked as a physician in the UK and Germany before we came here. In the UK, where there is socialized medicine, he went to a code only to discover that there were no more of a certain drug. The patient died as a direct result and he called it "government induced population control". The money wasn't there...it became crap care for all. One of my best friends lives in the UK and her little girl has had health problems since birth due to bladder infections. The GP there didn't want to sent her to a specialist, order tests or take further action. She sought out 4 DIFFERENT doctors...with no different result. When she visited here, we got her in to see a friend who is a pediatric urologist and he wrote a letter...which she then took back with her.

She finally got in for a scan...and has bilateral damage to her kidneys from severe reflux disease. She is 6 years old and weighs only 29 pounds....something that has been blamed on the mom. Now she is getting a full investigation, but the damage is done. Yeah socialized medicine...and care thanks to a nasty letter from an American urologist. That sucks.

My husband treated a man recently with terrible pain and a growth on his neck...who came down here from Canada...because the waiting time was so long in Canada. The man required immediate surgery.

We have to take the time to look at all of the systems, what works and what doesn't work and then come up with a system where we can hold onto the US quality and health care ingenuity, but also cover everyone.