If they can do it everywhere else, why can't we do it here?

[RC]

After all the readily available information about the reality of our so called health care in this country, people still doe not get it.

For a growing number of too many of us, we have already been priced out of the market for Mom's care. She will die at home because neither she nor her care givers can afford the needed hospital stay and treatments.

For too many of us, they are telling parents of desperately ill children that any but the basics of treatment will be too expensive.

Our system is broken. A few are getting rich off the misery of others. Health insurance companies are committing fraud against their customers to pad out the bottom line as an excuse to keep the upper management and sales force in the lifestyles they have become accustom to. A life style so high that it allows them to even buy our Congress at 1.3 million dollars a day, using radio/TV ads, lobbying and even outright bribes, so they can continue doing what they are now doing.

All using our premium dollars. Dollars that should be going instead toward lower premiums and better managed claims adjustments.

People, nay, whole families, have their livelihoods endangered by the self serving greed of the current Health Insurance industry.

No other country in the world has anything close to the broken system we have here. The rest of the civilized world, without exception, has some form of universal health care. If they can do it everywhere else, why can't we do it here?

[enlightenment]

1. Because the will does not exist in our legislative body.

And the will to force them to do it doesn't exist in the body politic.

[DefenseLawyer]

2. It might be because the current racket is quite profitable

Just a wild guess.

[Brigid]

3. I am so sorry to hear about your mom.

Yet another perfect example of why our system is *broken* and needs attention now! ;grr:

[izquierdista]

4. Too many suckers

Americans are an easily conned bunch. (Well, maybe not those from Missouri.) The fall for all sorts of advertising and they fall for the fraud that is known as "health insurance". It's one of the oldest cons around, the one where the smooth talker comes to town, sells everyone in town some peace of mind and some security, and then evaporates before he has to pay a nickel to back it up.

People need to start dropping their health insurance companies and socking that money away in their own accounts. Then they could pay for a quick trip to Mexico, where all drug prices are set very low by the government and almost all are available without prescription. If there was an organized boycott of health insurance, and an organized outsourcing movement for medical services, it could break the back of the industry that sucks up twice its fair share of the GNP.