Cleita
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:43 PM
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The health care debate has really changed focus since a few |
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American care givers and patients realized that something was wrong with our commercial system and change was needed, and that was during the Great Depression. The way the issue has been framed by health care activists is that all people need ACCESS to health care. There is no health care for us or a different health care for them, but ACCESS to the same health care for all who need it. This means that any person who has a health problem should be able to go to a doctor or a hospital and be looked at by a professional. Money should never be a wedge between the caregiver and the patient. If testing is needed, that person needs to get it. If treatment, medication or hospitalization is needed that person needs to get it. This is what is needed.
So over the years many people, committees and institutes have looked at the problem and decided that it takes a village or the whole government to accomplish this. Well, so far so good. Recently, the government has decided to look at this but instead of bringing everyone involved in the debate to make their case, many have been invited to sit at the banquet, but others who have a different solution have been treated like pariah. It still seems like those with the cash will get the hearing but the common person who needs ACCESS will have to jump through a myriad of hoops to get the life saving care they need if they get it at all.
So let's go back to square one. All who need health care should have ACCESS to health care. There should be no commercial middle men in there selling product that siphons health care dollars to Wall Street. Everyone should contribute and everyone should receive when they need it. We don't need health care reform. Health care practitioners actually deliver the best health care they can under the circumstances. We don't need insurance reform. They already know that they are greedy pigs and we should really be regulating the ass out of them. We need a system like Medicare that everyone can participate in both in paying for it and it receiving care.
The issue is health care ACCESS for all, not how it is going to be delivered or paid for because when you speak of access for all those problems, it boil down to the best way of delivering it and paying for it, not which special interests are going to profit from it.
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