SMS wrote:
> C. E. White wrote:
>
>> The US already has a National Health Care System, a private /
>> goverment / no care system. It is the most expensive, most
>> inefficient, and most unfair in the developed world. If our current
>> National Health Care System had the best care, I suppose it could be
>> excused, but by most measures, it is a failure. We have the highest
>> death rate among babies in the developed world, we have the lowest
>> life expectancies in the developed world, and we have the highest
>> percentage of uncovered people in the developed world.
>
> Of all industrialized democracies, we spend the most money on health
> care for the poorest overall results. If there's anyone opposed to
> universal care for a valid reason, their voice is drowned out by the
> lunatics talking about "death panels" and claiming (lying) that illegal
> aliens would qualify for the government option.
>
> It probably is true that many smaller companies that now provide private
> insurance for their employees would prefer to let their employees go
> onto the government-run plan and pay whatever those costs are. In that
> case, some procedures and drugs covered by their private insurance might
> no longer be covered (though this is by no means clear since private
> insurance companies are very stingy with what drugs they put onto their
> formulary, and what procedures they'll pay for and when). I have one of
> the better HMOs and they told me that it was a one year wait for a
> colonoscopy. I pressed the issue and got it done within a few weeks.
>
> If you've ever dealt with a Medicare supplement insurer for your parents
> you would be advised to build a padded room in your house where you can
> go to periodically bang your head against the wall. 'Yes we know that
> the doctor prescribed such and such a drug which is the best treatment
> option, but we won't pay for it until he prescribes something cheaper
> and sees if it works, then if it doesn't work we'll pay for the drug he
> prescribed, assuming you're mother is still alive at that time.'
>
>> Dwight Eisenhower warned about the Military Industrial Complex. I
>> think we now need to worry about the Medical Industry / Drug Company
>> Complex.
>
> We have to get away from the system where U.S. residents subsidize the
> drug company's R&D with much higher prices than the drug companies
> charge in other first world countries.
>
>> People like Rush Limbaugh are tools of the evil rich. He does provide
>> one good piece of advice - "follow the money." In the case of the
>> health care debate this is very good advice. It seems to me Rush and
>> his ilk are either idiots or evil. Take your pick.
>
> They are both.
>

AMEN, amen.

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