Health Care Reform
Mar 5th, 2010 by The Outsider
What is it about health-care reform that needs reform? Does the services that the doctors, nurses and others in the medical profession provide, need reform? They are not perfect but it isn’t the medical professionals that need reform. Is it the technology that needs reform? No, we have the best technology in the world.
Is it the insurance providers that need reform? Are they honoring the contracts that we sign? In most cases they are or they will be sued. The same with doctors not doing their best. Doctors are sued more often than the insurance companies simply because the lawyers can win more easily and the doctors don’t have the deep pockets that the insurance companies have. The insurance companies and can hire the best lawyers in the business. What can be reformed about these companies when they have lawyers to protect them? Kind of like sluff-off union workers that are protected by their unions, eh?
So where do we need reform? Ah yes, the cost! No one can disagree with the high cost of insurance in the medical coverage business. This is where we need reform the most but we can’t do that unless we know why the cause. In an earlier article, I expressed the idea that we always complain about the effects we feel but very seldom ever speak about the cause. It’s like taking an aspirin for pain without addressing the cause of the pain. This certainly applies to health-care costs. How about lawsuits against the doctors and hospitals? What about all the regulations that doctors and hospitals must comply with and all the red tape and paperwork that has to be filled out? What about all the taxes involved that has to be paid on all the medical care products that helps to increase the cost of care? What about the irresponsible people that fill the emergency rooms looking for free health-care? What about the Food and Drug administration telling us and the drug industry what they can deliver and what they can’t, raising costs again. What about the lack of competition of insurance companies in certain areas of the state and country that is regulated by the government?
The only real reasons for higher costs is the obstruction by the government into the medical profession. Medicare is going broke and so is medicaid, both government controlled and forced on the private medical care providers. Almost everything that is broke in our society is caused by excessive size, over-control and high taxation by our government. If anything needs reform, it is our government! How can it be not so when our government is almost as large as the private sector? All prosperity comes from the citizens in the private sector, not the government. We need government but they also need us even more-so. What does the government believe? They believe we need them and that they are the solution to all societal ills. Don’t look to the government to solve anything, let alone to look at themselves as the problem with high health-care costs. Is this about health-care or is it about getting more votes and getting these votes forever? You be the judge.