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Without a doubt, President Obama & Co., including Senator Edward Kennedy, intend to do elective surgery on our health care system and to force national health insurance upon us. This despite the fact that if our health coverage is nationalized, the Canadians will no longer have the benefit of the American health care they have become accustomed to. Why? Because we will soon be in the same boat they are in now; very long waits—up to three years and more for elective surgery and other elective procedures.
Why? How many physicians worth their salt elect to be employed by the U.S. government, if they can help it? The number is minuscule. Actually the number of competent physicians is shrinking daily as it is. That is due in part to government meddling in health care.
The same is true for nurses. It has gotten so bad that we are scouring the earth for nurses. Notice I did not say competent nurses. We will accept a certified—yip; usually they are still requiring that—nurses as long as they are breathing and not so wide that they cannot navigate hospital hallways. (Oh yes, I have seen some in the Philippines that might not be able to pass that test.)
It’s bad enough that we can no longer get enough American nurses, but, while we are getting nurses from other, usually very poor countries, we are taking nurses those countries can ill afford to lose. We are thereby turning America’s problem into a problem for those other countries; countries that cannot afford to put up a diplomatic fight with the American government to keep their nurses; nurses whom they desperately need.
We must stop this socialization of the American economy
There are two things a sensible person can do between now and the next election. One, is pray Obama & Co. don’t succeed in their quest to drive the last nail in the coffin of the best large health care system in the world; and, two, work to unseat all politicians who agree with Obama & Co.’s push to create a socialist system of government in the U.S. A socialist system of government and ruining our health care system will certainly have an adverse affect on your and my pursuit of happiness.
Here’s what Sandy wrote in her post:
Single payer visions
We’re beginning to learn what Senator Edward Kennedy’s secret meetings with key health insurance industry stakeholders have been creating in their vision for universal health coverage.
If you want to keep your health care separate from your job, you will no longer have that choice, according to reports of the plan’s 170-page draft. Employers would be required to provide health care to employees or be penalized. Step #1 to a single-payer government managed national health plan.
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No matter what the decision on healthcare, its time to start looking at real solutions that are affordable and keep the patients best interest in mind when providing the proper healthcare.
HIFU,
I agree with what I gather is the thrust of your comment; that it is high time we looked at providing better, more affordable health care that puts the interests of the patient and the patient’s family ahead of all other considerations. My caveat about the patient’s family is based on my belief that the patient should not unreasonably be kept alive at the expense of the economic survivability of the family.
In the quest to provide better, more affordable health care, I believe a high priority should be given to taking the middleman (the employee leasing company in this case) out of the health care facility (usually a hospital) staffing picture. Having the staff be employed directly by the health care facility will make that facility more responsive to and more responsible for the health care needs of the patient. And by taking the middleman out of the picture, it will eliminate a profit center and, thus, cut the cost of patient care.