My thoughts in regard to U.S. Health Insurance:
To assure all citizens have access to reasonably priced and effective health care we must consider a government-funded health care system, which would be similar to Canada and Western European countries OR
To allow health insurance to be sold across state lines; perhaps even allow all health insurance premiums to be deductible; and allow for international (not just Canadian companies) competition for prescription drugs.
For sure "nothing is likely to change though if government employees/officials have unlimited lifetime health benefits while the taxpayers don't." They don't have to suffer to get decent health care, so how can they possibly understand what uninsured taxpayers deal with?
Anybody have any other thoughts?
Good point, and one that hasn't been previously brought up. I agree, but don't really know what to do to change it.
Good points Watching. I think a mix of private and national health care might work out well too. And welcome back!
Write letters to your local reps, your governor, your senator, and to congress about changing our health care system. The more attention that more people bring to it may eventually bring about a change.
No, Americans will never allow that, they hate Hilary Clinton too much to even put the topic of health care reform on the table again, and it's been what, fourteen more years now. Morons.If everyone received 'medicare' insurance, including the high and mighty political types, then we could afford to cover everyone.
I've found young people who have money, won't spend it on health insurance, while we as adults, not seniors yet, paid 0 a month for Bluecross, with limited coverage, at that!
Somehow, health insurance needs to be an umbrela, so everyone is covered and everyone needs to contribute.
sarah
I totally agree that some sort of national health is absolutely necessary. It doesn't look like it will happen, in my lifetime anyway, because the insurance companies are so powerful and fight it with a vengeance.
I remember when my husband was very very sick back in the '90s and I was so hopeful when the Clintons proposed their health care plan. It was probably not all that radical, but the insurance companies ran all those ads and scared everyone.
I am still hopeful that in '08 we'll elect a President who'll give it another try...
How does everyone propose paying for all of the illegals in this country who show up at emergency rooms? Just wondering what the consensus is.It isn't just illegals that show up at ER's that we have to figure out how to pay for. People that have no health insurance often use the ER as their doc office because they know they can just not pay the bill.
I have no idea how to pay for situations like that. The best thing I can say is that many hospitals have grants and aid to help you pay for a bill that you can not.