I'll agree about workplaces offering suck insuurance, but that would change if the upper echelon quit getting salaries that would feed a third-world country for a year. Instead of reducing their income from $100 million to $25 million, they take it away from their employees.
As for health insurance -- yes, it's overpriced and rather selective. However, a large part of said overpricing can be at the feet of those who commit insurance fraud (and ye gads, there are a lot of 'em) and those who go to the ER every third time they sneeze. Much of the rest is greed on the part of doctors/hospitals/medical communities, but as a wise woman once pointed out, doctors etc. are in it to make a living. You probably hate working paycheck to paycheck; why wouldn't they? Plus, I think it takes something like 7 or 8 years to pay off med school and the student loans most med students have.
Are there flaws? Yes.
Do changes need to be made? Definitely.
Will becoming a Socialist economy to make those changes and correct the flaws actually solve anything? Not in a million years.
The reason: once health care is socialized, everything else is fair game for the same reasons -- and I for one don't want the government telling me what I can do, when I can do it, and who I can do it with.
And that is my $0.07 (rate of inflation) on the subject.
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Date: 2009-08-18 03:41 am (UTC)As for health insurance -- yes, it's overpriced and rather selective. However, a large part of said overpricing can be at the feet of those who commit insurance fraud (and ye gads, there are a lot of 'em) and those who go to the ER every third time they sneeze. Much of the rest is greed on the part of doctors/hospitals/medical communities, but as a wise woman once pointed out, doctors etc. are in it to make a living. You probably hate working paycheck to paycheck; why wouldn't they? Plus, I think it takes something like 7 or 8 years to pay off med school and the student loans most med students have.
Are there flaws? Yes.
Do changes need to be made? Definitely.
Will becoming a Socialist economy to make those changes and correct the flaws actually solve anything? Not in a million years.
The reason: once health care is socialized, everything else is fair game for the same reasons -- and I for one don't want the government telling me what I can do, when I can do it, and who I can do it with.
And that is my $0.07 (rate of inflation) on the subject.