What would you consider a viable, cost effective health care plan?
No reasonable person wants to deny health care to anyone in need. However, it appears to me that the government is assuming that every single man, woman & child is in dire need of these services.
Since medical care is imperative for those in need, why won’t the government trash all unnecessary pork from the budget and use these funds as their 1st priority.
The majority of the U.S. population are healthy. I raised four children who always received their shots, were treated for a broken bone from falling from a tree or maybe a sore throat, etc. None of my children, myself or my husband ever had to be hospitalized. The same is true for all of the families I have known all these years. Therefore, I believe, this should be considered.
This way there will not be rationing, long waits for appointments, lower insurance costs for the healthy and those with serious and continuing medical needs can be taken care of through good government programs.
Health care for children is necessary but why don’t they take into consideration the fact that children need fruits, vegetables and balanced meals, good hygiene, more physical activity by at least mandating it in schools again. However, the price of fruits, vegetables, milk, bread, cereal and other proteins are beyond the reach of the average family. These costs will only escalate when the carbon tax is imposed and transportation costs will be passed on to the consumer. We keep hearing about the growing obese children and population but their main diet is composed of high carb and junk food.
People with AIDS, MS, Hepatitis, Sickle Cell Anemia, Diabetes must have help and all deserve the best treatment available. Their prescription costs should be based on ability to pay. At present many life threatening diseases are not covered by local health departments and yet, we are spending billions on abortions for the whole world, billions for AIDS & other STD’s to many other countries. We need to take care of our own problems first. Compassion is great but ‘charity should begin at home’.
I’m by no means an economist but I just feel there must be a better way. In my view the government just doesn’t look at reality and eventually they make circumstances worse & screw it up entirely. Just like they did with S.S., Medicare & Medicaid. Now they have to redo these programs and it will end up costing us more and getting less. They spent these funds on their other pet projects for all these years and now it’s on the brink of disaster.
Just your opinion please.
For all those who answered that everyone should take care of their own: please be advised that I always did this regarding insurance and in every other respect.
However, the government is going to take this over no matter how adament you are so I’m just looking for a better way to spend this money they are going to take from us anyway!
Sarcasm is not an opinion, THX
Define "health care plan"
There are 2 separate and in some cases competing issues here.
1) The price of health care. Government regulation, the cost of education, the cost of LIVING have raised the price of CARE (that is, what a doctor charges) – but here is the bigger problem…
Most markets in the country are consumer driven. That is, providers (of whatever) will charge what the market will bear (in other words, what consumers will pay) – Health care is no different… but here is the catch. YOU are not the consumer of health care… The INSURANCE industry is (teamed with the federal government)! THEY decide the price of care.
If you are simply talking about coverage, well… consider that only 15% of the populations does NOT have health insurance. And of those, the government tells us that 1/3 CAN AFFORD IT, but chose not to carry it.
The COST of health CARE (not coverage) needs to be addressed. But, just like every other consumer industry, the government is NOT the answer…
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