Topic: Health Care
Health Care, Is it really the issue Questions concerning why so much concern over a new health care program is necessary. Why add additional cost to current insuranceby Larry G. McMillan
(centrist conservative libertarian)
Monday, September 7, 2009
When I was in high school I used to be interested in magic. I studied the greats like Houdini, Thurston, and others. The main thing I l learned was to distract people and to never let the right hand know what the left hand was doing.
The great magicians are very adapt in this maneuver. It is the only way magic can work. So what is my point? What is the left hand of the administration doing? There is way too much hype about the New Health Care Program for me to believe there isn't something adrift elsewhere.
What is going on outside of all this discussion about health care that we are not seeing? I cannot believe this is for not. I must assume that there is something that the administration is doing that they don't want others to see. It is hard to understand why things have been so bad with Medicare that they want to abandon it and not use all this time and effort to repair the Medicare system.
That is another point if they have made such a mess of Medicare, where and who are they going to put in charge of this new health care program to make it better. Now if they have someone who holds that much wisdom, why isn't he or she being put in charge of Medicare and other medical programs to make them better and save all this time and energy to make something good out of something we already have.
This brings up another point. I just read that they are considering adding to our cost of insurance by adding a surcharge to current health insurance companies to help pay for this monstrosity. It always makes me wonder where some people get their ideas from. If people can't afford medical insurance, and this is the reason we need this new health care system, how can the problem be resolved by adding more cost to the very thing they claim they want to fix?
It reminds me of a book that I saw on Guam when I was stationed there. The title was, "Guam is a four letter word" and inside it had many saying such as this: "We don't carry size 28 because we can't keep them in stock." That is the mental attitude I see coming from Washington these days. You can't afford insurance so we will make it harder to get by increasing the cost to you. What kind of logic is this?
What kind of intelligence does it take to know if something is too expensive, the cost must be lowered, not raised, to make it more affordable. If the insurance companies have to pay for this health care program then they in turn will put the cost on the policyholders. They will not reduce the cost of insurance if additional cost are added to what it is costing them to do business already.
I thought this all came about because so many don't have insurance to start with. Now if they don't have insurance, then obviously they will not be paying the additional cost that the insurance companies will be adding to the policy. The people who don't need this health care system and have insurance, the average American, will take on the load as always.
Back to the original question, why don't they just reform Medicare and make it what it should be and not try to throw the baby out with the bath water. I still hold to the fact that all this health care business is a cover for something else. Something they don't want us to know about. Anyone have any ideas?
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