Posted by bleauberry on July 19, 2009, at 20:01:22
In reply to Obama Admin. + Health Care, posted by garnet71 on June 7, 2009, at 20:23:57
I do believe there should be a safety net health care program for the poor. We can already pay for that.
The billions of dollars spent on the supposed stimulus package did nothing to help real people. It padded the wallets of the few at the top of the totem pole. That same money would have been much wiser spent, and did a lot more for the economy, by spending it on the small people, the real people, the average people, the ones that make this country tick. A health care program for the poor would have been a beautiful way to spend that money we didn't have. I mean, if we are going to borrow ourselves into debt deeper than the universe, we might as well do it in a way that helps the small people. Right?
Say for example a single person makes less than $20,000 a year. He/she should have free care. Someone in the $30 and up range can most likely fund their own. The threshold should increase for each family member.
The State I live in already has it. Many states do. We don't need a national program to do what states are already doing. For example in my State, a family of 3 that makes less than $35,000 doesn't have to pay a dime to see a doctor, get medicines, or go to the hospital. And they have a pretty good choice of options for treatment. Lots of freedom.
I see no sense in duplicating a service that is already being done and we are already paying taxes for. I see no sense in having to pay more out of my paycheck for something we have already paid for.
States that do not already have such a program should be made to do that. That would be my version of a national health care system. It should be funded and controlled at the State level, and be directed at only those that cannot afford health care, not directed at the entire country. Why should we pay taxes for national health care for someone who makes $100,000 a year?
All my points have been from the patient's point of view. How about the doctors. They will fare badly as well. Their workload will increase, but they will be paid less money. How many people would like that to happen at their own job. Work harder, take a cut in pay. And in addition, have some suit tell you how to treat your patients. You can't use your creativity anymore. You have to do it by the book, whatever idiot wrote the book. No more practicing medicine the way you see is best. Now you have to practice medicine the way some government officials decided you should, who know nothing about medicine, and you are going to work harder, longer, more stressful, hand tied, and your paycheck just got smaller.
Sounds like a good deal to me. Not.
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