Not sure if anyone will ever read this but decided to use the ad thing with google to see if there is any money in it.
I was looking today at my medical insurance cost over the last 3 years. The total cost has went up almost 16%. The company paid part and my paid each rose equally and the total cost went up each year a little over 5%. Anyone who says we do not have an issue with the cost of medical insurance in the US is totally in denial. Inflation has not increased that much, and the cost of living has increased less then 3% total over the same 3 years.
Insurance is a racket and we need to have a way to over haul the system. Insurance companies are like a casino. They make bets about sickness and health, life and death. They use statics to tell them who and when to bet on. They only want to take money form healthy young people because the numbers are in there favor just like the casinos and the games you play there. I know people do not want or like some changes. If we do nothing then there will be bigger issues.
Issues like the insurance company not letting us see a doctor who they do not have an agreed on rate structure. Can anyone say price fixing? More forced healthy living actions required by our employers as being part of the group coverage.
Any of the pro insurance arguments against reform can be used against them. Smokers and drinkers having to stop just to keep the insurance. Over wait employees having to be on a diet so they can keep theirs. Government in between you and your doctor? Your insurance company already is. Deny care to the elderly because it cost to much? They already do. The only way they will do it is with Medicare helping to pay the cost. Pre-exsiting conditions will never be covered unless we pass some sort of reform. The uninsured either do not want health care or are illegal and so should get health care. Well they both already get it by going to emergency rooms for regular care because they can not go to a regular doctor.
I do not like all of the idea I have heard from this round of health care reform. The system is slowly falling apart. It would have cost a lot less to fix 15 years ago under the Clinton administration. It will cost a lot less now than it will in 15 years. If we decided not to fix it it will fix us.
Hey Jim, I agree. There seems to be a lot of scare tactics being used against health reform. I love the one: "Keep government out of Medicare." I don't think we, as a society, can afford, in every sense of the word, to do nothing.
ReplyDeleteScare tactics or just plain scarey- For example, Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Government will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people!
ReplyDeletePg 379 Sec 1191 Government creates more bureaucracy - Telehealth Advisory Committee. HC by phone.
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultations. Think Senior Citizens end of life prodding.
Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Government will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in how to die.
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Government mandates program for orders for end of life. The Government has a say in how your life ends.
Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “advanced care planning consultant” will be used frequently as patients’ health deteriorates.
PG 429 Lines 10-12 “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government to end a life!
These are just a few I find disturbing. No I don't think any government official right now would say- "we are into legislation that determines when and how people at the end of life would die" (because that would be too transparent") However, You can not read the exact legislation and not say- I will no longer be able to determine how long, and in which ways, I fight to survive a medical disease- the government will decide that. Heck- they do it know- just ask my sometime about my mother-in-law.