Obama Health Care
Posted 45 weeks 2 days ago byAfter watching the last debate between Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr. and Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton. I noticed many holes in Senator Obama’s health care reform proposition. Senator Obama wants to make sure that all children are able to receive health care with his plan. This is a very noble act. The problem is that the head of household is the one that is trying to keep the family out of poverty. If the head of household does not have health care coverage this will leave a large debt to the families if their head of household becomes ill or injured.
The American public needs universal health care. This type of insurance is used in many countries and is successful. If Senator Obama feels that the American public is willing to make change then why not do it the right way and have health care for every American Citizen? This includes every politician and government official. We would all have the same insurance and the same coverage. No special privileges for anyone.
The Senator knows this is the only way to clean the corruption in the health care industry. When the politicians have the same health care as the rest of the country they will make it a priority to keep things on the up and up.
If the government put a flat percent health care tax on our income the amount for the poor would be affordable.
Other governments have been able to make a system like this work without too many problems. We as a leader in the world should not be shown up by other countries who are doing exactly what we should be doing here in our own country.
The first step is to change medicare for the elderly. Then model that for the rest of the politicians. Once that is up and running then we change our country for the better.
There is nothing wrong with getting Americans health care. And universal coverage will end the political corruption in this serious venue.
If this Senator is for change like he says he is, then he would fix the holes in his proposed health care package.
Plus prescriptions for us and our elderly should not cost a dime. The drug companies make plenty of money and spend enough money on our politicians.
Thoughts
Universal Healthcare
Submitted on February 26th, 2008 by ansuyoYou need to look again, because Universal Healthcare is not as successful as you would like to believe. It is inherently flawed. We need to deal with abuses of the current system and then allow our Capitalist system and competition free reign to help our health care system.
Think of this
Submitted on February 25th, 2008 by dbassdThe amount of time and effort that is spent billing for all the medical practices and procedures is incalculable. If we spent all that money and manhours on health care instead of billing, we would be way ahead of the game. . .
It is obscene that a person works all their life to buy a future, and then in the last days, have a horrific illness devastate them physically, and financially, in this, the greatest, most power, and richest country in the world.
US citizens should be taken care of first and foremost, by the Government, In every way, then the rest of the world can benefit from our generosity. I see no flaw with that plan. . .
Prevention first!
One of the problems...
Submitted on February 25th, 2008 by KansasGirlwith saying that mandated healthcare reforms will work in the United States simply because they have in other countries is that we haven't had a comprehensive system in place . . . ever. Other countries did it right from the outset, and don't get me wrong, I wish we had. But moving from a seriously flawed and optional system straight into a completely mandatory and hopefully better one doesn't take into account several factors.
First of all, there's a learning curve for the American public. Just because someone tells you the new system is better, there's going to be huge backlash if you're not given time to recognize that on your own - particularly considering the ideological divide on the issue. By making the new system optional, at least at first, we let people see the benefits for themselves. If it's as good as we say it is (and it will be), people will opt in on their own. We're not taking healthcare away from people, we're just not forcing a huge change down their throats if they're not ready.
Second, the new system is going to have its problems - it's new. We've been working off a different model for so long that it's going to take a while to get this one right. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying for profit. That means that the first round of people are guinea pigs, and while I think these guinea pigs will still be better off than those who opt out, and much better off than those under the current system, we owe it to people to let the kinks get worked out first.
The main "kink" that Obama sees in an immediately mandatory system is that it's not going to be low-cost enough right out of the gate to allow the lowest income households to feasibly afford it. That's something that will get drastically better with time, but it's still an issue for the forseeable future.