What Health Care Reform Won’t & Will Do
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Aug 21, 2009 in Barack Obama
Health Care Reform Won’t
1. Use federal money for abortions.
2. Give health insurance to illegal immigrants.
3. Create “death panels.”
4. Destroy Medicare.
5. Be a “government takeover” of health care.
Health Care Reform Will
1. Stop insurance companies from discriminating against sick people (pre-existing conditions.)
2. Stop insurance companies from cutting coverage from people who get seriously sick or injured.
3. Stop insurance companies from capping payouts to those who are seriously sick or injured.
4. Stop insurance companies from raising premiums because people get seriously sick or injured.
5. Create competition for the health insurance companies by giving Americans additional choices.
6. Allow Americans to keep whatever health insurance they have now if they want to.
7. Lower overall health care costs through increased competition for health insurance companies and less wasted resources (for example less uninsured people using expensive ER services.)
8. Help save the lives of the many thousands of Americans who currently die every year due to lack of health care coverage.
9. Significantly decrease the amount of bankruptcies due to medical expenses (currently nearly one million Americans go bankrupt because of medical expenses every year and 75% of those have/had private health insurance this is directly related to points 2 through 4.)
Health Care
The other day, I received an interesting and very instructive e-mail from my brother Jeff who lives in France. He asked me to share it with the readers of my blog. I think I will share it with you also.
“HELLO, AMERICA!
“As an American who has been living in Europe for most of the last 20 years, one who has visited doctors numerous times in four different countries, whose two children were brought into this world in European hospitals (France and England), who has himself spent a week in a public British hospital, and who underwent an operation in a private British clinic, I think I can say a thing or two about health care in Europe.
“Our out of pocket expenses for the births? Zero, even though in France my wife spent 5 days in the hospital after the birth, which is standard, by the way.
“During the three years we lived in England, we never once paid for medicine for our children. Children get drugs for free in the UK. Visits to the GP are free for everybody.
“My expenses for the week in the NHS hospital? Zero.
“The cost of the operation in the private clinic? Zero, it was covered by my work insurance, as was the post-op physical therapy I needed.
“In Western Europe you would never be forced to sell your home in order to pay for your medical bills, as happens all too often in America when catastrophic illness strikes and the insurance company decides that your condition was ‘pre-existing’.
“The quality of the care? Mostly good. French hospitals are excellent, even the food is decent. The food at the NHS hospital was beyond awful, but then again most English food is pretty bad (though they do have great Indian food). At night, they were understaffed, but I am guessing that, apart from that place where Dr. House works, most American hospitals are understaffed at night, too.
“In short, in the US, you pay more, get less, and die younger than we do in Europe. What part of that don’t you understand?
“My fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear except those who would use fear to keep you enslaved to the myth of the might of the American health care system.”
Jeff Degan
What can I tell you? The guy is a Communist. Not only does he live in France, he actually likes it there. An eternal shame to our family’s good name. Let us boil down his seven paragraphs to their juicy essentials, shall we?
HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY SUCKS.
Here is (Excuse me, I meant to say, “Here was“) a golden opportunity for real reform and the idiotic Americans are screaming about socialism. Is it any wonder that we have become the laughingstock of the Western world?
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
PS – I love English food!
Tom Degan | Aug 21, 2009 | Reply
Exactly Tom. People on the right in the US keep trying to scare Americans about health care in other countries that have “socialized medicine” but the truth is the people in those countries overwhelmingly approve of their health care systems.
How come no country that has universal health care has ever got rid of it? Because people like it! If you tried to change the system in France or the UK to the American system they would be rioting in the streets.
The right wing lies about health care reform must be beaten down with the truth time and time again.
We need health care reform in the United States.
admin | Aug 22, 2009 | Reply