As many are whining about the costs of being insured, they pander to the Democrats universal health care promise.
On Fox News Wednesday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, “If we don’t get universal health care, we will continue to bleed money.” Funny. The more Washington politicians promise to control health care costs, the higher they go. As humorist P.J. O’Rourke famously said, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama both promise to provide access to health care for all Americans by mandating that employers provide or contribute to the cost of health plans for employees.
What’s with the glory of mandated employer provided health care insurance? There really is no glory; and what’s happening now should give warning to what would be happening if EVERYONE who works gets their insurance through government mandates.
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.
With medical costs soaring, the coverage many people have may not adequately protect them from the financial shock of an emergency room visit or a major surgery. For some, even routine doctor visits might now take a back seat to basic expenses like food and gasoline.
Let’s blame the economic slowdown? No. Let’s blame people who make poor financial choices. Who don’t plan and anticipate for their medical needs. Who think they are entitled to free, or very low costs health care.
Will we ask people to truly cut their budgets? Take classes in Economics 101? Or spread the burden across the tax payers’ shoulders and ask everyone to accept very high premiums, high deductables, little to no access to their own doctors and hospitals…and more.
Once again, people need to make choices: Health care costs or the cell phone; the medication co pay or the Internet access, and so on. Oh the choices they must make. Or not. Forcing businesses to provide insurance isn’t an answer. Health care is not a right. It’s not free. Even when the out of pocket costs are low, someone else is paying…and now that burden is coming down to average people. It can only get worse.
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I agree in theory. But what about those of us who have been living thriftily (small house with only one bathroom and no central AC, no plasma TV, never having bought a new vehicle, few vacations, etc.) saving for our retirement, and still unable to deal with the soaring cost of health insurance?
This study is 100% Bunk! The doctors who did this study also conducted one in 2002 and found that the majority of doctors did not want national health care, the problem with this is that the 2 question surveys drastically differ in there 2nd question. I found this article, 60% of Physicians Surveyed Oppose Switching to a National Health Care Plan, It’s worth a read.