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Health Care Bill Would Be Disaster For The Poor
Posted by | Posted in Health | Posted on 11-10-2010
Most Americans are aware that buried somewhere in the 2,000-page health care reform bill are provisions for cutting the already- strapped Medicare program by billions of dollars. Few are aware that the bill also cuts expenditures on county hospitals currently serving the poor.
In Chicago, for example, those without health insurance go to the county hospital where they are treated without regard to whether they have health insurance. If the bill is passed, however, many of these county hospitals will either have to close their doors or deny treatment to those without health insurance.
Although the bill passed by the Senate has been depicted as using coercive means to require those currently uninsured to buy insurance they cannot afford, or as imposing additional new taxes on the American working man and family, that bill is based on a fundamental lack of understanding of how the health care needs of the nation’s poor are currently served.
The desperately poor, many of them unemployed, are not equipped to deal with complicated insurance programs, deductibles, co-pays and all the other accoutrements of the typical health care policy. They are poor, they are unemployed, they are sick, they need a place to go to be treated without red tape and procedural obstacles.
County hospitals across the country that have provided that place are now threatened with a cut-off of funding and in many cases with extinction by the current health care reform bill passed by the Senate.
A number of proposals for making health care affordable for all Americans have been put forward by those who have sought to be heard during the legislative process. All these proposals have been rejected by a Congress determined to impose government control of health care.
Among these rejected proposals is to allow people to buy health insurance they can afford. Currently, government mandates require a single man to buy maternity coverage he will never use, or to pay inflated premiums to insure against going insane. It would be similar to a government mandate requiring every person to buy a Rolls Royce instead of a Ford. And then when people can’t afford to buy the Rolls Royce, they’re without any car at all.
Another rejected proposal is to allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines, thus increasing the competitive pressure to provide affordable insurance. Proposals for modest curbs on the multimillion-dollar malpractice suits that divert billions of dollars away from health care and into the pockets of high-rolling trial attorneys have also been rejected.
Even proposals for limited but cost-effective catastrophic government insurance have been rejected by those determined to have government take over health care across the board.
Watch the video related to health care
This is Rep. Alan Grayson discussing the GOP plan for health care. Part one, don’t get sick. Part two, if you do get sick… Part three, die quickly.
Help answer the question about health care
What health care problem should I address in a statistics assignment?I have to make a power point about a health care problem for a statistics class and include a frequency table, which means I need actual numbers, not percentages as most statistic information is portrayed. Does anyone know what would be a good health-related topic where I could find actual numbers easily? Or any good websites for health-related data?
~~No, they can not check to see if you have insurance. Actually it's sad to have to "lie" in this country to receive health care just because of financial problems.
In your case, you do not really have regular insurance because yours is catastrophic insurance. Therefore, your health comes first and it is what it is. You need care, and your tax dollars (if you are working or will be working), go for this. You should have access to it when you are in need. I honestly do not blame you for your choice. This is why it is imperative to support President Obama in his fight for health care reform. We should not be placed in these compromised situations just to get medical care.
Don't worry, there is no way they can verify whether you have insurance or not. In the long run, I'd say you don't anyway, when it comes to routine care.~~
It seems you are reviewing it yourself. Did you have a question? Politico has a summary that is more to the point. You can save some time by reading their highlights.http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0310/BREAKING__Reconciliation_bill_posted_.html
The "Louisiana provision" by the way applies to all states that have a serious natural catastrophe.