American Health Care
I have been finding it highly depressing lately watching such ridiculously stupid arguments being put forward against the health care reform in America. Yet, yet! It seems to be making ground! It’s total madness. The arguments range from the insane death panel nonsense based on some part about getting free will writing…forced in by the Reblicians who then turn it into death panels! Then you hear insurance companies won’t be able to compete…right the same companies who had been banging on for decades that the public sector can’t run anything, so why would they worry, isn’t that an admission on their part there rubbish!? To the need for competition in the system…what competition is there now!? Most areas are dominated by one insurance company, at the most two! Then the best that people will be denied treatment…right firstly that happens a lot already for pretty awful reasons and secondly if you don’t have any health care to start with, anything however small is an improvement, no!?
The anti movement is made out to be grass roots however it clearly isn’t, as all instigation leads back to insurance companies and republican party ranking members. Obama got voted in promising this by a large majority! They distort the wording of course, there is a lot of dispute how the system should be reformed, not if we need reform, two very different things!
There is no real argument against the reform, and the irony is of course the bill goes nowhere near far enough, hell it’s not even Universal Health care! It’s an insurance policy, the system is still private! So will continue to not be as good as it could be.
Privatisation only brings more waste and less service. Take the NHS in the UK, in the 80s the administration part of the service was privatised, which increased the burrcrascy by 15%! Which increased cost, we can look at each time they have privatised the running of part of the service and we see costs sky rocket.
