by UrMessage

Created on: August 04, 2009   Last Updated: August 06, 2009

Since Obama is only trying to be a figure for "change" and not improvement, his plan will not accomplish anything. What I mean by this is that we have decent health care, in fact we have some of the best health care in the world. If you are seriously injured or dying, the emergency rooms must accept and treat you with or without insurance or a method of payment.

Go to another country and try to get the same level of care! I have, Brazil and England are on two different ends of economic stability and both fail in their socialized medicine. What America is lacking is the financial side of things.

The government needs to step up their side of the deal. Currently medicare and medical and other state and federal programs pay pennies on the dollar to hospitals. For this reason, hospitals justify super high prices on their services so that the pennies Obama gives back to them is sufficient. In addition, they do this for the guise of health insurance.

If you receive a $10,000 medical bill for a one night stay in a hospital, your insurance company will readjust down to let's say $8,000. Next they kick in their 80% and you kick in your 20% or whatever your coinsurance rate is. If insurance companies have already negotiated down these rates and most Americans have insurance, why not lower the charge to $8,000? Then force state and federal programs to pay a higher percentage?

Insurance companies also need to learn to cut their line off and let people die, sorry guys but I am a realist. What happens in a year or two when scientists learn to keep us alive for several more years but that the cost is so high it would bankrupt the economy? I guarantee some low life, never paid taxes, will find a way for the government to pay for the service!

This is what bankrupts the system, paying for ridiculous surgeries and illegal immigrants and pregnant illegal immigrants. Homeless and extremely poor of America are covered by Federal and State Programs (even though those programs only pay a little, a little is better than nothing).

So there you have it, money. The system works, the care is great but the costs are high. So why would the government step in? Why not then just create ways to force hospitals and insurance companies to work together and lower costs? Lastly, the government is the main problem now with health care. If the government is not willing to pay hospitals their costs, what makes you think they can run hospitals?

There aren't even enough doctors in the USA to compensate for a Federal Health Care System, then what. The government is trying to solve a problem but as usual the wrong way. You can't beat down the Federal Deficit by spending more money. Therefore you can't spend trillions of dollars to create a new health care system only because the current system is too expensive, that is backwards.

Use some of the money to pay higher rates for medicare, medical and other programs and the rest of the money to monitor and be a watchdog, nothing more.

Sometimes it is good to have the government step in, but in this case it will be a disaster. More money, more taxes, more freeloaders, and not enough doctors and taxpayers to make it work! Remember, taxpayers are footing the bill for all the gang bangers, prisoners, and low lifes who want free health coverage!

For another topic, why do we treat prisoners with full health coverage but not homeless and low income families? Shouldn't we take care of the good people of this country first and then the criminals and underworld last?

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