I read a CNN article with issues in it like health care, Michal Moore, The UN specificly WHO, and it relates to Illegal Immigration and Medicare. It is the dream article to tear down. Why tear down? Because there is a better way then Federalized Health Care. An excerpt is at the bottom, it might be helpful to read it first.
We spend a lot of money, Duh we develop medicine, we have extra money, about 4 % it looks like. Money represents work, if more money ie work does not produce something better, yes we have a problem. What is the problem? Maybe excess paperwork, law suit, government interference, market forces (yes they can be a problem right now, nurses aren’t valuable to the tune of 40/per hour for the work they do there is a scarcity of nurses) and a lack of young people to fill positions. By the way I am against federalized national health care in case that wasn’t obvious. There are other ways to to solve problems without bankrupting we the people.
WHO (World Health Org. )doesn’t like us, what else is new, neither does the UN. Still we do a pretty good job of health care as stated in the last Paragraph of the article that no one reads while browsing. Grrrrrr. What values did we fall short on for health care for? One leaps off of the page at me. “…how the care’s paid for…” hmm so because we don’t have government healthcare and people abuse the emergency room ether because they aren’t citizens, or happen to be poor we must have the 37th best health care in the world. In other words preventive maintenance of health should be the responsibility of the government.
My argument is No, this is a false statement. We do not have 37th best health care and our problems are not government derived for the most part. Therefore the government can stay ‘far far away’ from health care. FDA yes, Comrade’s Welfare and Health agency no. People are responsible for their health a lot of the time. People do the best you can and some of this problem goes away. Government, Build a fence and millions of people won’t come and destroy the southwest ER. Does that sound heartless, yes but the alternative is worse. Alot of health care or none. If we have some order we will actually be able to provide for everyone through charities, there is enough and to spare. Does order have to come from the government, no. Is Medicare is efficient? NO! What world are you living in, in 2020 (2013?) what happens? Program goes bye bye. Don’t believe me read the General Accounting Office’s report, pick a year any year.
Lines I am responding to CNN article on Sicko.
“Again, that’s true. The United States spends more than 15 percent of its GDP on health care — no other nation even comes close to that number. France spends about 11 percent, and Canadians spend 10 percent.
Like Moore, we also found that more money does not equal better care. Both the French and Canadian systems rank in the Top 10 of the world’s best health-care systems, according to the World Health Organization
. The United States comes in at No. 37. The rankings are based on general health of the population, access, patient satisfaction and how the care’s paid for.
So, if Americans are paying so much and they’re not getting as good or as much care, where is all the money going? “Overhead for most private health insurance plans range between 10 percent to 30 percent,” says health-care analyst Paul Keckley. Overhead includes profit and administrative costs.
“Compare that to Medicare, which only has an overhead rate of 1 percent. Medicare is an extremely efficient health-care delivery system,” says Mark Meaney, a health-care ethicist for the National Institute for Patient Rights
