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Why has the Bush administration been very beholden to the pharmaceutical and the insurance industries? |
While being very reluctant to move healthcare legislation that can really make a difference to working class people? Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage Premiums Have Risen 73% Since 2000. Prescription Drug Prices Skyrocketing Nearly 46 Million Americans Are Uninsured As a citizen of the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth, should anyone have to choose between taking their child to a doctor and paying the rent? Your right, but unfortunately every administration for years has been this way. It has no longer become "about the American" than about their own pocketbook. Hillarys little scandel was ludicris and the cost of prescriptions drugs jumped almost 50% under Clinton. in short, this is what i think about a national system: National Health care is estimated to cost American tax payers 339 billion dollars per year. Imagine the tax hike that would incur. For all that tax money, we would buy surprisingly little health care. The one common characteristic of all national health care systems is a shortage of services. For example, in Great Britain, a country with a population of only 55 million, more than 800,000 patients are waiting for surgery. In New Zealand, a country with a population of just 3 million, the surgery waiting list now exceeds 50,000. In Sweden the wait for heart x-rays is more than 11 months. Heart surgery can take an additional 8 months. In Canada the wait for hip replacement surgery is nearly 10 months; for a mammogram, 2.5 months; for a pap smear, 5 months. Surgeons in Canada report that, for heart patients, the danger of dying on the waiting list now exceeds the danger of dying on the operating table. According to Alice Baumgart, president of the Canadian Nurses Association, emergency rooms are so overcrowded that patients awaiting treatment frequently line the corridors. The price hike would kill us and the service would no be par to current healthcare. Until the leaders get their hands out of the pharmacuticles pockets, we will always see a rise in healthcare. Lobbyists paid for his seat in the white house. would you like to take your child to the doctor for something serious and be forced to wait days to see the doctor because everyone with a runny nose is in line ahead of you? That is what socialized medicine will accomplish. Last time I looked, Bush got the prescription drug thing for seniors. All this stuff could have been done under how many other Presidents. Ask Clinton, he had 8 years also, didn't do squat. Except Monika. that is Bush's base... This is an ongoing problem, not just limited to the Bush Administration. I don't see universal healthcare as the solution as there are inherint problems with such a system. How about a little tort reform? My wife's OB/GYN stopped delivering babies this year, because her Medical Malpractice premiums went through the roof. That's not because of her own actions, but lawsuits gone over the top. A lot of Americans are uninsured by choice. That is, employers offer the coverage (most of the cost of which is payed by the employer) and many people elect not to take it. Good question, but as soon as anybody mentions Health care, the crazies jump right in with fervor. They forget that socialized medicine works in most of Europe, and Canada. They also don't realize that it would also be cheaper than the current system of insurance. |
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