Sunday, July 8, 2012

Discovering our health care!!!


From Catholicvote.com: the formal
 sign for healthcare
Have you ever thought about heath care and what the effects it is going to have on us?  Health care has become a national topic these days and the implications appear to be damaging.  You look at the financial portion of this bill, and we have spent two years paying for something that hasn’t even happened.  What are American’s going to do with the constant rise in health care, which we can’t afford now?  There are times that we have taken on different objectives but we raised taxes or we implemented a payer source, this hasn’t even been thought of.  Health care costs have rapidly been rising each year to pay for less coverage.  Will we have to limit the insurance carrier’s amount they can charge us that are not able to afford the minimum requirements?  Even some of the unions which carry all workers and their families for little are planning on giving this one benefit to the state and they will supplement the cost.  What is happening with our Medicare?  What about Medicaid? These are poorly ran systems that are going to govern our health.  Our seniors are not able to cover their 99 dollar Medicare premium just to get the basic coverage then they will pay for either a supplemental plan or a drug plan which are above the premium costs that we pay monthly.  You then look at the hospitals with few beds for the sick, but they can’t wait to push you onto another facility, even when you are still at our most critical statuses.  Where is our health care going?  What are we going to do about the future in health care?  What is going to happen with our drug coverage?  What is going to happen with our emergency rooms?  What is going to happen with our urgent care?  What is going to happen with our premiums for coverage?  What is going to happen with our destitute?  What is going to happen to happen with our children? 
Jonic's view of Congress

I believe that health care matters, as there are so many obstacles that we face between long term illnesses and accidents, there needs to be solvable solution to make sure that all American’s are covered for life.  I am hoping to get a lot of feedback from you all about this subject but as I will research this issue in the coming days on the Internet and newspaper, this has become my passion on saving our health care system.




Works Cited
Jonic. Congress. N.d. Photograph. healthcare-now.org The Authority for Health Care. 2012. Photograph. Catholicvote.org
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM

    Very relevant topic right now! This is an issue I care a lot about, as I do NOT receive health insurance from my employer (because, like 60-70% of teachers at our college, I am not a full-time faculty member), and because I have a per-existing condition that means a regular insurance company such as Blue Cross always denies me.

    Naturally, you will find plenty of recent news articles on this issue. But on a more philosophical level, you might want to read this article by Peter Singer. It's a few years old and definitely controversial, but it addresses the ethical issue of universal health care: "Why We Must Ration Health Care"

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=all

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  2. AnonymousJuly 9, 2012 at 8:54 AM

    P.S. can you change the font type of your comments? I find this fancy script a bit hard to read. Thanks!

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  3. Vikki WJuly 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    I also am concerned about the healthcare issue, but probably from the other side of it. While I do think we need healthcare reform, I do not believe that the government has the right to make you buy a product you do not want, nor to buy it for someone else's benefit. This has already affected my ability to get healthcare. When they first started all this talk about this bill, I was on the lowest rung of our healthplan, HSA with highest deductible. We are trying to maintain a single worker household so I can stay home with our kids full time. When all this talk started, that when our rates started going up. Every three months for a year and a half! It wasn't long before we were priced out of the least expensive plan they had, and these liars in Congress are still telling us we can keep the healthcare of our choice! Wrong! The providers started jacking the prices up before the bill, because they knew that after the bill, they would be unable to raise the premiums. So now, after searching for other providers, I get denied for a pre-existing condition, that was one-off condition caused by something else that can't even occur again (pregnancy). And while I don't want to deny anyone else the opportunity to get healthcare, I don't believe it is MY duty to provide it for you. Just as it is not your duty to provide mine. If I want to see a doctor, I will pay it for myself. My money, my doctor, my care. I will NOT have some gov't funded doctor decide what my level of care is based upon how much it will cost, and trying to reduce those costs because it's paid out of the gov't pool as to what gets covered and what not. Because of these changes, and the circumstances thrust upon us, my husband and I have opened our own business with no employees, and will fund our private care out of the new company. At least this way, if I must work, it will be at home with my family as was intended, and not shuttled into this monstrosity of what they call health'care'. I will gladly pay more for a private practice doctor than this idiocy of a program and their death panels.

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