You know what I've never seen covered well under any group plan?
Vision.
I have never had the costs of my glasses/contacts covered.
You know what I've never seen covered well under any group plan?
Vision.
I have never had the costs of my glasses/contacts covered.
More accurately:
Anybody who has good health care and operates under the delusion that they could never lose it: against
Anybody who lives in the real world: for
Originally posted by: silverpig
I heard of this guy who went camping in Yellowstone. Got mauled by a bear. Not a fucking doctor in sight.
Yogi is a dick....
And I broke my jaw into four pieces in MA. I went to the hospital at 6pm. It was 11pm by the time I was taken in (and yes, you could see the bone loose inside my mouth). I was given Tylenol, sent home and told to come back at 8am when the maxillofacial surgeon was in and that I was given "priority."
The two measures by which healthcare is measured is the following : Quality of life and per capita spending.
Quality of life: The US has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, quality of life ratings in the developed world.
Per capita spending: The US spends more government money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. That doesn't include private money that goes into the system.
Clearly the system is broken. Anyone that argues against that is either blind, or stupid, or worse, both. The American system simply does not work. Any industralized country has a system that is better than America's. All of Western Europe spends less on healthcare, lives healthier lives and covers everyone. To say that our system doesn't need help is asinine.
It appears that people are afraid of change, whether or not that change is good. They are finding things to latch onto to be against government healthcare in any way. Care rationing is a smart thing. Why spend 50,000 on a treatment when it isn't noticably better than the 5,000 dollar treatment? It just doesn't make sense. It's like buying a gold toliet, in the end, you just need it to hold your shit in and flush it to the sewer systems. Are there times the 50,000 dollar treatment is justified? I'm sure there is and it should remain an option. However, the point of care rationing is that you look at what statistically performs better and if the 5,000 dollar treatment is just as good as the 50,000 treatment most of the time, then there's no need for that course of treatment. In America, more often than not, we are thrust into the most expensive option first because that's what makes everyone money.
The status quo just hasn't worked, it never has. It's time to accept change. We can debate on what kind of change is going to happen, but I haven't seen any Republican plan at all. And that is simply unacceptable. Employer-based coverage is killing employers. It's killing Americans. It just flat out sucks.
Quality of life: The US has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, quality of life ratings in the developed world.
Per capita spending: The US spends more government money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. That doesn't include private money that goes into the system.
Clearly the system is broken. Anyone that argues against that is either blind, or stupid, or worse, both. The American system simply does not work. Any industralized country has a system that is better than America's. All of Western Europe spends less on healthcare, lives healthier lives and covers everyone. To say that our system doesn't need help is asinine.
It appears that people are afraid of change, whether or not that change is good. They are finding things to latch onto to be against government healthcare in any way. Care rationing is a smart thing. Why spend 50,000 on a treatment when it isn't noticably better than the 5,000 dollar treatment? It just doesn't make sense. It's like buying a gold toliet, in the end, you just need it to hold your shit in and flush it to the sewer systems. Are there times the 50,000 dollar treatment is justified? I'm sure there is and it should remain an option. However, the point of care rationing is that you look at what statistically performs better and if the 5,000 dollar treatment is just as good as the 50,000 treatment most of the time, then there's no need for that course of treatment. In America, more often than not, we are thrust into the most expensive option first because that's what makes everyone money.
The status quo just hasn't worked, it never has. It's time to accept change. We can debate on what kind of change is going to happen, but I haven't seen any Republican plan at all. And that is simply unacceptable. Employer-based coverage is killing employers. It's killing Americans. It just flat out sucks.
Complete BS of course. It all depends on what question is asked and what the proposed solution is. If you ask someone "do you think everyone should be able to get affordable health insurance", of course you're going to get one answer. If you ask "do you wand a big giant government-run bureaucratic mess of a system to ration your medical care and handle your health?", of course the answer is going to be "no".
The reality is that most people favor some sort of overhaul, and most people want to see everyone be able to get basic health care. Beyond that, it's all about the implementation of whatever plan you come up with, and how it would impact most people.
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