Universal healthcare is not about fixing. It is about maintaining health. Tom Daschel said it before he resigned due to tax reasons.
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
This means that the elderly will have to accept the conditions that come with aging like the need for hip replacements, the need for cardiac bypass but this will not be done, not treated, thus the elderly will bear the brunt. (THEY WILL NOT BE TREATED)
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We all have our uses of the heath care system.
Younger people have more accidents, more sports injuries, more pregnancy and fertility usage.
Older people have chronic health problems like arthritis and the normal problems of aging, cataracts, presbyopia, diminished strength and endurance.
No one gets out of life without problems.
For every racial problem, like more blood pressure problems and diabetes in Native Americans and blacks, there is another problem more prevalent among whites. like osteoporosis.
Its not just for any system to play favorites based on faulty logic
Ron, I’m also much older than most here, and I do remember those days, a doctor visit was $5. a hospital stay went for less than $55 a day. There was no collection agency threatening you either.
The doctor charged me $125 for prenatal care and delivery, the hospital charge for the delivery, nursery and bed was $425.
When my daughter had her daugher 27 years later. The OB charged $4,000. The hospital the same, but she only stayed for two days.
She also had insurance.
Healthcare costs have exceeded the costs of living and the rise in wages by several hundred times. What you describe can’t go on, the hospitals won’t wait, they turn you over to collections, and the doctors won’t treat you, they will send you to doctors who will do that, but not all of them do.
Great question! I’m most probably much older than most of you on “Answers”so I’ll tell you what I know to be true,and you can make your own judgment.I grew up in a time when most people didn”t have health insurance like we do today.My parents worked hard,and when sickness hit us,we worked out a payment plan with the Doctors,and drug stores.We “charged”it,and payed on every month as promised.We gave our”word”to pay these people for their products and services.I worked pretty well Most of our friends lived “beneath their means”and saved for that rainy day that always came,Most people sacrificed so their children could have a better life than they did.Then things began to change,somewhere around the 1960′s.The government began to get into “helping us”by paying for some of our medical services ie Social Security Benefits.Payment for these services began coming in slower,and the prices began to be jacked-up to ofset this delay.Now the system has become all about money,and government control over the system,have no doubt about about it!I would doubt if “prejudice”plays a large roll in this,but it will only get a lot worse in my opinion.If we really want our government to run our health care system,just look at Amtrack,and every other thing they have become involved with with!
It is wrong. Flat out wrong. We are living in a time when the most vulnerable and perhaps valuable of our citizenry are being treated as disposable: The children (born and unborn) and the elderly.
Don’t take this as a call for universal healthcare, btw. Take this as a call to fix Social Security and Medicare (maybe dump Medicaid for the able-bodied adults) and stop aborting future workers.
Your right and please add little babies and kids to your list who will be pushed aside too as many of them do not come out perfect. And the elderly doesn’t mean over 70 yrs old it means people in their 50′s.
President Obama is obligated to many unions, banks and other organizations as they are the ones who gave him millions during the 2008 Campaign. SO they own him and he will have to sacrifice millions of Americans for money he received to pay them back.
It’s a disgrace but the Congress and the Senate have to vote on it so let’s hope it won’t pass. Remember Obama’s Cap & Trade didn’t pass either as it all sounds Rosy until you read what it entails.
It is not a question of justice. It is merely a question of expediency.
in order for the government to pay for health care, procedures on the elderly will have to be rationed
Its not, we should let younger people go without while we fill the orders of all the aging people that are constantly having body parts fail.
Just so you people can have irrational defense for your irrational views.
it isnt. but they know that they will most likely have to pay up when having clients that are elderly because elderly people have so many health issues. see what i mean?
Because in that case controlling expenses is OK with liberals..