Mr. Middle Class: Do you expect us to pay exorbitant fees for health care?
Upper Class: No Mr. Middle Class, I expect you to die!
Well perhaps this isn't the best paraphrasing of the famous lines from the James Bond movie, Goldfinger, but why would the upper class be against social medicine? Because they want to make sure that the masses don't live very long. After we serve our purpose, they want us to die. They do not want us to enjoy a happy retirement and use the Social Security System that is already on very shaky ground thanks to the past polices of Ronald Reagan.
Social medicine would only ensure that middle class and poor people would live longer, and we can't have that. They'll keep expecting to get Social Security, and then eventually the rich would have to pick up the bill, and they of course never want to do that.
What kills me is that the only Social medicine proposal in recent history was the Clintons' 1993 plan which was quickly shot down, and no has come back to propose some type of middle ground.
I think we could at least have a program where regular check-ups and preventive medicine are paid for through a social program, and all other procedures have to be paid for through insurance either provided for by an employer or paid for out of pocket by the individual.
Another step to take would be to socialize medical schools to make sure that there are enough doctors, nurses and health care workers to go around. The increased supply of medical professionals will insure that medical costs remain under control. You see it all comes back to supply and demand.
Keeping hospitals and health insurers non-profit would also be a big help. The trend has been the opposite making hospitals and health insurers for profit, because the rich realize that most people will pay for their lives, and pay for them dearly.
Another move in the right direction would be make a law that says if it's called health insurance and you're a licensed medical professional you must accept it. If you don't you loose your license. No excuses! No more of this finding doctors that accept your insurance plan. This would be a big help to millions of Americans that already have insurance. I'm sure there is a physicians lobby that works against ideas like these. Of course health insurance plans should be ordered to pay bills quickly and within a certain percentage of the amount billed.
I'm not sure why politicians are so out of touch with reality that they cannot even take little steps in the right direction like the ones I mentioned above. There must be a very powerful physicians lobby as well as the pharmaceutical lobby. The only thing we can do is write our elected representatives, and hope they have enough of a heart to help out the working families of this country.
Upper Class: No Mr. Middle Class, I expect you to die!
Well perhaps this isn't the best paraphrasing of the famous lines from the James Bond movie, Goldfinger, but why would the upper class be against social medicine? Because they want to make sure that the masses don't live very long. After we serve our purpose, they want us to die. They do not want us to enjoy a happy retirement and use the Social Security System that is already on very shaky ground thanks to the past polices of Ronald Reagan.
Social medicine would only ensure that middle class and poor people would live longer, and we can't have that. They'll keep expecting to get Social Security, and then eventually the rich would have to pick up the bill, and they of course never want to do that.
What kills me is that the only Social medicine proposal in recent history was the Clintons' 1993 plan which was quickly shot down, and no has come back to propose some type of middle ground.
I think we could at least have a program where regular check-ups and preventive medicine are paid for through a social program, and all other procedures have to be paid for through insurance either provided for by an employer or paid for out of pocket by the individual.
Another step to take would be to socialize medical schools to make sure that there are enough doctors, nurses and health care workers to go around. The increased supply of medical professionals will insure that medical costs remain under control. You see it all comes back to supply and demand.
Keeping hospitals and health insurers non-profit would also be a big help. The trend has been the opposite making hospitals and health insurers for profit, because the rich realize that most people will pay for their lives, and pay for them dearly.
Another move in the right direction would be make a law that says if it's called health insurance and you're a licensed medical professional you must accept it. If you don't you loose your license. No excuses! No more of this finding doctors that accept your insurance plan. This would be a big help to millions of Americans that already have insurance. I'm sure there is a physicians lobby that works against ideas like these. Of course health insurance plans should be ordered to pay bills quickly and within a certain percentage of the amount billed.
I'm not sure why politicians are so out of touch with reality that they cannot even take little steps in the right direction like the ones I mentioned above. There must be a very powerful physicians lobby as well as the pharmaceutical lobby. The only thing we can do is write our elected representatives, and hope they have enough of a heart to help out the working families of this country.
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