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- I don't even think I want to know the answer
- I'm sick of watching news coverage of the Vietnam War.
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Copied text from the president's Labor Day speech, as published on Yahoo:
""They should be free to make a profit. But they also have to be fair. They also have to be accountable," the president said. "That's what we're talking about — security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don't, coverage they need at a price they can afford, finally bringing costs under control — that's the reform that's needed."
Mr. President, I respectfully disagree. The reform that's needed is reform that goes way beyond the function of the system. The reform the American people need is reform at the institutional level so that health care is NOT about making a profit, but making people well when they are sick.
As long as insurance companies are 'free' to make a profit, they will; using whatever loopholes their lawyers can find in the legislation as soon as it becomes law. Let's face it, their lawyers have access to all the deliberations before hand through the freedom of information act, and they are already working hard to make sure the bottom line still provides plenty of black ink, any way it can. That's just business.
Health care is big business, and that can be seen in hospitals building parking garages. There is no return on a parking garage, even the parking fees don't come close to paying for them in their life span. But you can go to any hospital in America almost and see construction still going on (thank god). Still, one has to wonder, how is all that construction work possible in such a dead economy?
Health care is big business. That's how, and it's not only big money for hospitals, it's big money for insurers, and every one knows it. THAT is the reform we need to see happen. We need to know that when we are given a list of physicians to go see with our health concerns, we aren't being corralled into the pharmacy company's pill dispenser like so many cows being milked for the days breakfast. We need to know that we're not just contributing to the number of Mercedes Benz automobiles at the local hospital, pharmacy company, insurance company, and so forth. It's not profitable to make sick people well, it's profitable to keep them sick and give them medicine.
So I have to disagree on principle. NONE of them should be free to make a profit, that's NOT what the industry should be about. If you were to make the entire health care industry exist under 'non-profit' rules, we might all start being well again.
Just thinking out loud... - Some world organizations amaze me at times.
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