Make medicine better: the blog

I'm still so confused about what healthcare reform actually means!

As a self employed individual I have had to pay a ridiculous amount for health insurance. I never understood until I left my left company just how bad it is. I'm still trying to figure out a solution. It is really painful.

Is there relief in sight?

Working in the part of the hospital that makes sure that insurance covers procedures, I find some of the arguments against President Obama's health reform proposals ridiculous. Daily, I see Insurance company "Death Panels" deciding what get's covered and what doesn't. I see illegals already saturating emergency rooms and Labor and Delivery for free care. I see seniors tricked into Medicare HMO's that deny everything! I see plans that split and multiply to the point that participants can, in no way, understand their coverage.

Furthermore, people all of the sudden seemed concerned about the rising cost of our National Debt. I'd like to know who's plan you support that will leave your grand children with no burden at all? As far as government over-intrusion into the lives of citizens, many of those protesting the public option on those grounds are doing so with a Medicare card in their wallets???

You say America has the best healthcare system in the world... On what grounds do you base that? Have you ever been under another Nation's healthcare system? You may say that some people have to wait so long for care that they come to the U.S. to have treatment. To that I must say, if they can AFFORD to come to the U.S. for treatment, they can afford to PAY for treatment at home and not wait; just like you would be able to.

All of the sudden the poor insurance companies are being unfairly burdened with having to actually provide for their insured's. (Even with ridiculous policies like "Domestic Violence" being a "Pre-existing Condition"

Well, to the lawmakers I just would like to ask which of you are willing to give up your "Public Option" healthcare???

And to those of you angry constituents, I pray you don't ever get sick.

I sincerely believe that adequate health care is a basic human right that should be provided to every citizen in a decent society. Since I veiw it as a basic right, in my opinion, when profit margins are introduced into the equation it leads to bad results. That is what we have seen in this country and in order to change it we have to change the way we view. A viable public option should; therefore, be a big part of any reform that takes place.