More Bureaucracy In Health Care?

More Bureaucracy In Health Care?

How long do you think your local insurance companies will last if big brother opens up a shop down the road? How about your family’s doctor’s office? Do you want your health care held hostage by our Uncle Sam? I don’t!

How long has it been since you tried to get a definitive or sane answer to something; either in writing, in person, or over the phone; from the DMV, the IRS, the Medicare office, the Social Security people, the Department of Public Safety, the Medicaid people, the head office of your favorite HMO, any county permit office, any state licensing board, the Immigration office, or the VA hospital? Tired yet? Now try waiting for this response with a 6-month old baby in your arms who has an unbearable ear-ache or a 3-year old who has had a fever of 104 degrees for the last day and a half and whose dehydration is scary.

I don’t know who could possibly think that more bureaucracy can help us. Aren’t we already drowning in a sea of paperwork?

One lady told me that she has friends from Canada who enjoy reaping the benefits of living here, in the US, but who return to their homeland for cheap medicines.That’s probably true, but she did not elaborate on the swiftness nor the accuracy, nor the proficiency of the rest of the Canadian medical system. Nor did she allow as to how, nor when, nor where, nor at the expense of whom, any of these medicines had been invented, perfected, tried, tested, patented, etc. I cannot find that there is any large consortium of Canadian test laboratories developing their own new strains of medications from inception to pharmacy-readiness all on their own. Perhaps I’ve just missed it somehow.

We have only to look as far as our own state of Massachusetts who tried a version of state-managed health care, and found that, extremely quickly, it became unbelievably expensive and complicated and ineffective.

In any venue, every new agency that opens up has to be filled with people and equipment and furnishings. Expensive people and equipment and furnishings. And they will be filled by emptying your pockets. And each will have an attending Washington D.C. office over it, full of officials to oversee it, further emptying your pockets.

Many of our newly placed Washington officials, including the president and his appointees and czars, believe that if they can just keep moving quickly enough from one disaster to the next, staying slightly ahead of our national attention span, that we will possibly not notice that most of their self-imposed disasters are also self-induced and self-propagating.

Have we noticed that this gargantuan byzantine “health” bill is proposed to be a full one-sixth of our entire national economy? That’s the number I get. You all know where to find me if you’ve got a different number.

Also, have we noticed that this urgent “health” disaster isn’t scheduled to be put into full activity until 2013? That’s the time frame I get. Now, can we possibly take a moment to notice that the claim that “health care is bankrupting our nation”, as this Democratic Congress’ plan will inevitably do, should it be passed in any guise, will not come to fruition until the people in charge of it have gone out of office and comfortably on to some other disaster somewhere else that hopefully, won’t involve the emptying of my wallet and yours.

Some of these cited 47 million uninsured are the illegals. And, just so we’re clear before we leave this subject, illegal US residents might not have health insurance, but health CARE they do have. Right now, in fact, more than $120 million of the red ink that UMC in Las Vegas has today on their books, is due to fewer than 30 illegal people who are regular kidney dialysis patients, just at that one hospital, for that one procedure.

Imagine thousands of other patients having hundreds of other procedures done all over the country on your nickel. Why, you may ask, don’t these people just go home if they’re sick and can’t work? I asked and found out that their countries of origin have nationalized medicine and they fear dying waiting in line as they’ve seen others die.

If you speak Spanish, you can go and ask some of them yourself. They’ll tell you how much they enjoy that we’re nice enough to save their lives. And for free. They really appreciate it. And I have no idea what to do about it.

Do you feel broke yet? Have you called your Congress people yet? And you’re waiting for what?

P.S. Are you aware that should the “President’s” health insurance plan be enacted, it will insure abortions by virtue of not excluding them; and all sorts of other things with which you disagree?