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May 30th, 2007 - 10:27
I feel the rage building inside of me already.
May 30th, 2007 - 12:31
Domestically, THIS should be the biggest issue that’s on the tip of every tongue. Not abortion. Not gay marriage. Not stem cell research. All important things, but health care in the US is a travesty. I was glad to see Obama release at least a few DETAILS about how he plans on overhauling health care as President. It’ll be a tough row to hoe because small business and the insurance lobbies are gonna scream, but big change will always require some hurt. I’m not suggesting that all the responsibility is with business. People need to realize there is a COST that needs to be paid, whether through their employer’s overhead, some kind of taxes, or out of their pockets. I think repealing Bush’s tax cuts for the rich is a good step toward financing this thing.
May 30th, 2007 - 12:37
Health insurance is never going to be fixed unless it’s completely replaced, not overhauled. I am interested in reading Obama’s ideas, though.
Also, I understand there is a cost to health insurance, but I can’t get myself all that sympathetic for wanting the government to foot the bill, not after all the money they’ve dropped on the war. Fuck them.
May 30th, 2007 - 12:40
Don’t get me started on health care. We just lost our primary care physicans we’ve been going to for 18 years. They were driven out of business by the cost of malpractice insurance and forced into early retirement.
In Philadelphia most of the hospitals have lost their obstetrics units for the same reason.
This looks like a film that should be required viewing.
May 30th, 2007 - 12:48
A friend of mine lost her OB-GYN because of the same thing…driven out of the state by the cost of malpractice. Sad. Infuriating.
May 30th, 2007 - 13:29
Well, the problem with malpractice insurance is a different issue than the problem with health insurance. One is an undue burden being placed on a small number of the well-heeled, and the other, vastly larger in scope, is an undue burden placed on those least equipped to handle it.
I guess the link between the two is that both problems are directly tied to the insanely powerful insurance lobby, but otherwise I think talking about malpractice insurance is a distraction (see: Bush in that trailer).
May 30th, 2007 - 13:41
Granted, I probably don’t know as much about the issue as you might, but aren’t the two totally related? If health insurance is universal and relatively equal, would that not defang the insurance lobby, and in turn drive down rates? If I’m wrong, please explain. :)
May 30th, 2007 - 14:14
I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think the insurance industry gives two licks about high malpractice premiums. The government taking the reins away from them on health care, though? It’s all about scope, baby. Malpractice = a small organic potato. Health = bushels of heavily fertilized Yukon Golds.
I think if you have universal health care, it doesn’t change malpractice. Juries will still feel really sorry for you if something is wrong with your baby, so someone has to pay (i.e. the doctor/his carrier). That’s why I think it’s a distraction from the real problem, for what it’s worth.
May 30th, 2007 - 14:19
It makes me sad that we think we can only solve one problem.
May 30th, 2007 - 14:43
It makes me sad that we’ll likely solve neither.
May 30th, 2007 - 14:44
But yes, Michael, you are right…at the moment it’s about scope.
As for universal health care/malpractice rates, what’s it like in Canada? Anyone know?
May 30th, 2007 - 15:11
Do they even have juries in Canada? Doesn’t like the Queen decide or something?
May 30th, 2007 - 15:12
Oh, and I think we can solve both, but that we should focus on this season’s Big Bad first.
May 30th, 2007 - 15:27
You’re optimism is stirring, sir. I need some of that stuff.
May 30th, 2007 - 15:42
The audacity of hope, muthafucka! ;-)