Health care reform

I wrote this rant on reddit, and before posting it here I wanted to lengthen and "beautify" it...

But you know what? Fuck it, it works fine just the way it is.


There are two options for America.

1) Go capitalism - insurance only used for catastrophic coverage, just like car insurance, and you would pay your own money to visit a doctor for day to day care.

This option would allow doctors and healthcare providers to compete on price and service, and would be something akin to a free market.

Again, think car insurance - when you visit your mechanic for normal repairs, you pay, when you get in a serious crash (cancer, etc) the insurance pays.

This would eliminate the bureaucracy in-between doctors and patients, a middleman who is basically useless and results in a corrupt system.

I prefer option two:

2) Go socialism - single payer, government provided healthcare, which incidentally, is what EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS DOING.

This would allow the government to bid for the price of medicines and health services, using its economies of scale. Think Walmart prices undercutting for decent health care provider services.

But this is the Yoo Ess of Ey.

We will combine the worst features of both these systems, and come up with a horrible third option:

3) Go Lobby Power - Everyone is forced to get insurance, just like car insurance, resulting in millions of new (forced) customers that have to buy private healthcare insurance.

Team Obama already has said that it will not seek to negotiate prices with healthcare insurance nor big pharma for prices of services, medicines, hospital stays - no government negotiation.

So, basically, nothing changes, except for you being forced (now you can opt out if you are young, soon it will be forbidden) to buy health insurance, prices will go up way past inflation, just like they always did, healthcare insurance will try to not pay you due to pre-existing condition, doctors will try to scam both you and insurance, there will be no government regulation...

Question: perhaps it is time to take a look at our so called "democracy", and especially the part LOBBIES play in it? Also, take a look at "free speech" as it is applied to corporations...

Statement: People who are republicans scare me. Most of them make less than 30,000, and are complete and utter morons (old people with Medicare shouting "take government out of my health!" at town home meetings).

People who consider themselves intelligent, and support democrats, I laugh at. Do you realize that the same people pay republicans and democrats? The same PACs, the same lobbyists?

Don't worry, Americans - Israel is guaranteed a $3 billion per year (officially), and that's the only thing that counts in Washington these days.