Wifezilla,I am terrified that they will get Cap and Trade(Tax) and Socialized Health Care too! These idiots will use anything thing that the can to create a "crisis" that frightens the American people, who then rush into things that they have not fully thought out! If Americans realized how much Cap and Trade (Tax) will cost in money and jobs and how little it will do to change what they have been told is a problem, Americans would run screaming in the other direction.
Healthcare is an issue that needs to be fixed, but not in the "radical" way that Socialized Medicine will change it! Socialized Medicine will dumb down the health care to the lowest common denominator. Another words, Everyone will get healthcare, but it will not be the quality health care that we get now. Yes, people will be able to go the doctor if they have the sniffles or the flu and it will be covered, but you don't want to be under a Socialized System if you get something major, like cancer or other less common dseases. There will be little if any innovation once Socialized Medicine is instituted. Innovation is costly, and under a system that uses "Cost Benefit Analysis" when determining treatments, innovation will be smothered and cease to exist. Treatments will be doled out based on life expectancy and success rate. Another words, those who are old or are thought to be terminally ill will get little if any treatment for their illness, they will probabbly die on a waiting list. At best they will get the cheapest tests and treatment possible, which may not be what they actually need. Cost will determine the care you receive. My mother, at the age of 72, had a double bypass. It saved her life, but at a cost of $68,000. Under Socialized Medicine, I do not think that she would have gotten her surgery.
Socialized Medicine will also be the reason that fewer people to go into the medical field. There will be an even greater shortage of nurses and doctors, because the money will not be there to be made, and the beaurocratic (sp) nightmare that the government will cause in paperwork will make it not worth their effort. This will lead to long waits for needed diagnosis and treatments in the rural areas of our country because there will not be an adequate supply of specialists and specialized equipment. This happens in some areas of Canada and England. There are areas of the country where there is a concentration of quality care and then in other areas the care is slow and inadequate. That is why you get conflicting reports on the quality of care in Canada and England. Yes we also have these issues, but you currently can travel to a hospital anywhere in the country to get your care. You will no longer be able to do that. You will not be given the various options that are available for treatment of your condition. The only options that will be discussed will be the ones that have been aproved by some bean counter in a governmental office who bases his decision on "Cost Benefit". All the choices that you currently have will cease to exist. They will make your choice. Even people without insurance have choices. You can select what hospital you will go to and what types of treatments you want to receive. You cannot be refused ER care and hospitals will work with you to pay the bill. If you have to you can even go into bankruptcy to get relief from some of your debts, BUT AT LEAST YOU WILL BE ALIVE! This will not necessarily be the case under Socialized Medicine.
Ask our Veterans about the care that they receive. Some receive excellent care but unfortunately most do not! That is what government run health care will be like.
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I pray we dont need it.
