If your poor, good news. The rich are paying your healthcare.

[Sardauk]

HappySqurriel said:

Sardauk said:

Ok so what do you guys think Obama should do ?

 

I saw this tv broadcast about poor US people who never saw a doctor or a dentist in their live.

They had to queue for 10 hours into a sport complex to have a chance to see a (free) specialist ...

 

What do we do with that ? Is this kind of things acceptable ?

Why do you (and everyone it seems) assume that this problem will be instantly resolved by switching who pays for healthcare?

The number one reason why healthcare has become so expensive over the past (roughly) 100 years is that technology has increased giving us an ability to treat far more things, and to be far more successful with what we do treat; and because we're treating more things and the cost of everything we treat is going up we are seeing exponential growth in the cost of delivering healthcare. To make matters worse people are living less healthy lives then they ever did, and this is adding strain to an already stressed system.

We should be focusing on reducing the 90% of illnesses and injuries that are preventable, and reducing the (over) 50% of costs that are associated with overhead in the system.

Changing who pays for the system won't make a difference.

This is totally true... AND totally utopistic.

My next question is : Who pays for what now ? edited