SlayerRondo said:
It's unfair to lay the blame for increasing healthcare cost on Obama alone (though he deserves part of the blame) as the lack of competition within the medical industry due to government and insurance systems. I can't remember the last time I actually looked into the cost of any medical appointments or prodedures I have had because I am provided with no incentive to do so. If i were to receive incentive to shop arround the medical industry would be forced to take notice and compete like any other industry. What concerns me most is not medical cost from my insurance but the increase in medicar and medicade spending on part of the government leading to increasing budget deficit in turn increased government debt to GDP ratio that is, I believe over 100% at this point and possibly on track to reach the levels seen right after WW2. |
For me, I wouldn't need medicaid if I could actually get a job that provided some health coverage. I lost all health coverage when I landed a contract job, and the employer rolled out something that would costg over $200 a month that wouldn't even meet the minimum standards Mass. required. And without medicaid, I would of never been able to get a procedure that enabled me to even me remotely employable. A clinic i was in didn't pay for anastesia (I had said this above). Because IBM is insistent on offshoring more and more, it is causing people to be without. And in an area built on IBM as an employer, the jobs didn't show up. I am plugging away at my end in may directions to try to change stuff.
There are issues involved here, that need to be addressed. But it ends up being more of a political football than anything else.
