Thread: America Rising

As far as health care goes. Our country is bankrupt. We are borrowing around a billion dollars a day from China. We are losing jobs at a record rate. How on earth does the government plan on paying for this? I have no more to give. Sooner or later you have to pull your head out of the sand and get real.

Originally Posted by Miner123

As far as health care goes. Our country is bankrupt. We are borrowing around a billion dollars a day from China. We are losing jobs at a record rate. How on earth does the government plan on paying for this? I have no more to give. Sooner or later you have to pull your head out of the sand and get real.

I agree that the government is involved in many areas where it doesn't belong and that taxes are too high in general, but if we lift the burden of the $13,000 the average family health plan costs from the insured and their employer (employers can hire more people if they have reduced health care costs), and use a portion of it to fund a government health plan(administered by the private sector), we will ultimately save money. I've seen estimates that in 10 years the avg. cost of a family plan will be $24,000. We simply can't sustain the current system. Health care is one place the government does belong. The Medicare system could be better run, but it still provides pretty decent care for less money than the private plans.

We also need to revamp the delivery model of care. For example, there are too many providers of services in some pleaces and too few in others. When a hospital closes, everybody screams bloody murder because they want a hospital in their community, but they don't want to pay into the system to keep it open. We have too many MRI machines, and this drives their usage. All of this needs to be addressed. We have painful choices to make, but nobody has the political will to push them forward.

Jordan