Starting an Activist group to help reform Healthcare! :)?

Question

I have started an activist group that has a primary focus of striving to reform healthcare one stepping stone at a time. Our goal is to find that happy medium between Universal Healthcare and what exists of our system today. Millions of people die every year because they are uninsured and millions are dropped from their insurance companies every year as an escape mechanism. Insurance companies actually reward their employees if they deny someone of health coverage for a particular for a particular claim in their time of need while there are more laws protecting the insurance companies themselves than the consumer. It is a sad day when the government can be bought for the lesser good of its economy and its health! Please share your opinions! I would love for anyone interested in this cause to join this expanding activist group, just email me at [e-mail] and an email will be delievered out promptly detailing our platform and and list of events in your community.

Answer 1

If you want to fix health care go to Africa or SE Asia and try there. The USA has the best health care in the whole world. I should know. Three heart surgeries in three years, Diabetic, kidney stones, and asthma and I am self Pay. Bugger off and leave my health care alone. Is that plain enough?????????????

Answer 2

Great idea, but go after the doctors who charge way too much, the drug companies who are ripping us off, the lawyers who represent bad cases and the individual who feels financially killing a hospital we keep costs down. Start there you will be shocked what you find. Good luck.

Answer 3

mandi,

   Good idea!  I'm really frustrated by the lack of REAL discussion (rather than name-calling) around this issue.  I think a lot of issues have to be addressed and bandied about:  Is our current system really “broken,” or can it be improved by small changes?  Is there a way to divorce health care from employment so that, for example, it is easier to change jobs or to work part-time?   Is it actually a good idea to disperse income in the form of universal health care?  If we decide it is, who will be eligible?  What will we do about the people coming over the borders every day?  Will we cover them?  Can we afford to cover them?  Can we afford to cover the probable future immigrants?  What kind of care will be covered?  Will what is commonly considered “alternative” care be covered?  Massage therapists?  Physical trainers?  Physical therapists?  Who should decide what is an effective treatment?  Who should decide what will and won’t be covered?  Can we afford to provide top-of-the-line, highly technological care to everyone?  Should anyone get highly technological care?  If we decide that we can’t, will the lack of interest in high-tech care kill off or slow down medical innovation?  Do we care if it does?   Is there some way we can let each individual patient decide how to spend his/her healthcare dollars?  What other countries have systems we can look at?  I’ve heard that Taiwan has an interesting system, but I don’t know much about it.  I’ve lived with the German system, and we always hear about the Canadian, British, and French systems.  What problems do they have?  Could they exist as they do if they didn’t have U.S.-driven research and technology to learn from?  Anyway, I think discussing the issues would be a great start.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It is good to see that you are interested in reforming healthcare but I do not see that as the root issue.  I think if more people accepted death then heathcare would be obsolete.  I am not talking about not taking a penicillin shot but I am talking about people draining the system for a cure for cancer.

Someone should have put Coasty out of his misery a long time ago.