Thursday, August 28, 2008

ENSLAVED BY MONEY I

Read this article on health insurance and the middle class...
Most of the uninsured are suffering, because they do not contribute enough in terms of jobs or profits to deserve health insurance in the first place. Even those that do, they still have to pay some of the expenses out of their own pockets. Is it difficult to figure out why? Considering that even the "middle-class" is suffering or in other words the majority of American people, there seems to be at least one formula that needs to be eliminated.
This is Scott Hauge, president and owner of a San Francisco insurance brokerage firm:"A lot of small businesses can't afford the insurance premiums and still want to cover major catastrophes," he says. "But everybody is looking at how they can reduce their costs."
This is what casting director says:"My mother works for the post office and has the best health insurance""But my father's costs came in at $150,000 -- and they covered just $120,000. So the insurance company picked up a huge portion of it, but they still have a $30,000 bill, which they're paying from retirement funds."
In other words the value of money is more important than the value of human life in some people's minds. Ultimately, small businesses or big corporations exist in the environment where the goal is to maximize profits and minimize costs. This can be understood but should not be accepted. There is no perfect national healthcare system. We've heard about the higher taxes (we'll cover that), long lines, low wages in hospitals, lack of options, government control, and the transition might not be easy. However, the ideology of universal healthcare is still going to be stronger since it's the one that seeks to eliminate influence of money on people regardless in what or what kind of spectrum they exist.

1 comment:

Jenn Evans said...

It seems that healthcare is a little more complex in that you've got to include the rising costs of the "services" such as $20 for an aspirin. In our free market healthcare system, who should determine the price of human life? My health insurance goes up exponentially each year and I have a healthy family.