Daniel Costello and Abigail Goldman wrote an article about calls for healthcare reform:
An unusual new coalition of big employers, labor unions and politicians united Wednesday to push for “quality, affordable” healthcare for all Americans by 2012.
The proposal adds to growing pressure on Congress, President Bush and statehouses across America where governors including California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger are calling for a major overhaul of health insurance coverage.
The idea united some bitter adversaries Wednesday and indicates that there is business support for change.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, joined with one of its biggest critics, the Service Employees International Union.
There are currently 47 million uninsured in the U.S. and that number is rising by more than a million people a year. As health costs have almost doubled in the last seven years, many workers have seen most if not all of their pay raises go toward rising healthcare premiums.
Read entire Times article by Daniel Costello and Abigail Goldman.
With 47 million uninsured Americans and devastatingly high healthcare costs, we need to make drastic changes and reforms to our healthcare system. However, I do not think government-funded national healthcare can solve the problem. The inherent inefficiency and dishonesty of government means that federalizing healthcare can only make matters worse overall. We cannot afford to put the same people running the inefficient DMV in charge of our healthcare.
Additionally, Wal-Mart supports national healthcare simply because they want taxpayers to pay for Wal-Mart’s employees’ healthcare, instead of Wal-Mart.
Instead, we need to make companies like Wal-Mart pay their employees enough to afford healthcare and insurance. We can do this through non-governmental worker’s unions. Further, we need to create our own community-based health insurance organizations, instead of doing business with mega-corporations and the con-men who own them.
We cannot trust the corrupt and deceitful government. Instead, we need to use voluntary solidarity to create non-governmental organizations that actually address our problems and concerns effectively – truly by the people and for the people.
What do you think?
In addition, the consolidation of paperwork and warehousing of durable goods brought in bulk, ie. pharm products, bedpans, iv products etc would save millions if not billions of dollars. see physicians for healthcare reform.
basic healthcare is a right! americans should not have to chose between seeing a doctor for preventative care (annual checkups) vs. paying a bill. many diseases, caught in the early stages are curable…left alone and undiagnosed, deadly, which in turn increases the burden on the system.