Right now i have Medi-Cal, because honestly we can't afford to get anything else. And it works perfectly fine for us, oh; it's also a government type ran healthcare system. Once our Medi-Cal approval time has ran it's course;which it will, i will but utterly FUCKED. No insurer in their right mind will accept me, Why? Because of their Pre-exsisting Conditions Clause. My Heart Problem and my Nervous System Problem both qualify as Pre-Exsisting Conditions, and if i'm not treated i'm dead. Tell me what else am i supposed to do?! Oh Yeah, i guess i'm not good enough because i'm poor.'
People also bitch because they are paranoid that all these Illegal Immigrants are going to be using the Free National Healthcare that The THEMSELVES are NOT paying into. Well NEWS FLASH!! They use it as it is already. It's called the ER, or the Free Clinic. Then there are the others that believe in all this hype that government will be able to say 'yay or nay' over treatment. Well insurance companies ALREADY do that, so what's the big deal? I really try not to be Politically biased since i'm very liberal, but i am so irritated with all these republicans going insane over this, INSANE!!! They try to say that the liberal community is unruly, look at how they've been reacting all week since the bill was signed into law. Smashing Windows?!.....Making Death Threats?!.....oh, yeah; they're definitely the bigger person. And then because they truly don't believe in a democracy thy want to Sue the President and the Federal Government because they don't agree. Get over it. It passed. Try to repeal it. Deal with it, And most importantly grow up and accept it. Because last time i knew, this was still America.
Yes, America. Just because you don't want to open your eyes and realize that healthcare reform is a MUST, doesn't mean we are turning into a Socialist or Communist Country. They say that this is unnecessary spending. But so is the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS wasted this past century looking for a man in a cave and blowing up two different countries because 10 jackasses high jacked some planes!
We wouldn't be in sooo much fucking debt to the world if the previous government 'rulers' wouldn't have wasted it all during their 8 years in control and brainwashing. Yes, control and brainwashing. Bush gave out stimulous checks because he KNEW we had no money, and what the hell; he'd be out of office in less than a year anyways. His idiocracy in believing that people were going to use that money to better the ecomony and go shopping over paying off their bills is a ridiculous.
Heathcare Reform will cost money, but we need to quit looking at the negative aspects of what it's done in other countries and look at the positive. check this out:
does that answer the paranoia of us becoming socialists? If not. Read on.Is national health insurance ‘socialized medicine’?
No. Socialized medicine is a system in which doctors and hospitals work for and draw salaries from the government. Doctors in the Veterans Administration and the Armed Services are paid this way. The health systems in Great Britain and Spain are other examples. But in most European countries, Canada, Australia and Japan they have socialized health insurance, not socialized medicine. The government pays for care that is delivered in the private (mostly not-for-profit) sector. This is similar to how Medicare works in this country. Doctors are in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis from government funds. The government does not own or manage medical practices or hospitals.
The term socialized medicine is often used to conjure up images of government bureaucratic interference in medical care. That does not describe what happens in countries with national health insurance where doctors and patients often have more clinical freedom than in the U.S., where bureaucrats attempt to direct care.
You and your doctor still work like always, the only difference is that now EVERY CITIZEN can get care.
Who will run the health care system?
There is a myth that with national health insurance the government will make the medical decisions. But in a publicly financed, universal health care system, medical decisions are left to the patient and doctor, as they should be. This is true even in the countries like the U.K. and Spain (or in U.S. systems like the VA) that have socialized medicine.
In a public system, the public has a say in how it’s run. Cost containment measures are publicly managed at the state level by elected and appointed agencies that represent the public. This agency decides on the benefit package and negotiates doctor fees and hospital budgets. It also is responsible for health planning and the distribution of expensive technology. Thus, the total budget for health care is set through a public, democratic process. But clinical decisions remain a private matter between doctor and patient.
I have had medi-cal for going on 4 years now, since i had my son and got dropped from my fathers insurance. That is essentially National Healthcare. Healthcare initialized by the government and it has treated us just as fine as the private sector i used to belong to. True there were a few hurdles, because there are sometime shitty doctors and shitty clinics. But that's not because it was government ran. That's because those doctors and clinics were cheap or didn't care. Yes i have had to wait for tests before, but never ever denied. However i blame the wait being on the size of the hospital/clinic not so much because i have/had Medi-Cal. National healthcare has worked wonders in so many other countries like England,Norway,Japan and Spain.
There are always the bad to go with the good. I just want everybody to know that A LOT of this rubbish that we hear on the Fox, CBS; or whatever it is we watch for 'NEWS' is going to be somewhat biased. I know of so many people that don't receive care by general American Physicians. They travel to other countries to get procedures done, i'm not talking Canada Here, like Europe and Asia. Why? Because they are denied coverage here their OWN COUNTRY. A Good doctor is a good doctor. Regardless of where they are being seen. People don't become doctors to be douche bags. People need to wake up and quit being spoon fed by the news and by word bending politicians to further their own agendas. Be your own person. If we don't have healthcare reform, how many people are going to be around alive to debate it? Not I, because sadly without this reform, once i am unable to recieve Medi-Cal i will have NO INSURANCE all because of a health issue at birth. Thanks for trying to kill the older me because of your uneducated selves.
