Thursday, July 23, 2009

Demand our Voices are heard

Demand our Voices are heard
By Robert G Parent

I want to talk about health care and the talk of health care going on in today's media. The conservative media are talking down the Obama health care plan and not talking about any other plan to replace the Obama health care plan. Now, I do believe that the Obama health care plan is and will be bad for this country, for the reasons that Conservatives talk about on their shows ( costs too much and decreasing competition or choice ) but also no one is addresses the real reasons for the current health care problems. The real reason that we have problems in health care are the cost. How much does it cost for a MRI, an X-ray, or any other medical test that our doctors say we need. Now that is also the other reason why we have problems in health care, the price of a doctor's visit. My last doctor charged $100 per visit to those without insurance, if I had insurance the doctor's visit would be $20. Doctor's are pricing their services for insurance not for the free market. If they couldn't get any insurance money, they would have to price their services based on a fair market price, which would be lower then the $100 or more that they charge. But why do doctors charge so much for their services? To answer that question look to see how much it cost to be a doctor or nurse. No one is coming up with solutions because no one sees what or where are the problems of health care. If you can define a problem, you will find the solution.

Some possible solutions to the health care problem. First make insurance what it was originally created for, emergences. And when we need to go to the emergence room, it will be for an emergence. Solution two doctors offices. What if doctors started charging for their services as a subscription price. This means that the people will go to the doctor they want to go and their doctor will charge a monthly subscription fee. Once someone pays the month's price, then all the services the doctor offers will be free ( included in the monthly fee ). Doctor's could even be competitive and base this fee on income, like five percent. If people make more they pay more. If people make less they pay less. Everyone gets health care at an affordable price. Solution three medical schools. Why can't people attend on-line courses and do their clinicals at a nursing home or hospital. The nursing homes and hospitals could even charge for this giving them another source of income. How could we get doctors and schools adopt these ideas? We could offer them incentives and offering an incentive is better then forcing people to change. Wise people today and of history have said that to force people to do good is the greatest evil.

My hope for this article is to get people ( democrats, conservatives, and those of us in between ) to think in solutions. The solutions that I offer may not be the solutions the people choose to make, but they are a start to a common dialog that we the people of the United States can do and take to our politicians and give the change that we want – a fair system for all. Feel free to share this article to all those you know. Express your own ideas. Blog about the ideas put your comments in the comments section. Speak out America. Can we work together to give us something from the government that we want. Demand debate. Demand our voices are heard. We know what makes this country great – the people.

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