I have to say that there may actually be some good progress in the health care debate. Eliminating expansion of medicare and medicaid are good steps away from socialization of medicine but it needs to go a little further. The mandate for individuals to buy insurance should be dropped. This is because one size does not fit all and what is good for one patient is not necessarily good for the next. Patients who lead healthy life styles and avoid risky activities ought to be able to enjoy health care cost savings that result from their choices. Patients who wish to be self insured for the first $10,000 or $20,000 should be allowed to purchase those kinds of policies and take those savings. Unfortunately the politicians wants everyone to have the same comprehensive policy which is to say bring everything and everyone down to the lowest common denoninator. This is good in that is helps those that need the help but it increases the costs for a lot of people who should be enjoying cost savings. If we, as individuals, are disconnected from the benifits of frugality and healthy choices costs will go up. We should be looking at ways to help those who need the help without reinventing our entire health care system and destroying what is good.

I take back all of the mean things that I said about the distributers of the vaccine. We will start calling patients today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what the senate has just voted to cut from the Medicare program over the next ten years. There are two questions that no one has asked or talked about but are very important. Who was the money going to and what was it paying for? Well, it was going to doctors and hospitals, not the mafia. It was to paying for medical care for the elderly, not for jets and girlfriends. The politicians call it fraud and abuse because there are rules against certian spending that doctors and hospitals are constantly finding ways around. The government and insurance companies have created giant beaurocracies who's number one purpose is to create rules that deny benefits. Make no mistake about it. This so called fraud and abuse spending is really paying for benefits for seniors. Every doctor in this country bends the "rules" in the interest of providing care for their patients. When a doctor reorders a lab test because he does not believe the results and he wants to confirm it he is committing fraud and abuse. Medicare says you cannot do this test twice in one month. When a hospital keeps a patient in the hospital for longer than the "allowed" stay because the doctors does not think that the patient is ready, Medicare says that both the hospital and doctor are committing fraud and abuse. It is tough taking care of seniors. For doctors and hospitals the rules just make it tougher. And now the govenment just wants to stomp on us into submission. This is change that you can believe everyone will regret.