Is the Current HealthCare System Inhumane?
As employer provided coverage continues to decline, and more people are forced to find individual policies, the number of uninsured Americans continues to increase. Individual policies are often hard to come by, as these companies are more interested in turning a profit than providing coverage for everyone. This leaves people with preexisting conditions out of luck. Even some insurance company higher-ups find the methods inhumane, but the bottom line remains the top priority. Some people feel that universal health care is the only solution to this growing problem. Read more here. What do you think about univeral health care?
October 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Lets see if Cover Florida in 2009 is the right way to go.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It would be nice to have everyone get adequate coverage.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Something HAS to work. People need coverage period. Preexisting conditions or not. Let’s cross our fingers for Cover Florida.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Some employers just can’t afford health insurance coverage in order to stay in business and people need to ask themselves what is more important, having a job or having health insurance? It is unfortunate this is even an issue but that is the way life is now.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
The entire system is inhumane. Relying on answers or solutions from the government isn’t going to work. As it is now, on many governmental plans, you can be droppped from coverage just like that. If thats how governmental insurance is now, why would anyone believe Universal Healthcare would be the answer.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
Yes it is inhumane. Both as regards preexisting conditions and affordability.
With regard to the latter the article states “Between 2002 and 2007, premiums rose 78%, outpacing inflation (17%) and wages (19%). In the individual market, without an employer’s subsidy, consumers bear the full cost of coverage.”
As regards the former, all insurers “manage” their own “risk pool”, as they are not conciously in a “not-for-profit business. Requiring them to do otherwise is like mandating that MacDonalds sell only geiko burgers.
To go “universal” is frought with complications all around: consumers, employers, insurance companies, health providers, state regulators, drug companies, the varied health industry lobbies etc. It is really as mess and millions of our fellow citizens are falling through the cracks.
NO EASY SOLUTION and all I’ve seen out of our politicians are bandaides. Meanwhile people are suffering and dying.