Myth Busting Health Care from the Muckraking Montana Maven

Myth Busting Medical Care, Part One:
The voters spoke loud and clear, nationally, that one of the course changes they wanted was a workable and uncorrupted healthcare system. And they don’t want some band aid called “affordable health”. 62% of Americans want what 36 of the 37 industrialized nations
Single Payer Healthcare System (SPS) examined:
First of all, get over the insurance company scare tactics. This is not socialized medicine. That’s where the government owns the hospitals and pays the doctors. That’s the Veteran’s Administration, by the way i.e. socialized. Single payer is just that, a payment system. You can go to your own doctors and your own hospitals that are privately and hopefully non profit run and not by the government like in England. It’s like Germany has.

Which developed country is the ONLY one that does not have some form of healthcare for all its citizens aka universal health care? You got it. The United States. Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Taiwan, etc…etc…all have different ways of dealing with the way healthcare is administered, but all citizens are covered while we have 46 million uninsured. These uninsured raise our rates by using emergency rooms and not being part of the pool.

Which country pays more per person for healthcare on average ($6,280) than the average of any other developed country ($2,307)? Ta Da! The United States.

Who would you rather have handle your insurance claims; a bureaucrat in government who needs to make his boss look good to the voters or a bureaucrat in a for profit private insurance company whose primary function is to deny you your benefits i.e. make a profit for his boss?

Where would you like your insurance premium or tax money to go; to doctors, nurses, and medical equipment or to CEO pension funds, fancy corporate headquarters, advertising, and the salaries of those insurance folks trying to deny your benefits?

Which government program has an overhead of 2% while private insurers have an average overhead of 15%? Medicare.
With universal singer payer health care, people can work in jobs that they are qualified to do and enjoy, not working in jobs because they offer health insurance. Productivity would rise with healthy, less stressed and happier workers.

Healthcare is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy. What’s the sense of being an American if we don’t have the basic right of health that other developed nations have? This is just common sense and our elected representatives must make it a moral imperative.

Next time: How to pay for it? Possible answers: Get out of Iraq and use some of that 2 billion a week spent there, over here. In other words, use our tax money wisely. Even if we pay $2000 more a year in taxes, that would leave us $4000 left over from the $6000 we spend on insurance premiums.


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