Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A Modest Prescription For Universal Health Care
Universal health care is going to be a hot item in the 2008 presidential race. Right now candidates are proposing everything from government-owned and operated clinics to free voodoo treatments. Everyone says their plan is swell. Let's put them to the test. Every new drug is tested for years before it hits the market. Let's do the same with national health care. Whatever plan is approved, apply it to elected officials only for a ten-year trial period. From the president down to the lowest-ranking member of congress, no more VIP care for this crowd. Make them go to government-run public health clinics and stand in line like everyine else for the type of care they deserve. You can bet that after ten minutes, congress will rethink the whole government-run health care plan. Then they'll do what they do best...exempt themselves and force the rest of us to deal with government-run health care while elected officials continue their lavish, tax-paid free health care at the world's finest facilities.
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one of the options in the Clinton health care plan is this...
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/
feature/healthcareplan/summary.aspx
The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive: Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu, established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program FEHBP).
that wouldn't change the health care for any federal employee, including the president and the congress.
You would think. But as soon as the Government offered prescription drug coverage, many seniors whose health plan covered their prescriptions, immediately ceased the coverage. If the government offers to pay health care, we are on the slippery slope.
But since the government manages everything else it does with such glowing efficiency, maybe government run healthcare is just what we need.
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