Health Care Needs Reforming

It sounds like a broken record, but if you have adequate health care you don’t have to change it.  Probably thousands, maybe millions of people have adequate health care.  On the other hand, millions don’t have adequate or any health care at all.  The frightening part is if you lose your job, you lose your health insurance.  Oh sure you may be able to pay for your own insurance, but it will cost you.  In fact, the older you are the more you’re going to pay.

If you’re not employed, health care becomes secondary to all the other expenses you have each month.  Many people end up in emergency rooms if they get sick and don’t have health insurance.  What else can you do if you can’t afford it.  If you are too young for Medicare and can’t  pay monthly premiums for heath coverage and get very sick, you’re up a creek without a paddle.  What is the solution?  How did we get in this mess in the first place?  If we can send astronauts to the moon and build a space station in outer space, we sure can do something to fix health care in the United States.

Is it just too much of a hot potato or too political.  The United States health care system is one of the worst among industrialized nations in the world.  You have those opposing the so called “socialized medicine” that Canada, France and other countries have.  It is health care basically run by the government.  In the Michael Moore film “Sicko”, the story was about health care.  Most of the people receiving health care in the film was provided by the government.  Even people from the U.S. were going to other countries taking advantage of government health care.

There are people living in the U.S. that travel to Mexico and Canada to get cheaper drugs, dental work and other services.  What is wrong with that?  If you don’t have health insurance and need treatment, government run health care would seem like a good idea.  Government should have a limited role in the health care system in the U.S.  However, private insurance companies have to step up and do something to make health care work for all who need it.  The drug companies certainly need to make drugs more affordable.  We as citizens and residents of the U.S.  need to do a better job of keeping ourselves healthier.   That would certainly bring down the costs and need for certain drugs and trips to the emergency room.