What's the deal with health care reform?
In January, Obama laid out an economic stimulus plan that puts health care as a cornerstone of financial growth and recovery. Throughout his campaign Obama promised to expand access to health insurance, in an effort to reform our health care. It seems that despite a troubled economy he is resolved to keep his promise
But at what cost? Can our country really afford universal health care? Are we really desiring the government a.k.a big brother, to tell us which doctors we can or cannot see? Are we ready to receive a lette informing us that the medical procedure we need is not available due to the ever increasing deficit? Or because of a shortage of not just specialists but doctors.
Being in the medical profession is sought out not only for the nobility of those who desire to help others but because of the lifestyle and social status it provides. When these rewards are reduced to mere accolades of charity, who will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for years of study to do and earn only what the government says you can?
But that alone is not as bad as the universal health plan in Britain where the peoples health is in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats. According to Britains head of Healthcare Commission, their citizens find themselves to be of low priority, exposed to poor healthcare, knife crime and sexually transmitted diseases.
Canadians keep sending heart attack or other cardiac emergencies to the United States because no hospital can provide the lifesaving care they require here. Most of the heart patients who have been sent south since 2003 typically show up in Ontario hospitals, where they are given clot-busting drugs. If those drugs fail to open their clogged arteries, the scramble to locate angioplasty in the United States begins.
So, once their refuge is gone, and Canadians can't find help in the U.S. because we have adopted the same admitted failed system they have, should we give them our doctors phone number in Mexico?
Yes, health care needs reform. But universal health care is not the answer. An easy fix always ends up breaking very fast.
Health care, its' access and excellence should react to market pressure. In other words, competition in a free market will increase the quality of health care and drive down the cost of it to.
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