Health Care Insurance | A Metabolic Plan

Jul

30

The Health Care Crisis

Filed under: Health Care; Tagged as: Free Insurance, Health Care Costs, Health Care Crisis, Health Care Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Hospitals, Medical System, Private Insurance, Trillion

The health care reform issue is in the news constantly and hopefully we’re all paying attention. It doesn’t matter whether you are for or against the current legislation in front of congress. The fact is our lives, regarding health care, are about to change and we better get it right because it will not only affect us but our children and grandchildren. Now more than ever we need to be involved.

Outside of contacting your congressmen(and that’s important) what should we be doing. There are several things.

Take responsibility for your health. By taking responsibility you have a better chance of staying out of the medical system. That actually helps the sytem (and you).
It’s been said that if Americans returned to the weight we were in 1990, it would save our nation $1 trillion in health care costs. Make sure you’re eating properly to maintain your ideal weight.
Keep up with current information/research about supplements that can assist in prevention of various diseases.
Find out what’s in the bill – do you really know or even better, does your senator know? – after all the bill is 1200 pages.

I just listened to an interview of the Massachusetts’ State Treasurer – Massachusetts is the only state that has a public health care insurance. Here are some interesting comments by their Treasurer.

The State is $3B in the whole and costs are rising each year.
More people opted for the free insurance than the private insurance and so costs have escalated
The belief was that if people had the option of seeing a doctor for free they would not need the services of hospitals as often as they would seek help sooner. The opposite has happened and several hospitals are considering closing because they can’t get paid fast enough and can’t afford the influx of patients.
Massachusetts has more doctors per capita than any other State, however the wait to see a doctor is longer there than in most places.
The program is basically being subsidized by the wealthy. However it is the low income people who are most unhappy with the program – 62% say they are dissatisfied.

I don’t know what the similarities or differences are between the proposed national health care insurance and Massachusetts’ insurance. However wouldn’t it be nice to use some of their experience to develop our national insurance and maybe even try it on the State level first?

I don’t know the answers. I certainly have a lot of questions and the people doing the talking seem to vary widely on their opinions of what to do.

It would be nice if this issue was not so political. After all our health shouldn’t be a political issue – it’s too personal for that.

What are your thoughts?