Empathy
In a letter to an editor of Middletown’s Times Harold-Record, Debra Martino pleaded: “I am blessed to live in the greatest and wealthiest country in the world with some of the best medical minds. Yet, I am a middle-class citizen who has had a medical problem for the last four years and I can’t seem to get any help. In desperation, I tried to receive help from the state, and I was told I make ‘too much’ money. So I therefore would have to quit my job as a schoolbus driver or look for a job offering less pay to receive help from the state.”
In a letter to the Oneonta Daily Star, Jean Jones questioned: “Are you willing to give up your present health care for some pie-in-the-sky rationed Care?”
My answer is: Yes! This decision is made with full knowledge that, only our elected representatives in Congress may have better health care than I do. Empathy is my unpatriotic reason for suggesting such a socialistic program.
Setting aside emotions, it might be useful for rational Americans to consider the following facts:
Americans with above-average incomes find it more difficult than Europeans to get care on nights or weekends without going to an emergency room and many Americans with health insurance wait six days or more for an appointment with their doctors.
We need national health insurance, in order to lift the obligation off the back of General Motors and similar industry, so they can keep middle class jobs in America only then will GM be able to produce cars competitively.
Fourteen years ago, Hillary Clinton’s health care plan was removed from the agenda. Our government admits that because 47 million aren’t insured, we’ve had 18,000 people a year die in this country, because they don’t have health insurance. That’s six 9/11’s every single year. Not having universal healthcare for the pass 14 years has added up to an additional 252,000 Americans having died, because they didn’t have health insurance.
Americans continue to spend $2 trillion a year on health care, which is more than 15 percent of our GDP on health care. France spends about 11 percent, and Canadians 10 percent.
Spending more money does not equal better care, since both the French and Canadian systems rank in the top 10 of the world’s best healthcare systems, according to the World Health Organization. The United States comes in at number 37. The rankings are based on general health of the population, access, patient satisfaction and how the care is paid for.
In a letter to the Oneonta Daily Star, Jean Jones questioned: “Are you willing to give up your present health care for some pie-in-the-sky rationed Care?”
My answer is: Yes! This decision is made with full knowledge that, only our elected representatives in Congress may have better health care than I do. Empathy is my unpatriotic reason for suggesting such a socialistic program.
Setting aside emotions, it might be useful for rational Americans to consider the following facts:
Americans with above-average incomes find it more difficult than Europeans to get care on nights or weekends without going to an emergency room and many Americans with health insurance wait six days or more for an appointment with their doctors.
We need national health insurance, in order to lift the obligation off the back of General Motors and similar industry, so they can keep middle class jobs in America only then will GM be able to produce cars competitively.
Fourteen years ago, Hillary Clinton’s health care plan was removed from the agenda. Our government admits that because 47 million aren’t insured, we’ve had 18,000 people a year die in this country, because they don’t have health insurance. That’s six 9/11’s every single year. Not having universal healthcare for the pass 14 years has added up to an additional 252,000 Americans having died, because they didn’t have health insurance.
Americans continue to spend $2 trillion a year on health care, which is more than 15 percent of our GDP on health care. France spends about 11 percent, and Canadians 10 percent.
Spending more money does not equal better care, since both the French and Canadian systems rank in the top 10 of the world’s best healthcare systems, according to the World Health Organization. The United States comes in at number 37. The rankings are based on general health of the population, access, patient satisfaction and how the care is paid for.
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