Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sicko and Universal Healthcare Article

In the movie Sicko Michael Moore shows us what insurance companies are doing to the people who really need medical procedures done yet are being denied the coverage for the procedures. The insurance companies are quite literally getting away with murder there is a problem when someone gets denied care when they desperately need it. He also sheds light on the way healthcare works in other countries, and how well people get treated and efficient the system works. Insurance companies have to turn the people away because they have to answer to the stockholders, because treating people costs money and the insurance companies lose money by doing so. Doctors also get paid in the other countries as opposed to insurance companies refusing to pay.
In the article Other Conservative Problems with Voluntary Insurance talks about how people are cheating on their insurance companies and what they are getting away with. People are taking unnecessary rides in ambulances to the hospitals, and getting money they should not be. It also sheds light on hoe high deductibles are becoming, that when someone has a problem the will hike up the rates quite a bit, to the point it causes people not to be able to afford their insurance anymore. Maybe the reason that the insurance companies got so out of hand by too many cheating the article suggests or they are too focused on their stockholders.
I think that universal healthcare will benefit the public so they can stop worrying about being able to afford health care and the doctors will be paid on time but there is still a lot of kinks to work out before that is ready to go, also the general public will need to be willing to pay the much higher taxes. Universal health care will keep unnecessary spending on health care under control. People will not be able cheat insurance companies both health care recipients and the doctors, it cuts out unnecessary institutions. Maybe then congress will be controlled by people other than the insurance company lobbyist, then Washington can look into alternatives for healthcare.

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