Health Care Solution

September 15, 2009 · Posted in Health, Not Funny, Politics · Comment 

Finding a real health care solution can be a lot easier then congress is making it out to be.  If our congress members and senators will refrain from their own need for power and keep the well being of people of the United States as their main priority, a health care solution can be easily formulated, implemented and attained.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the U.S. labor force for August is about 155,000,000 with about 15,000,000 of us being unemployed (9.7%).

With the exception of the health care industry, all job sectors are either declining or indicating little change:

  • Health care added 28,000 jobs
  • Construction is down 65,000 jobs
  • Manufacturing is down 63,000 jobs
  • Finance is down 28,000 jobs
  • Wholesale Trade is down 17,000 jobs
  • Retail indicates little change
  • Transportation indicates little change
  • Warehousing indicates little change

With health care being the only industry adding jobs on a regular basis, why is our government wanting to put their dirty figures into it?  The answer is simple…Power.

Now we all know that our current health care system is riddled with fraud, inefficiencies, poor management, waste and inflated prices.  It also does not insure all Americans who want to be insured.

Let’s look at how many Americans are actually uninsured.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau 46,000,000 people in America are without health care insurance.  This is the number that you will hear about in the media and it is 18% of the population under age 65. There is a strong opposition to these numbers that make a good case for their inflation.

According to Julia A. Seymour at the Business Media Institute the actual number of uninsured may be as low as 8.2 mil.  If this argument is valid, then why are we looking to change an entire industry and implement a universal health care program?

Health Care Solution

According to President Obama, he wants to insure every American, lower the cost of health care and increase competition by health care providers.

Let’s take a look at some reasonable and easy to implement solutions that can provide insurance to everyone who wants it, lower the overall costs of health insurance premiums and increase competition.

  1. Any uninsured American who wants health care can be enrolled into the existing Medicaid program at minimal cost.   This can happen immediately!
  2. The cost of health care insurance can be reduced by providing a tax deduction for all heal care insurance premiums.  The savings will be about 30% per tax payer and can be implemented immediately.
  3. Competition between health care insurance companies is only limited by current laws that prohibit these insurance companies from selling policies outside of the jurisdiction of each state.  Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to change this law then revamp the entire health care industry?

I am not a lawyer or employed by the heath care or insurance industry.  I am simply a concerned U.S. citizen who is witnessing a government take over of the fastest growing industry in the country.  Everybody knows that the opposite of Progress is Congress so for anyone looking to take a massive step backward and wants out government to take over something of this magnitude will need to rethink their support.

Don’t believe everything you hear on TV and read in newspapers and magazines.  Do your own research as I did, listen to both sides and make an educated decision.  We are Americans and are proud of our country and do not want it to move one inch closer to becoming a socialist society.

Here is the TRUE health care question.

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