Currently we have many people with no insurance visiting E.R.s and driving the cost up for everyone else. My plan puts a stop to this with a fairly basic solution.
Currently when you enter the ER you are checked in and wait for the next available Dr. What if at the check in desk, the nurse at the door directs you to either a low cost clinic or if you need emergency care an ER bed. A common entrance to both facilities will give the decision to trained professionals.
This would shift unpaid bills from expensive emergency rooms to low cost clinics.
The current legislation mandates all citizens get health care. If we instead offered a base health system to all citizens people could just continue to do nothing. Now this universal socialized medicine would be preventative only. There would be no choice in doctors. Only approved by doctors and debated by congress procedures would be available. It will be the cheapest lowest coverage health care available.
When you go to your clinic, if you haven't been in a year, you will have preventative tests run and you will be informed of the results. It will then be your responsibility to take the information and change your lifestyle accordingly.
If you don't change your lifestyle and you develop diabetes that is tough cookies unless...........
You make enough money to buy health insurance on your own. Or if you work at an employer that provides you with insurance. If you pay for your own insurance then you can live by the rules written by you your insurance provide and your state or federal regulator.
So thats my plan. It is socialized medicine. But it is not big socialized medicine. Every other industrialized country has Universal Health Care for all their citizens. They also have debt to GDP ratios double America's This seems to be a plan that could show our compassion for fellow Americans and do it in an Economically viable way.
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You have to be careful with asking people to do as they are told when it comes to their health. Some can try and try and not succeed. Others can not try at all. Should both be denied health insurance? Also, at what point do companies just make employees take tests every year and if you have diabetes or are overweight (which about 60% of Americans are) or you smoke then they will not employ you anymore. The word socialized medicine has been distorted by the media. George W. Bush's plan of letting them go to the ER has never worked but if you get technical that's socialized medicine because we paid for it. The difference is we had no control over it. At least with a plan we will understand exactly how much of our tax dollars are paying for the uninsured. And in today's economy with an unemployment rate of 10.6% that could be any one of us that's uninsured. Someone has to do something about the way insurance companies are raping the citizens with health care costs. I saw a chart the other day that showed if our wages continue at the slow pace they are going and the health care system continues at the huge rate it's going, in the year 2020 our healthcare will cost 100% of our wages. Stop the madness!
As far as expecting people to do as their told I assume they will not but it is their decision. This way they have every opportunity a health care they dont pay for can afford.
It would make me feel like I tried if we paid for the preventative medicine for everyone. Then it is up to them to either make lifestyle changes or buy more insurance.
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