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Post by POA on Apr 28, 2004 16:22:59 GMT -5
I'm starting this party platform development thread in order to discuss policy on health care.
One issue that's been mentioned is that if health care depends on the government, how do you prevent the government from hanging it over people's heads (I think Moses has mentioned this)?
At the same time, what's happening right now is that corporations are hanging health care over everyone's heads, both with the fact that coverage is dependent on employment status, and because of the fact that intermediaries that are more preoccupied with profit than quality-of-care (ie, the HMOs and insurance companies) largely seem to drive the system to the point where eventually virtually nobody is going to have any health care except for the wealthy.
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Post by spikeb on Apr 29, 2004 1:05:32 GMT -5
I think healthcare should be a universal right, and provided universally. What do you mean by "hanging over people's heads" ?
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Post by Ropegun on Apr 29, 2004 18:06:14 GMT -5
I was listening to NPR today and there was a story about how the U.S. spends more money than any other nation on healthcare, yet is ranked 37th worldwide in quality of care.
Seems like profits are more important than peoples health to me. Of course, thats not surprising in amerika.
Peace.
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Post by spikeb on May 2, 2004 1:50:24 GMT -5
Finally got my quesiton answered. I say that the best way to keep the government from holding healthcare over our heads is to force them, constitutionally, to be unable to do that.
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Post by Moses on May 2, 2004 2:33:50 GMT -5
Yes as everyone who has dealt w/ the government on SS or Vet Admin or other knows, the government will deny you that life-saving operation etc and your government will kill you. This is not good.
However, what people are finding out, is that the privitized version, the HMOs, are doing the same.
So now we need some new paradigms?
Someone posted or sent me info re: a group that had a contest to develop health care policy. I thought this sounded very exciting, because no special interest groups were involved, but people w/ various experience and expertise devised poliicies. But I can't recall where to find the info. Maybe RP was the source?
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Post by RPankn on May 2, 2004 4:22:01 GMT -5
Wasn't me.
The only policy I support is single-payer, universal healthcare because I don't even think we can screw around with the current profit-based system anymore. A lot of people that I know that were against universal healthcare are starting to warm up to it because they realize that on the current course, they won't have healthcare much longer. I would be interested, though, to see what this group came up with.
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