Is Obama's health care plan an admission that the fed government actually damaged the system with its meddling?Obama wants to spend billions on health care with the goal of going back to how it was before we started spending billions health care.
From Yahoo! News:
(Full article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/0927b4138034173005)
"...reformers on both sides agree that general practitioners should be given a central role in uniting the fragmented U.S. medical system.
"This vision has a name: the 'patient-centered medical home.' The "home" is the office of a primary-care doctor where patients would go for most of their medical needs. The general practitioner would oversee everything from flu shots to chronic disease management to weight loss, and coordinate care with nurses, pharmacists, and specialists. A 2004 study estimated that if every patient had such a home, the resulting efficiencies might reduce U.S. health-care costs by 5.6%, a savings of $ 67 billion a year....
"...advocates say the new concept is designed to help patients, not insurers. It's more like doctoring 1950s-style, when a Marcus Welby figure handled all the family's medical needs. "
In other words, this plan (at least this aspect of the plan) is an admission that health care was better before the government got involved in the first place. After all, the feds did not get heavily involved in health care until 1964. And only after 1964 (and immediatly after 1964) did health care costs begin to skyrocket.
So if he wants to go back to how it was in the 50s, why not go back to how the Feds handled health care in the 50s, i.e., hands-off?
Posted by red thought @ level 3.
yes.
Anything done to correct a fault in any system is an acknowledgement the previous attempt was flawed.
Posted by sarge927
Yes it is. Anyone who has paid attention over the last 40-50 years realizes that the Federal Government has completely screwed up every social program it has gotten involved with. The costs for government-run programs are much higher than if the programs are managed by private-sector for-profit companies, and the programs are always mired in so much bureaucracy and red tape that they're rendered useless by the very people who are supposed to be helping private citizens. And people wonder why Club Fed is such a cash-cow...
P.S.: I had a general practitioner doctor that I went to for the first 22 years of my life, and there's no question in my mind that my health care was much less complicated (and much less expensive) back then...
Posted by Cindy
You might have a valid point. But it still doesn't address the extreme waste in Medicare and Medicaid. Not to mention the 45 million Americans that have no coverage. The working poor and more recently the working middle class. We all pay taxes that go to fund health care for government employees and people on Medicare and Medicaid. We are really not asking for a hand out, just a few options.
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