Can someone please explain to me how medicare and medicaid are not the dreaded socialized medicine. It sure as hell looked like socialized medicine to me when I took my father to the doctor.
What amazed me about it was how well it worked. I was able to book an appointment with a doctor on the same day if we had wanted. The service was good. The doctor was professional. The rates were reasonable. What's the problem?
This reminds me of Australia. We had no issues at all with health care in Australia even though it was (spooky music) socialized medicine (ahhhh!!!) We always got seen right away. The doctors were well qualified and professional.
I think it's socialized medicine, it's income redistribution, it's everything the Republicans hate. So why don't they fight against it. Because blue hairs are a big constituency and they love Medicare. They've even conned themselves into believing that it's not socialized medicine.
Can we just fix this please? Can we finally get health care that is transportable between jobs? Health care that won't deny every claim? Health care that won't dump you like a hot potato when you actually get sick? Please?
And for the people who would deny us such health are (even though we are the wealthiest nation in the world) could you please come up with some type of better argument than universal health care being a stepping stone to communism. It's not. Every other civilized country in the world has it, and they aren't communists. You have been duped into this fear mongering about "commies" by talking heads who are in the pockets of the health insurance lobby. Think for yourself! Don't deny yourself decent medical care because Hannity likes to line his pockets with blood money.
Posted by jherr at June 25, 2008 09:13 AMYour dad must live in a medicare friendly area. Around here, there are only a select few doctors that accept medicare/medicaid/chips program dollars and even then, they only allow for so many appts per day. most doctors don't want to accept the medicare/caid program because of the paperwork required and the time for reimbursal from the government. Hospitals are just as bad.
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