Freedom of Choice is Still Ours
How would you like to be working at a fast food restaurant one week, marry your co-host who’s working thru Med school and four years later build an 8000 square foot house!
Yep! Fall in love and marry your Doctor! The average Journalist or teacher even with a masters or doctorate may make only $20,000 to $40,000 a year compared to a doctor at $200,000 to $400,00 a year.
Of course, there are 35,000,000 persons in the U.S. who cannot afford health care, so the doctors are fighting off Universal Health programs because some doctors have never heard of self-discipline. However they could be forced to be disciplined by U.S. citizens who have lost patience with doctor’s prices.
Must we simply streamline our system to have capable health care? Of course if Universal Health care were the perfect answer, why the Detroit hospitals filled with Canadians who do have national health care.
Have they concentrated on making better choices among health care, finding their own to be marginally capable where here we Dare to Excel in health care. But what good is the best if many cannot take advantage of it?
A friend fearing a heart attack had an emergency trip to the hospital. It turned out to be ‘heart-burn’. The x-rays showed he had a spot on his lungs and was advised to “Go to his specialist.” Worrying about the $1,000 bill he’d run up in the emergency room, he walked out and remarked, “Well, that’s the end of that.” I don’t have a specialist and couldn’t afford to go if I did. My company offers health care but I can’t pay my part. I’m barely paying rent and groceries now. My pain is manageable, I’ll wait.”
Like millions who’re working, he’s doing the best he can. The temptation is understandable to “put it out of your mind.” The trouble is that unthinking persons cannot choose, but must let others choose for them. But to fail to make ones own choices…whether finding a health care solution or electing a president—is to betray the freedom which is one of God’s great gifts to us all.
In the last session of Congress, the “Jackson” coalition had submitted a bill that would guarantee welfare recipients $7,500 cash plus free medical care. Congress said they didn’t have the money to pay for it so you would pay for it by requiring $250 tax per person in business. Then the mandated health benefits, A Kennedy bill, required $2,500 tax per full time employee per year. Lobbying by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce defeated both Universal health care may have some unexpected market impact. “In a study of physicians 55 and older by Merritt, Hawkins and Association, an Irving, Texas, search firm, 50 percent of doctors surveyed (roughly 29%) said that if universal health care became a reality, they would retire immediately or step up their move toward retirement.” They say there would be too much paperwork. Universal-health-care proponent, John Rother, American Association of Retired Persons legislative director, argues that this concern ‘is unjustified and that such reform would make doctors’ lives easier.”
It may turn out that no mass exodus of older physicians actually occurs even if universal health care is enacted.
The medical profession has hardly lost its appeal. The institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California at San Francisco reports that by the year 2000 the number of U.S. physicians per capita will have risen 22 percent above 1986 levels-that there will be 17 doctors for every 100,000 residents, up from 144 in1986.
We can find a health care solution, where the doctors are rewarded for their 12 additional years of schooling and dedication to humanity. People can get a health care plan that’s paid for on a scale of income.
We can get the money by:
1: Not forgiving so many foreign debts, like the $9 billions we forgave Egypt for last
year.
2: Reducing social programs like the National Endowment of the Arts is now able
again to receive money for “a nude woman covered in chocolate and parsley.”
3: Doctor’s could reduce fees! My philosophy is that no one segment of the
community should lord it over his neighbors.
Managers are turning to “Loving Management”; can’t we also turn to loving our neighbors as ourselves, as it states in the Bible in Leviticus 19:18.
A change in the way we’ve been looking at health care is necessary. One based on love for each other not just how much money can be charged to our fellow man. Like a society, which is required to be rebuilt as we saw in our Slavic neighbors, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. Paraphrasing John Stuart Mills’s philosophy, “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the basic way of thinking”.
This change can be built on love and caring for all neighbors.
It’s POSSIBLE!
How would you like to be working at a fast food restaurant one week, marry your co-host who’s working thru Med school and four years later build an 8000 square foot house!
Yep! Fall in love and marry your Doctor! The average Journalist or teacher even with a masters or doctorate may make only $20,000 to $40,000 a year compared to a doctor at $200,000 to $400,00 a year.
Of course, there are 35,000,000 persons in the U.S. who cannot afford health care, so the doctors are fighting off Universal Health programs because some doctors have never heard of self-discipline. However they could be forced to be disciplined by U.S. citizens who have lost patience with doctor’s prices.
Must we simply streamline our system to have capable health care? Of course if Universal Health care were the perfect answer, why the Detroit hospitals filled with Canadians who do have national health care.
Have they concentrated on making better choices among health care, finding their own to be marginally capable where here we Dare to Excel in health care. But what good is the best if many cannot take advantage of it?
A friend fearing a heart attack had an emergency trip to the hospital. It turned out to be ‘heart-burn’. The x-rays showed he had a spot on his lungs and was advised to “Go to his specialist.” Worrying about the $1,000 bill he’d run up in the emergency room, he walked out and remarked, “Well, that’s the end of that.” I don’t have a specialist and couldn’t afford to go if I did. My company offers health care but I can’t pay my part. I’m barely paying rent and groceries now. My pain is manageable, I’ll wait.”
Like millions who’re working, he’s doing the best he can. The temptation is understandable to “put it out of your mind.” The trouble is that unthinking persons cannot choose, but must let others choose for them. But to fail to make ones own choices…whether finding a health care solution or electing a president—is to betray the freedom which is one of God’s great gifts to us all.
In the last session of Congress, the “Jackson” coalition had submitted a bill that would guarantee welfare recipients $7,500 cash plus free medical care. Congress said they didn’t have the money to pay for it so you would pay for it by requiring $250 tax per person in business. Then the mandated health benefits, A Kennedy bill, required $2,500 tax per full time employee per year. Lobbying by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce defeated both Universal health care may have some unexpected market impact. “In a study of physicians 55 and older by Merritt, Hawkins and Association, an Irving, Texas, search firm, 50 percent of doctors surveyed (roughly 29%) said that if universal health care became a reality, they would retire immediately or step up their move toward retirement.” They say there would be too much paperwork. Universal-health-care proponent, John Rother, American Association of Retired Persons legislative director, argues that this concern ‘is unjustified and that such reform would make doctors’ lives easier.”
It may turn out that no mass exodus of older physicians actually occurs even if universal health care is enacted.
The medical profession has hardly lost its appeal. The institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California at San Francisco reports that by the year 2000 the number of U.S. physicians per capita will have risen 22 percent above 1986 levels-that there will be 17 doctors for every 100,000 residents, up from 144 in1986.
We can find a health care solution, where the doctors are rewarded for their 12 additional years of schooling and dedication to humanity. People can get a health care plan that’s paid for on a scale of income.
We can get the money by:
1: Not forgiving so many foreign debts, like the $9 billions we forgave Egypt for last
year.
2: Reducing social programs like the National Endowment of the Arts is now able
again to receive money for “a nude woman covered in chocolate and parsley.”
3: Doctor’s could reduce fees! My philosophy is that no one segment of the
community should lord it over his neighbors.
Managers are turning to “Loving Management”; can’t we also turn to loving our neighbors as ourselves, as it states in the Bible in Leviticus 19:18.
A change in the way we’ve been looking at health care is necessary. One based on love for each other not just how much money can be charged to our fellow man. Like a society, which is required to be rebuilt as we saw in our Slavic neighbors, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. Paraphrasing John Stuart Mills’s philosophy, “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the basic way of thinking”.
This change can be built on love and caring for all neighbors.
It’s POSSIBLE!
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