Healthcare Change

[darknight1]

So I was reading survivor stories on the National Necrotizing Fascisstis Foundation's website earlier (http://www.nnff.org), and read quite a few accounts detailing how many individuals who were struck by necrotizing fascisstis (or more commonly referred to as the "flesh eating bacteria") lost muscle tissue, skin, and in some cases entire limbs. Many endured months, if not years, of physical rehabilitation, dozens upon dozens of surgeries, and some today have to live with access to help 24/7. Many mention having bills over $100,000 or higher from not only insurance companies but also doctors and hospitals. In one case, a woman who lost part of her arm and both legs to this bacteria has a bill of over $1 million just from all the surgeries done, prosthetics and rehab for many different things resulting from her catching this bacteria. Both her and her parents are reduced almost to being on the streets because of the massive charge for this bill, and just realizing how many individuals out there are hurting financially thanks to this bacteria entering their bodies and leaving them disfigured after all of the ensuing treatment by doctors...I've come to the conclusion that I have simply had enough of these rich vultures pushing numerous people into poverty without having an ounce of compassion for what they have to endure while recovering from having this type of disease do untold damage to them both physically and mentally. I have had it with these vultures making matters worse by demanding these people pay as much as possible in return for having their lives saved. I'm formally asking that whoever reads this, regardless of political affiliation, contact their congressional representative or senators and demand that a universal healthcare system that is as cost-free as possible be instituted in this country. There's no excuse for it not to happen - if our nation's allies in the west can afford to have such a healthcare system in which all benefit from it and pay next to nothing for treatment, then the United States can do the same. It must be done...it must.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

So I was reading survivor stories on the National Necrotizing Fascisstis Foundation's website earlier (http://www.nnff.org), and read quite a few accounts detailing how many individuals who were struck by necrotizing fascisstis (or more commonly referred to as the "flesh eating bacteria") lost muscle tissue, skin, and in some cases entire limbs. Many endured months, if not years, of physical rehabilitation, dozens upon dozens of surgeries, and some today have to live with access to help 24/7. Many mention having bills over $100,000 or higher from not only insurance companies but also doctors and hospitals. In one case, a woman who lost part of her arm and both legs to this bacteria has a bill of over $1 million just from all the surgeries done, prosthetics and rehab for many different things resulting from her catching this bacteria. Both her and her parents are reduced almost to being on the streets because of the massive charge for this bill, and just realizing how many individuals out there are hurting financially thanks to this bacteria entering their bodies and leaving them disfigured after all of the ensuing treatment by doctors...I've come to the conclusion that I have simply had enough of these rich vultures pushing numerous people into poverty without having an ounce of compassion for what they have to endure while recovering from having this type of disease do untold damage to them both physically and mentally. I have had it with these vultures making matters worse by demanding these people pay as much as possible in return for having their lives saved. I'm formally asking that whoever reads this, regardless of political affiliation, contact their congressional representative or senators and demand that a universal healthcare system that is as cost-free as possible be instituted in this country. There's no excuse for it not to happen - if our nation's allies in the west can afford to have such a healthcare system in which all benefit from it and pay next to nothing for treatment, then the United States can do the same. It must be done...it must.

I personally love the IDEA of universal health care and "feels" ethically right to me. I sympathize so much with hurting people, especially after the car accident I was in that basicly screwed my whole life up (and made me broke) but the devil is in the details.

I think this would already be in place if more people were of the opinion that universal health care was better than a more "capitalist" system is. I don't think its a problem with mobilization, its a problem with convincing (or unconvincing) people. Americans are an anomaly in the western world, in that from what I've read, they don't think universal health care is the best course of action. (for whatever reasons I'm unsure) I get the impression its very complciated an issue, not as simple as it might seem on the surface.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on ones perspective) there are very intelligent, well meaning people that have long detailed arguments basically saying that the health care technology would not exist in the form that it does if we socialize healthcare to the extent that other western countries have. That is, to oversimplify, if there is no incentive other than to get the "minimum wage" that the insurance companies offer via universal health care, there is no incentive to spend the billions it takes to research the wonderworks type of medical advances we have made (primarily) under a capitalist system and that this advance is stifled by such systems.

Not that I have done enough homework to know what is the "right" answer and sympathize with sufferers who suffer even more due to lack of healthcare.