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Re: Dead: SCHIPFrom: Terry J DuBose (DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu)Fri Oct 19 12:37:39 2007
At Fri, 19 Oct 2007, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 10/18/07 11:44:11 PM, el@lisse.NA writes: > >> And? >> >> Maybe National Healthcare would lower Maternal and Neonatal Mortality? >> >That's a joke, right? > >Joe P. Why would this be a joke? In the early 90’s when the Clintons were working on universal health care, most of the health insurance and corporate medicine (and many health care workers) were wringing their hands and worrying about how Washington was going to socialize medicine. Remember the Harry and Louise TV advertisements? Always over the breakfast table, one would have Harry reading the paper and saying something like “Louise it says here if the Clinton’s universal health care bill goes through the government will be telling us which doctor we can see.” The next advertisement would have Louise reading the paper, “Harry it says here if the Clinton’s universal health care bill goes through the government will be telling our doctors how to practice medicine.” And they ran on and on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_and_Louise While every one was watch to see how Washington was going to socialize us, the corporate medical industry gobbled up most of the institutions, and now we have preferred provider lists, and bean counters tell everyone which diagnostic exams and treatments can be used. Now everyone is constantly negotiating the next provider contract, and wasting time to prove that a procedure is needed. We got exactly what everyone was afraid would happen. Capitalism is great for cars, art, and many products (prostitution also comes to mind), I certainly do not want Washington telling me what art I can make or hang on my walls. But when corporations get involved, and the bottom line becomes more important than health, then “First, do no harm” quickly gets subverted to “Your money or your life.” I fear that true capitalistic “fee for service” medicine is forever gone, but this corporate business is not capitalism. I have no qualms about helping the less fortunate, but do not want to support the scammers either, including adult children, families that do not really need it, or the medical practices that are ripping of Medicare/Medicaid, or overpaid insurance executives that produce little or nothing. Those who are taking advantage of the system are small numbers and need to be found, but denying the entire population that are disadvantaged because of a few who scam the system is like throwing the entire apple barrel out because one bad apple is found. In the meantime we have the worst health stats in the “developed world.” I liked the description of “undeveloping nation,” was that the term? “If every body does better, then everybody does better.”
-- Peace, Terry J DuBose, MS, RDMS Little Rock, Arkansas USA
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