CHESSNOID

I think President Obama and his administration have good intentions on fixing the American health care system.  I do believe Congress  is trying to put something that will meet his objectives.  The problem is they are not challenging the issues that make our health care system weak.  I think we have great doctors and medical practitioners. That is not where the problem is rooted.

The origin of our problem in our health care system lies within the health insurance and drug companies.  If you watch the movie Sicko or have any family, friends, and relatives who need expensive medical care and have insurance, then you know that is where the insurance companies deny you coverage for whatever reason (so they can remain profitable).  At best you might be able to get them to cover a partial of the payment. Just look at the insurance company’s earnings coming out right now in the worst recession since the Great Depression.  All of them are making PROFITS.

Drug companies simply have a monopoly on drugs that allow them to mark them up literally 10,000%.  Do you ever notice that many commercials on TV are simply commercials for drugs with a million side effects mentioned so this disclosure stops you from suing them.  Regardless, they are just like the health insurance companies and are all reporting PROFITS in this economy.

Both types of companies prey on the American people’s health and look to profit on people’s sickness or illnesses.  You can’t fix the health care system until you deal with these issues.

Look at this report below from Investor’s Business Daily:

Major findings included:

• Two-thirds, or 65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan. This contradicts the administration’s claims that doctors are part of an “unprecedented coalition” supporting a medical overhaul.

It also differs with findings of a poll released Monday by National Public Radio that suggests a “majority of physicians want public and private insurance options,” and clashes with media reports such as Tuesday’s front-page story in the Los Angeles Times with the headline “Doctors Go For Obama’s Reform.”

Nowhere in the Times story does it say doctors as a whole back the overhaul. It says only that the AMA — the “association representing the nation’s physicians” and what “many still regard as the country’s premier lobbying force” — is “lobbying and advertising to win public support for President Obama’s sweeping plan.”

The AMA, in fact, represents approximately 18% of physicians and has been hit with a number of defections by members opposed to the AMA’s support of Democrats’ proposed health care overhaul.

• Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” if Congress passes the plan the Democratic majority and White House have in mind.

More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says. Projecting the poll’s finding onto that population, 360,000 doctors would consider quitting.