healthcare is fucked.
as long as health is treated and run as a business instead of a practice or a service, there will be cracks. So, there will always be cracks. But for some people to have this fear that government pressure on healthcare will put the government in charge of letting people die, i say: please, look around you. it's happening already!
quid pro quo - i work in the healthcare industry, and i see a lot of what no one else sees.
ms. nobody, 77 yr old female, with senile dementia and decubitus ulcers has care/caid, and is 9/10 time NOT getting the treatment she deserves of the "first rate healthcare system" that so many idiots out there think we actually have.
where do you think you are? norway?
there is so much waste in healthcare, and care/caid are used as a front every day, everywhere, in some fashion. that's the compassionate side of healthcare trying desperately to break through the business model system.
but elsewhere, ms. senator's widow has the same ulcers, the same dementia, and is really the same sad shell of a person, grunting, shitting themselves, with no family visitation, now rendered valueless by any society's standard. she will live to be 100 and actually get turned every 30 minutes like she's supposed to because she has private insurance AND the golden senatorial public plan. the difference is a better bed, better food, a larger flat-screen tv, private rooms, and nurses that actually speak english.
oh, and end-of-life counselors. so you don't die screaming. it's terrible, i know.
republicans and democrats want you to die screaming. horrified, in fact.
but most of the current members of both parties, in both houses, and the POTUS don't want you anywhere near their plan. most of them, in a nursing home situation, will die cozy, in nice big airbeds, with a morphine drip. because they had an end-of-life counselor, and a social worker who actually has time and the will to listen to what their patients are saying, and the power to do something about it.
