Wall Street Versus America The Citizens Want Tend To The Sick Wall Street Wants Their Money
I paid a visit to the Wall Street Journal to get an explanation on why health care reform is bad for me. I’m seeking the perspective of the brightest financial minds in the country for a deeper understanding on why the government shouldn’t crack heads to reform the system and protect the citizens.
Well, I didn’t get that explanation, what I did get was a sophisticated attempt to persuade me that Wall Street can better serve my interests than my elected representatives in Washington. But I’m no longer in the mood to negotiate or debate with business titans. The citizenry needs to wrest control of this issue away from these Harvard Business School used car salesmen, and forcibly set up a system that prioritizes medical treatment over profiteering on the medical needs of workers.
Here’s an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article bashing health care reform:
Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls
The health-care debate is part of a larger moral struggle over the free-enterprise system.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574495131591949574.html
“First, Americans recoil at policies that strip choices from citizens and pass them to bureaucrats. ObamaCare systematically does so. The current proposals in Congress would effectively limit choice across the entire spectrum of health care: What kind of health insurance citizens can buy, what kind of doctors they can see, what kind of procedures their doctors will perform, what kind of drugs they can take, and what treatment options they may have.“
“Meanwhile, ObamaCare would limit the ability of people to choose affordable insurance coverage through less-comprehensive, consumer-driven insurance plans. And it wouldn’t allow Americans to shop for better health-care plans from out-of-state carriers”
Funny, I can’t remember having any choices when it came time to sign up for health insurance. My employer had a plan, that was my choice, take it or leave it. I was given a book that listed the doctors that accepted that insurance and I picked one. The insurance company does get involved in what drugs they will pay for and how much of a co-payment they’ll require for those drugs. They have questioned and even overruled prescriptions written by my doctor. They do get involved in treatment options. They do all these things not because they are expert overseers of a cost efficient delivery system of medical care; they interfere because they don’t want to pay and need to improve their bottom line profits.
There are no affordable health plans available in any of the states so it hardly matters if you had the choice of an out-of –state carrier. The days of private carriers profiteering from people’s health care arrangements are coming to an end. They priced themselves out of business. They applied business models to care for the sick and mistakenly thought it was a money making enterprise where return on investment was the paramount determinate of the success of the system.
Wall Street analysts and health insurance executives are not required to take the Hippocratic Oath. They’re not interested in the ethical practice of medicine. The health or suffering or the lives of human beings is beside the point. A well run profitable company is of more beauty to them then the divine act of easing human suffering. They see god not in His creation, man, but in the dollars man creates. There is a place for this kind of thought but it isn’t in a doctor’s office or hospital emergency room.
These people want to control the system because they want to control the dollars, and they are fighting like demons to do just that. They deride health care reform as ObamaCare as if the president is too naive and not educated in the art of health care profiteering to speak on the subject. Truth is Obama has to care about Americans and not just balance sheets.
There is no debate or struggle over the free enterprise system, the struggle is over the sanctity of the lives of the American people. One side values those lives less than currency, while the other considers those lives priceless and belonging to god.
Wall Street will win the debate, it always does. Script is the parchment that our Testaments are written on. Sacrilege and blaspheme are the curses hurled on those who dishonor it. The American people can’t win the health care debate, but we are god’s people and we deserve better than this.
Sure, go ahead.