Health care reform shouldn’t be THAT hard, should it?
Health care reform really shouldn’t be all that hard to do, should it? Or should it? The very question itself is probably far more complicated than I realize.
On the one hand we’re talking about something that represents a huge part of our national economy. It affects or will affect most of our lives — the nature and costs of health care, that is. So, sure, I get it. The whole matter is much more important and volatile than a discussion of how to get rid of blackheads or solve irregularity.
On the other hand, the world’s largest and even smallest “developing” or “industrialized” or “First World,” etc., nations have almost all done better at making health care available than has the U.S. Really. Check that information for yourself at this link.
I can tell you in a word the real reason health care reform is so difficult in America. One word — MONEY. Too many insurance companies, and insurance company lawyers, and HMOs, and PPOs, and other health care conglomerates, and their CEOs have too much money at stake. Their money and power at every level make serious changes or serious reform to America’s health care system incredibly difficult.
I believe we’ll get there. Well, at least, I’m pretty sure I’LL get there — in three years I’ll be on Medicare.