First off, I am an administrator in a doctor's office. Our business is to help people. We do NOT want people to stay sick. They do a good enough job of keeping themselves sick by smoking and eating all sorts of crap. You guys are more than welcome to continue to put money in the pockets of people who make cheap vitamins and supplements and claim that they do all these miracle things to your body. Have at it! I take a LOT of offense to the post that says that we are in the business of keeping people sick because that is JUST NOT THE CASE!
As far as the "Obama Care" thing goes, I have seriously mixed feelings about it. If it does provide healthcare for illegals, I don't like it-it sounds like it does to me. What happens when you have all these illegals in the streets sick and dying, though? They're going to go to the ERs and tax dollars are going to have to pay for it anyway!! We have to DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW!!!! How? I don't have a good answer for that, but by allowing them to get basically free healthcare here is NOT helping the case. Strict laws against hiring them would be a plus-or at least strict laws that are ENFORCED. For the Americans, Obama's health care plan could be the basic fix for us for now, but I don't think it's going to work inthe long run. Yes, we do need a fix now-we have to have some sort of insurance for everyone because people are going bankrupt from medical bills. If the insurances would be forced to pay reasonable rates, we would be able to charge appropriately. Right now we have to charge high to keep the insurances from cutting us more. You want to know what's unfair?? The cardiologist I work for gets $300 to put in a pacemaker. Yup-the insurances have decided that for 10+years of training, having to pay HUGE amounts to protect us against potentially unreasonably high malpractice claims (which we have none of EVER but we still have to pay about 30k per year in insurance against it becauase we do high risk things SUCH as pacemaker implantations), and having the actual ability to do an hour to 3 hour procedure depending on the ability of the heart to conduct the electricity based on where they put the leads in the actual heart muscle, it's worth a measly 300 bucks. Is that fair? If you really think so, go do it yourself.