Single Payer Health Care
Once again, we appreciate the recent reporting of the Boston Globe and it’s writers, Alice Dembner and Rick Klein. They are shedding a much needed light on the newly created Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector and what’s going wrong.
See articles “State give more time for bids on insurance” by Alice Dembner, February 2, the Boston Globe, and “Romney distances self from Mass. health plan” by Rick Klein, the Boston Globe, February 3, 2007. Ms. Dembner follows the trail of the anticipated cost of this program for those who will be forced to purchase it, while those involved in creating it are squirming to somehow make it sound right. She quotes Brian Rosman, director of policy and planning for Health Care for All (this agency is one of the main supporters of the Connector universal health care plan) who now says “They wouldn’t necessarily (?) have to pay more….The insurers could rejigger (?) the benefit package.”
Rick Klein reported on February 3, in the Boston Globe, that “Romney distances self from Mass. health plan” that Romney and many others who first championed this universal health care plan are now rapidly trying to distance themselves from what was surely going to be a disaster when it came to implementation. But Romney knew what was good for his timing all along. First press for a health care initiative that special interests will be happy to applaud you for, and then distance yourself from the whole thing while you run for the presidential office – blaming the implementation of a flawed plan on the Democrats in a state you left behind.
Yes, the creation of Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector was a flawed universal health care plan from the beginning. All universal health care plans are flawed, because they are a bandaid solution to cover some people. Special interests are right behind every one of these plans. When you start out to cover some people, first you have to determine who those people are, their social worthiness (we hear a lot about how every child should be covered by Hilary Clinton), and what health care services they should receive. But this is really all about what insurance and pharmaceutical companies want to get paid and about their profit – not what these (a particular group of) people really need.
That’s why you know you’re in trouble with a health plan when you first hear about the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector. It’s about insurance and the objectives of the insurance companies – it’s not about health care.
The only way to have good, quality, health care available for all, is for all to have the same coverage. That is, Single Payer Health Care. Then
Everybody would be a health care watch dog, including both those providing, and those who receive care.
The huge number of wasteful health administration bureaucracies we are paying for now would be eliminated, or at least substantially reduced.
Direct payment to health care providers would eliminate excessive payments that now go to the insurance, bureaucratic, and political middle-men.
We would avoid a ‘universal health care’ system that, contrary to it’s name, it’s always a proposal to cover some population of people.
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