Buffalo Boy's Blog
Giving You More Than Just My Two Cents
Children's Healthcare
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_go_pr_wh/children_s_health
I have become increasing political and skeptical over the years. Especially with George W. calling the shots in the US. He again showed his incompetence and why the US needs to adopt something that makes sense for a health care policy. What is in place now is not the answer. There are millions of uninsured children in the US.
Millions of them could have been covered had he taken out his pen and signed a bill that Nancy Pelosi clearly explained to him would cover 4-9 million more children in the US whose families do not meet medicaids standards for what is considered poor thus not covering those kids. It would cost an extra 6 billion dollars a year.
Currently the US spends over a billion a day in IRAQ. Easy decision. End the war September 30th and the US would save enough money in the month of October to cover those children with healthcare for 5+ years.
I know that no healthcare plan is flawless but single payer universal healthcare is at the very least worry free. How could any country allow their children to be uninsured? It is puzzling that a Christian President could allow that to happen. Guess hes not so Christian after all. George says he wants to compromise on the bill that would provide the coverage....to me there is no compromise. Cover all children with health insurance or to me its as good as none at all.
Chime in on this Canada, would you rather have a private system that gouges and looks for ways not to pay and leaves the poor in the dark or would you rather have your current system?
I'll take our current system (fractured as it may be) any day over the US system. Sorry, but when it comes to healthcare, I don't think there should be any place for profit.
Al,
That was my point of it. I do think the Canadian system is much better. The US has so much wasted money that goes to paying middle men selling drugs and pharmaceutical companies it inflates the true cost of health care. Take the profit out of the US system and it becomes a preventative system which should be what it is all about.