Editorial

Obamacare failure

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Dear Editor,

In Europe, the pendulum is swinging back from socialized medicine to more patient-basic traditional healthcare because socialized medicine was a total failure. Our neighbors across the pond are advising us not to adopt Obamacare because too many of the citizens who need treatment are not getting it and are dying right and left.

A doctor speaking on the radio program Truth that Transforms on KNGN stated that while 93 percent of diabetics are treated and survive in the United States, only 15 percent of diabetics in England are treated and survive because they can't afford to treat them all.

That is a scary statistic.

In some European countries, your worth to society is given a dollar and cents value. If your treatment costs more than your worth, you are turned away. Their idea of human value and potential is very finite. It's not surprising then to learn that Europe's population is 90 percent atheist or agnostic.

Everyone agrees that our healthcare needs an overhaul, so that all people have healthcare coverage and that Medicare and Medicaid need to be reformed in order to survive, but do we want to follow in Europe's footsteps?

There has to be a better way. Asking bureaucrats to run healthcare is like asking lawyers to operate NASA in order to find heaven. Bureaucrats know nothing about medicine.

Why not ask for the input of doctors, patients, pharmacists, insurance companies and fiscal experts? If not, we'll spend more money on less and more inferior healthcare services.

In addition, Obamacare will ruin the U.S. economically because employers will not be able to afford the higher price tags of health insurance. They will have to face the dilemma of having to strike healthcare from their benefit package to reduce pay or to fire people. None of these alternatives are acceptable.

The Obamacare law has as many pages as a large metropolitan phone book. The side effects and medical interactions of implementing it will be downright dangerous to our health and our economic survival.

**Janine Hall,

McCook, Nebraska

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  • What exactly does "patient basic healthcare" mean, and how is it different from socialized medicine, as in medicare and medicaid? People dying right and left? What kind of numbers does it take to fit that category?

    -- Posted by hulapopper on Wed, Jun 5, 2013, at 3:36 PM
  • I do not believe the problem many have with the Affordable Care Act, is the opposition to the plan which is a start in bringing some coherence to medical coverage in this country -- the hate out there simply is it is President Obama's proposal which was then duly enacted into law. It is a start. California is getting more coverage to those presently without health care. It is an ambitious problem as the problem of Americans dying for lack of health care coverage, Americans going bankrupt because of medical costs, providers submitting fraudulent claim(one medical group fraudulently charged and were paid for $70,000,000 to 90,000,000--

    yet another example of those being paid to provide more of a safety net in the health care field got greedy and started bilking the taxpayers for all they could get for as long as they could. Another example of private industry putting profits over providing quality care. Believe it was under Obama 's watch that this corporate rip off of the taxpayers was discovered and is in the courts.

    Californa has seen a lowering of health care premiums as a direct result of implementing and preparing to fully implement the Affordable Care Act. The political discourse in this country needs accurate reporting of the facts, not the spin doctors on both sides repeating untruth time and time again knowing that a fair percent of their listeners will eventually believe the lies.

    It is a sad indictment of this country that the corporate citizens spend and spend and spend to carry the message of hate and lies to a gullible public. As Detective Friday used to say, "Just the facts mam, just the facts."

    The Affordable Care Act has been voted on to be overturned by the teabaggers and other far right politicians how many times? The gridlock create by the extremists on both sides is not serving our countries best intersts. Support progress, those who don't generally end up looking foolish in a few short years.

    -- Posted by ontheleftcoast on Thu, Jun 6, 2013, at 12:49 AM
  • Janine hall obviously miswrote her 4th paragraph - what she really meant to say is this --- "In the United States, your worth to society is given a dollar and cents value. If your treatment costs more than your worth, you are turned away. Its idea of human value and potential is very finite. It's not surprising then to learn that the USA's population is 70 percent Christian. " There - that's probably what she meant to say.

    -- Posted by bob s on Tue, Jun 11, 2013, at 9:30 PM
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