Obamacare failure
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