Forum Post: Healthcare Reform - A Critical Demand
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 5:40 p.m. EST by psteele
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I urge the OWS to not forget about healthcare reform. While the focus on the fraud on Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America is great, the biggest problem our country faces is skyrocketing health care costs which is bankrupting the 99%. The #1 cause of bankruptcy in this country is healthcare bills. The vast majority of people in this country can no longer afford healthcare.
Healthcare in this country is now controlled by massive publicly-traded (i.e. Wall Street) health care corporations, whose CEO's makes tens of millions a year, all while denying benefits to those who need it. Worst of all, if you are not employed by a large corporation, or if you are unemployed or self-employed, you cannot get affordable healthcare coverage in the US.
On average a family in the US will spend nearly $18,000 on health care premiums a year, and not even get anything for those premiums, with all the co-pays, deductibles etc. It is a crime to deny affordable health coverage to all people.
The US is the only civilized country in the world to not have Universal Healthcare Coverage.
Here are three demands:
Medicare for everyone immediately. Despite what people say, Medicare works. It helps elderly people get the care they need at affordable prices. There is no reason why Medicare cannot be extended to every person in the US. If the government can spend trillions bailing out Wall Street and buying worthless securities from banks, it can spend the money to provide healthcare for everyone.
Private insurance companies should not be allowed to administer healthcare services unless they are highly regulated. Otherwise, they put profit before people's health. They'd rather have people die than lose money.
The government should set mandated maximum prices for all healthcare procedures, treatments, and drugs. There should be no reason why hospitals, and doctors should be able to get away with charging obscene prices for procedures. Hospitals routinely mark up their costs by 10X.
Agreed, but many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for entirely “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various demands at the same time, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do so at:
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