| Posted: 07 September 2008 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | 5
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I don't wonder whether Obama understands the pressures on working people. I wonder whether he cares. I don't get sucked into his Elmer Gantry speeches. I look at what he's done, how he has voted, and what his plans are.
Yes, and what he's done and his plans both bode well for the working class. His votes are all over the map, but still leagues better than any other candidate on this issue, in my opinion.
You are 100% correct about the Health Care "solution". The fact that health care has become a business interest is the problem. In a business, the goal of the corporation is to make a profit for the shareholder; to put that framework on health care is obscene and inhuman.
No doubt Doctors (er, and the Training and Education staff that work with them... ULP!) deserve to get paid, but it should not be a free-for-all whereby human life is unimportant compared to making the filthy lucre.
Having said that... I gave an example above about how through Blue Cross my hospital stay bill was $12,000, where at my (now) former Hospital employer, it would have been $5. That price was not because I was an employee or because I paid more for a premium plan, it was just a better system. One that, yes, exists to pay the doctors and staff handsomely, but does not exist at the expense of the patients and their safety. And, by the way, a system that the Health and Human Services department is looking at, so...
Look - I can't help but be skeptical, too. Fact of the matter is, there's too much money to be made by the current way of doing things. If ANY politician tries to change it, the scenario Bill Hicks described will come to pass:
The President is lead into a small oak-paneled room where 7 men, tycoons, captians of industry, etc, sit around a table, smoking cigars. The President is put in a chair and given a cigar. The lights dim. A screen is brought down. A projector plays footage of the Kennedy assassanation shot from an angle that no one has seen before. The film stops, the lights go up and one of the money-men looks at the President and says; "Any questions?"
So, yes, I'm with you on that. But we'll see... and I say that as someone who works in the Health Care Industry. We'll see..
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