It is becoming more difficult to afford, or even obtain health insurance in this country. What is the government actively doing to solve this problem? What can we do as Americans?
What is being done to help those Americans who do NOT have health insurance? Why is nothing being done to control the cost of health care and prescription drugs?
2006-08-31 16:08:15 · 5 answers · asked by starrzfan 4 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
One of the most powerful lobbist groups in the U.S.A. are the medical lobbist. The Parmacutical Companies and the A.M.A. are very generous with politicians at election time. The American public can address these issues at the polls and prior to to the polls by making it known to their elected officials what is required to get their vote. Regardless of what politicians say they run for elected offices to satisfy their ego's. They want to win elections consequently the only thing they understand are votes. Social Security is in the condition it is in now because every four years the elderly (which I am part of) makes Social Security an issue and politician pander to them, but after elected those same elderly citizens do not hold the elected politician to their promises. George Bush whom I voted for can send A.I.D.S. medication to Africa at a cost of $300 per person per years. I volunteered in Galveston, Texas with an AIDS Organization and know that the same medication cost in the U.S.A. $1500 a month plus per person. If the American Government can send it abroad for $300 a year why can they not provide it to American Citizens for the same amount. It puzzled me so much that I began to investigate and found that the Pharmacutical Companie have a World map and on it they classify countries according to their economy. The Parmacutical Companies decide the maximum amount they can charge in these economic zones and still sell their product. I guess if we want cheaper prizes from the Pharmacutical Companies in the U.S.A we need to turn the U.S.A. in to a Third World Country. I now live in the Philippines and it is cheaper for me to pay cash outright for the same medication I was taking in the States than pay the Co-pay on my Blue Cross Blue Shield.
2006-09-01 18:30:18 · answer #1 · answered by tom1941 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Republican government is doing everything they can to make the people pay for their own health insurance.
That's right, the buisness you work for is trying everything they can to not pay it and the government is helping them along.
Soon you will not be able to work in the USA because everything will be sent over seas and what's left will be just service jobs to the rich.
If the rich could figure out a way to have their lawns sent to guatamala to get the grass cut they would send that too.
Jerry
2006-09-01 03:23:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tort reform would help a lot - when doctors have to pay sky high malpractice insurance premiums the costs go up for all of us. Enforcing our immigration laws would also help - how many of the Americans w/o insurance are illegal immigrants?
Fat chance of changing either of these situations if the Dems win in November.
2006-08-31 23:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Sass B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a perfect example: my friend waits tables gets no insurance through work
she bought her own
when she turned sixty it went up
she crumpled the notice iof increase in premium and threw it out
"so what are you gonna o if you get sick?" i asked her
she knocked o nthe wood tabletop
"im healthy, right?"
nobodys doing anything
its all a gamble
2006-09-02 03:20:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a damn thing
2006-09-02 19:11:13 · answer #5 · answered by fifi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋