Comments on: Working to make health care more accessible and affordable http://augustafreepress.com/2008/05/02/working-to-make-health-care-more-accessible-and-affordable/ Independent news source for Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro, Va. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:13:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karl http://augustafreepress.com/2008/05/02/working-to-make-health-care-more-accessible-and-affordable/comment-page-1/#comment-488193 Karl Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:13:54 +0000 http://augustafreepress.wordpress.com/?p=1784#comment-488193 At the beginning of this year my medical insurance plan went up in price over 10 percent. Together with more job losses in this country, and large numbers of people already jobless, I have no idea how many folks are going to be able to gain access to cost effective medical care without some form of government help. At the beginning of this year my medical insurance plan went up in price over 10 percent. Together with more job losses in this country, and large numbers of people already jobless, I have no idea how many folks are going to be able to gain access to cost effective medical care without some form of government help.

]]> By: Allen http://augustafreepress.com/2008/05/02/working-to-make-health-care-more-accessible-and-affordable/comment-page-1/#comment-3020 Allen Sun, 04 May 2008 16:54:23 +0000 http://augustafreepress.wordpress.com/?p=1784#comment-3020 I think Bob's been in Washington too long. I have employer paid health insurance but I can't afford to take advantage of it as I should because the co-pays and deductibles (not to mention the price of medication) are too high. Goodlatte acts like we're all rolling in money. Yea,like I'm going to plop down $5,000 for a health savings account, when I'm having trouble paying for gas to put in my car to go to work. Face it, the healthcare system in the United States is broken. I think Bob’s been in Washington too long. I have employer paid health insurance but I can’t afford to take advantage of it as I should because the co-pays and deductibles (not to mention the price of medication) are too high. Goodlatte acts like we’re all rolling in money. Yea,like I’m going to plop down $5,000 for a health savings account, when I’m having trouble paying for gas to put in my car to go to work. Face it, the healthcare system in the United States is broken.

]]> By: Raymond Firehock http://augustafreepress.com/2008/05/02/working-to-make-health-care-more-accessible-and-affordable/comment-page-1/#comment-3019 Raymond Firehock Sun, 04 May 2008 16:38:17 +0000 http://augustafreepress.wordpress.com/?p=1784#comment-3019 Bob Goodlatte's approach to health care is to whip out his box of bandaids, which he enumerates in his column. The problem with health care in America -- the most expensive and arguably the least effective in the industrialized world -- is driven by the delivery system we are using. Private insurers with high overhead costs and huge profits don't make health care more affordable or more accessible, just more expensive. Like the rest of the industrialized world, the United States needs a government funded health care system to adquately reimburse our private doctors and hospitals while covering all our citizens at a reasonable cost. A government funded system will spread the burden equitably across society and remove the burdens from the dwindling band of employers who do provide care in their competition in global markets. Equal access to health care for all is in place in our armed services, our Federal government workforce, for our elderly, and for the poor. That accounts for half our expenditures. It's time to give the rest of the citizens government insurance paid by all for all -- that is, after all, what insurance is. The answer is not a hodge-podge of tax breaks and other mechanisms. Bob Goodlatte’s approach to health care is to whip out his box of bandaids, which he enumerates in his column.

The problem with health care in America — the most expensive and arguably the least effective in the industrialized world — is driven by the delivery system we are using. Private insurers with high overhead costs and huge profits don’t make health care more affordable or more accessible, just more expensive.

Like the rest of the industrialized world, the United States needs a government funded health care system to adquately reimburse our private doctors and hospitals while covering all our citizens at a reasonable cost.

A government funded system will spread the burden equitably across society and remove the burdens from the dwindling band of employers who do provide care in their competition in global markets.

Equal access to health care for all is in place in our armed services, our Federal government workforce, for our elderly, and for the poor. That accounts for half our expenditures. It’s time to give the rest of the citizens government insurance paid by all for all — that is, after all, what insurance is.

The answer is not a hodge-podge of tax breaks and other mechanisms.

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