What Health Care Reform Means For The Insurance Companies

According to Sarah Palins Facebook page, Obamas health attachment diary is “downright evil”. Her comment alone shows what an idiot she is and how little she understands about affordable health care – something Americana have nalways had. Sarah Palin thinks that, if you make health care affordable, that will mean the extremely ailing, the elderly, or the very young will not receive care. How mistaken could she troth? Dead wrong.

I grew wakeful in the United Kingdom, a country that has always had general health care. Everyone in the UK gets health care, whether theyre very sick or slightly sick, liberation a limb or just need some friendly advice enjoys a health worker. For me, growing up in England, I hint that was normal. Then I moved to America. All of a sudden, I was paying the same gabovenment tax rate I paid in the UK, yet when I went to the hospital for a painless broken toe, I was flaunted with a bill for over $1,300. Of course, I had health coverage, but my health insurance company refused to pay it. Why? Because I was outside their network when I had the toe fixed. If Id gotten in my car with my broken toe, and driven 40 miles to a hospital that was in their network, I could have been covered. As it was, I wasnt. For a woman who grew up with free health care for no matter what from a sprained ankle to wits surgery, I just couldnt figure it out.

Nowadays, I live in Thailand. Technically still a third world country. Yet Thailand has some of the desirable health care in the world (so good, that Americans are now manifestation for medical tourism, to get it for themselves) and its cheap – because Thailand has a universal health care system. Every Thai, who cannot afford private health care, pays 30 baht in keeping with visit. Thats close to 95 cents. And they get good care.

If you desire private health care in Thailand (which, I can warranty, is also better than American health care), you can pay for it and go to one of Thailands a number of world-class hospitals. I recently had an EKG, chest x-rays, three doctors visits and 11 different blood inspection for a whole cost of less than $200. This at one of the best hospitals in Thailand. A simiilar visit to an American hospital would have been thousands of dollars and with a waiting time to see the doctor ten times longer than I waited in Thailand (I waited 3 minutes!)

Prescriptions are cheap too in Thailand, either for Thai brands or even for imported American medications. So, how is it that American drug companies can sell their product in Thailand, much cheaper than in the US and still make a vantage? Because theyre ripping off the American consumer and the Republican bash and people like Sarah Palin are helping them.

So, Sarah Palin mouthing off that Obamas health care plan is “downright evil” is stupid. Ive lived in two countries that have universal health care and had better health care treatment than I ever received in the US, and for a price much much beneath.

But people like Sarah Palin and her ilk dont want you to know that. Theyre receiving millions of dollars a year from the health care lobby, and the drug company lobby and they dont want that money to dry up. After all, with that, they can afford to pay for private health care. But what about you?

So, if I have to choose between Obamas health care plan being “downright evil” or Sarah Palin being “downright evil”, I know which one Ill choose and it wont be a health care system that will actually help Americans – that is, if the Republican Party will allow it.

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