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9月27日

Domestic Issues:

With the war in Iraq raging and the Taliban resurging in Afghanistan, it is easy for politicians and politicos alike to forget about America's domestic problems. While I am not saying that the above issues aren't important, they are, I do think that the strong-point of the democratic platform has always been domestic issues. Now more than ever the common people need a political party to take on the issues that have been plaguing them for six years. One of the most important of these issues is health care.

Health insurance premiums increased at the slowest rate since 2000 this year, but still rose at more than twice the rate of inflation, a study released today found.

Over the last couple of years, one thing I have noticed is that the push for national healthcare has disappeared from the political discourse. The democrats need to bring this issue back to the top of their campaign platform. Poll after poll shows that healthcare is one of the top issues among voters. This is unsurprising with 46.6 million uninsured Americans according to the 2005 census. With quality and availability of healthcare diminishing while prices soar every year, this is an issue that cannot be ignored.

The study found evidence of an erosion in health benefits for the American worker, Altman said. The percentage of firms offering health insurance held steady this year compared to 2005. Since 2000, however, the proportion dropped from 69 percent to 61 percent.

Meanwhile, a growing percentage of workers, especially those in low-wage industries or those who work for small businesses, are paying more out-of-pocket for their health coverage.

America is the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal healthcare. We cannot keep up with the global community if there is a large segment of our citizens being left behind:

The U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy rate for residents older than age 60 among almost two dozen industrialized nations worldwide, according to a report published Wednesday on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs...

I don't know that there is any better of an argument for universal healthcare than what is written in these reports. We cannot continue to sit back and watch a segment of our country suffer and slowly die from curable or preventable diseases. If we really want to save lives, then we have got to have healthcare for everyone.

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	Daveidusa发表: I am in total agreement. The American family seems nowhere to be found on anybody's agenda. The Republicans have done nothing for Americans in an impossible economy. I continue to get up every day, and go to work. I do that as many of us do. More, and more just to exist. Even at 20% as my co-payment for medical, my portion of recent medical costs have risen to over $4000 plus my monthly medical insurance premium. This is unreal. I have recently commented on my blog about this situation. Damn Republicans have made it impossible to survive but, the question remains; Where are the Dems? 10 月 1 日
	WestDale发表: Even rather poor countries have managed up put together respectable health care systems. People shouldn't have to worry about getting sick placing them in extreme financial hardship. Its not ethical, when better, fairer systems are in place. When I said the system might be changed because it doesn't seem sustainable, I'm partly talking out my ass because I'm not intimately acquainted with it. But it seems that as costs go up, so will insurance premiums. There has to be a breaking point, especially with the rate at which medical costs are increasing. Employers must become less and less inclined to offer insurance, and the coverage in place likely is deteriorating. There is a story in Douglas Adam's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' about a company who sold custom planets to the wealthy. (Bear with me, I'm going somewhere with this.) Eventually, the entire galaxy was was bankrupted, and the custom planet company had no one to sell planets to. So they all went into cryogenic status for a few million years. Drug and insurance companies can't do that, and so they will find themselves at a crossroads. As the medical costs continue to increase, a larger and larger percentage of the population is going to be uninsured and at risk. Many with insurance (higher/middle-class incomes) will find the coverage constantly degraded. Somewhere along the way, it seems to me, enough people will see the system is not sustainable and needs to be revamped, including many who got exceedingly rich off the old system. This is just an uninformed hypothesis of mine. 9 月 28 日
	mellosayward发表: I'm not too sure yet how I am going to pay for it. Mom said the last time she had to go to the Emergency room for something she was supposed to pay some ridiculous deposit and she ended up giving them a check for just $25 dollars because she didn't have it. I am hoping I can do something similar. I only have $100 and the doctors visit is $58, plus I kinda need money to live off of till my next check in two weeks. Oh and no, mom and dad can't help because they are just as bad off financially as I am. It really sucks, I was in so much pain at work tonight, I wanted to cry. I hope SOMETHING can be done. I will probably just end up with a retarded bill with the Hospital by the time it is all said and done. Actually, I cannot even imagine. If it is pushing $1000 for just a test, I don't even want to know what it will be like to actually fix something. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow night hopefully. I have to be at the doctor's office at 8:45 in the morning, then I have to go to work. Well, depending on how I feel after work, I will hopefully let you know. Well, I gotta crash. I love ya! Bird 9 月 28 日
	wehlia发表: Bird, How are you going to pay for it? Are mom and dad going to help? It really makes me angry. This is why we need national healthcare. It is rediculous and EVIL for people to have to suffer from illness just because they are not wealthy!!! Fuck this place. I hope you can get the tests done. They shouldn't be allowed to deny you care even if you cannot afford it. I believe that is policy. But, it may only apply to emergency situations. Btw, those of you who have never went without insurance, listen up. For the poor people, our healthcare involves dealing with illness until the point of being so sick that we have to go to the emergency room. Because a doctor's office can refuse to see you if you cannot pay, but a hospital cannot legally turn you away in an emergency. The poor in this country do not have preventative care! For example, most poor people will not be treated for cancer until it is way too late to recover. Poor people cannot afford yearly checkups. In my opinion, in a country that claims that it is the best in the world, it sure doesn't show it in the way it treats it's citizens. 9 月 28 日
	mellosayward发表: I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow and he is going to send me to the hospital for an ultrasound. It is going to cost $845. They told me I would have to pay $254 before I left the hospital and it is $58 for the doctor's visit. I want to cry. I am so tired of hurting and yet I can't afford to fix it. Ughhhh..... 9 月 28 日
	wehlia发表: Dale, Someone needs to be on a soapbox. What is sad is that I have had this up for two days on two different blogs and I have gotten comments from a total of 3 people. And one is Canadian. I have to disagree with you on one thing though. It will not be efficiency that causes our government to wake up. They could care less about efficiency in any part of the government. The problem right now is that the insurance companies and the big drug companies are making a killing. They are not going to give up their racket that easily. Especially not while this administration is in power, since people like Rumsfeld have ties to drug companies. He used to be the CEO or something of a huge drug company before working for Bush. His company is the one that makes tamiflu if I am not mistaken. It is all about the rich getting richer at the expense of the little guy. That is the American way. 9 月 28 日
	WestDale发表: The industry itself should realize that the present system doesn't appear sustainable. Its not ethical either, and its rather wasteful; but its maintenance will concern them more. If I was an American I'd consider it inexcusable what both parties have done. A few profit at the loss of many, and we're often talking about pretty basic needs. Why this isn't a huge grassroots cause down there simply boggles my mind. It seems if a system of universal health care is ever adopted, it will be a question of efficiency not morality. Look at what insanity the fear of terrorists has produced. If fear is so motivating, what about the fear of getting sick? It all makes no sense to me. Why can't the churches develop a social conscience and do something useful for a change? All the church leaders worship right now is power, mammon, and armageddon (which amounts to a desire for vindication of their fragile worthless faith the rest of us mock). They're just creating a living hell for the rest of us, and its making me testy. They've lost any respect I ever had for them, and your frustration is more than justified. Give them hell for me. That felt good. I'll hop off my soapbox now. 9 月 28 日

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