A Look at Healthcare Reform

Healthcare reform maybe now is time to chime in.


Do we need it? YES Can we pay for it? Probably not.


Right now it seems to be the topic everybody is discussing and disgusted about, there is no question in my mind that a healthcare reform is needed. Does that mean we need another “Plan”? Certainly not. We already have 3 government run programs and none of them is working. So you fix it by adding another one? I don’t think so. Us usual the government is run with the intend of moving money from one pocket into another in the same pair of pants and declaring by eliminating this and that they will save money. Unfortunately moving coins around everybody knows there will be sooner or later Holes in those pockets, and nothing is saved
About the Death Panel? There is none. Of course politicians can’t speak a normal language. It is not a good idea to have something called “End of life issues” in a health care bill. It invites people to speculate. It is a fact that most American don’t have a Health Care Power of Attorney. So make one and you won’t even see those guy’s. All this is, it’s a group of professionals helping with the issue if a loved one is in a serious state of “Disrepair”. There is no cost issue involved just the medical facts. Like if the person is in a mentally and physical state which requires 24/7 care with no hope of recovery. (Gun shot to the head and half the brain missing per example). WE could argue God intended that person to be dead, he/she would be if it wasn’t for our intervention. Who is right?

There is one troubling and not very clear aspect in this bill. It looks like if you don’t have any insurance you MUST take the public option. And once on it, you can’t leave. On the other hand, that might just be written in legaleese and so confusing that we might have a few lawsuits making lots of money for the attorneys, which of course are the ones who have written this bill in the first place.

Why can’t the just write a bill like this:

We will establish small fully staffed health clinic in every county were you can go and have your cuts and bruises taken care off. To fund this projects we will charge 10 dollars a month to every adult in America and a 5 dollar co pay at the time of service. By participating and being up to date with your contribution, any prescribed medication will be available in generic form for 3 dollars. Otherwise your medication co pay will be 5 dollars. Of Course this insurance will also pay for major illnesses and accidents.


Of course something as clear as this can’t be written, its way to simple

Healthcare debacle

And now health care reform. Well I actually read it. Half of it refers back to other regulations and as usual its legalese. It seams that nobody in Washington can write in plain English. And yes provisions are made for end of life care and funding for planed parenthood, i.e abortion clinics. Don’t get me wrong I am NOT in favor of abortions. However I am in favor of letting everybody decide for themselves. Just like guns, I don’t have one, never will. But I will stand right beside you for YOUR right to have one. I might question you why do you need an Uzi to go hunting, but that’s your business. I have a little insight into the National health care debacle.

In the 70’s I lived in London England a National health care country. I worked at all places for AMI, American Medical International the owners of the Harley Street Clinic and princess Grace Hospital and some more “up country” all off them private Hospitals. They did a thriving business, taking on the “cast offs” from the national health care service. At that time a arthroscopic knee operation was about 1200 sterling. With a waiting list of 18 month. Of course you could not work during that time. So you were relying on welfare to keep you afloat. It was the bare minimum. So the Marketing dept of AMI offered the operation on a payment term starting one week after you went back to work, instead of a long waiting period. In the 70’s there was no other health insurance available. I remember at that time we had a lot of problems with far eastern people arriving at the airport passing through costumes and immigration and falling on their face in the airport with major illnesses like cancer etc. those people didn’t even had to book a hotel room and were carted of to a hospital. A waiting list was created because of instances like that. Under a National Health Care system emergency medical help will ALWAYS be applied. Accident or emergency medical help is always taken care off. And if a bed is available you will be admitted, thus moving “selective” surgery down the list. National health care will NOT remove the backlog in the ER, most likely increase it, because sometimes that’s the only way to get a bed. Does America need a NHC? No anyway we have one already, Medicare and Medicaid fix that first by putting ALL federal employees including congress and the senate on it

They will fix it then

Here we go again

Human nature is something else. We are all different and we make totally different t decisions every day. Some we regret some we just live with and some we even can reverse sometimes. I have made plenty I regret most I can not redo ever. Some I work on to rectify now. Some 20 years ago in my “middle age” I started a business big time under funded as usual for a start up adventure. It was way more successful then I or anyone else anticipated. So money was quick becoming an issue. Meeting payroll that is. And of course collections. I sometimes needed to use money from my personal account to supplement the payroll account. Which got me in trouble a few times, meaning that action resulted in bounced checks on my personal account. Which I took care of most of the time however sometimes it took me all the way to a magistrate office to be reminded to take care of it..

All this took part in the Mid 80’s No big deal I thought, all taken care off. Some checks were like for $3.85 in the end costing me over $50.00. During the second term of the Reagan administration the Amnesty Bill was introduced and both my wife and I applied. My application was denied on the grounds that I had 3 or more misdemeanors on my record, regardless of their disposition. So I got myself an attorney who for one reason or another got me a pardon and expunge of some of them. And appealed the decision. I am aware of the appeal however for some reason unknown to me I was not aware of the outcome. Next thing I remember is getting a Voter registration card in the mail. Thank you whoever.

Fast Forward to 2008

After an accident in 2004 and 4 years of treatment I was finally declared to be disabled.

Filling out the paperwork for disability was not that easy and of course the social security administration denied the claim at first. So I appealed and won. Cool. Right? Well when it came to calculating my benefit we run into a little snag. It seemed that my legal status was sort off “pending” which translated into me not getting ANY benefits. So I instigated to receive a request of all my paperwork relation to my immigration status under FOI. Easy enough right you read that newspaper always get whatt they need and rather quickly before the story gets cold. Apparently in my case there is no story so FOI took their sweet time to find the 107 pages relating to my case some 18 month actually. I requested it to be send to me on CD just to save a tree or 2 and make it easier to duplicate. Well I got pages some even blank with nothing on it. So now I am back to square one. I need to find an attorney who will first of all remove the rest of the misdemeanors from my record. Then reapply for residency. Remuneration? A share of the 21,000.00 the Social Security Administration owes me in back pay as of right now. Any Takers?