Are They Purposely Pushing Us Towards A National Health Care System?

I for one am not for national health care, I don’t think that it will solve all the health care problems that we encounter, if anything it will make them worse. All one has to do is look North to Canada to see this, sure, they have a national health care system, sure all their citizens have the right and are enabled to go to the doctor, but they’re lucky if they can ever get in to see one, it’s so bad that they come to the US to see doctors. I don’t want to be in a situation where because of a national health care plan I go from 4 visits a year to my endocrinologist to 1 visit a year if I’m lucky. Furthermore, a national health care system isn’t free, you may no longer have to pay for the private insurance plan but you will have to pay higher taxes. Do we really want this?

Some people do, my guess is they don’t fully understand that what they’re asking for is higher taxes, a decrease in health care quality, decrease in access to physicians (which is where the long lines come into play, I have a problem with waiting 3 days and people are asking for a wait of 2-3 years in some cases if the US goes to a National Health Care System), not to mention that if the Government gets involved with our health care system (which I acknowledge that they already are to some extent) we’ll loose our freedom of choice when it comes to choosing what doctors we want to go to (mainly because if a national health care system goes into place we’re likely to loose our doctors to countries where the government is not so involved with the health care system. Similar to how Canadian doctors are coming to the US to practice).

I think I can say with confidence that a national health care system is a flawed idea and it can’t be fixed but can only become more flawed. But I digress.

The reason this comes up today, here and now, is because of a report that I’m just now reading on MSNBC as part of their RedTape Chronicles. The report is entitled: The doctor will see your credit now. The gist of it is a system where our credit scores determine our ability to pay our medical bills and how it will be used to . And while they say it will not be used to limit our access to health care if our credit is below par, it begs questioning. Why do this in the first place, why waste the money on putting a system into place that will supposedly “help health care providers sort through patient records and potentially make it easier to write off some unpaid bills as charity cases, rather than delinquent accounts, which would offer the hospital some accounting benefits” (according to Tim Hurley, a spokesman for Healthcare Analytics) when we know it will be abused (as everything seems to be anymore). So, reading that, the question is still begged, why spend the money to put into place a system that isn’t going to “affect” our medical care instead putting into place a system that will provide us with better medical care? Of course, once asking that question, many people begin to scream “national health care”.

So my question at the bottom of the barrel is this, is this simply a ploy to get us to run towards national health care? Because it’s certainly what it’s doing, it has people not only running towards national health care, but it has them screaming for it as well.