Now Health Policy Is Just Comical
Item 1: Medicare is paying employers to maintain their retirement plan health care benefits, to the tune of $4 billion. These health benefits compete with Medicare Part D benefits.
Item 2: We already subsidize health care insurance, primarily through making business expenses for health insurance tax-deductible.
Item 3: Medicare isn’t allowed to negotiate on drug costs, although another federal agency, the VA, can. Medicare pharmaceuticals cost sometimes double what VA drugs cost.
Item 4: Our President’s plan to fix the health care system, Health Savings Accounts, is primarily targetted toward the middle- and upper-classes, those who already have health insurance. It also ignores the fact that approximately 80% of health care costs come from approximately 20% of patients (the really sick ones).
What’s next? The government subsidizing the drug companies for taking part in the Medicare D benefit?
Is it just me, or does it seem like our leaders are just setting up the government to fail?
That’s exactly what they’re doing. The whole neocon dogma is that government programs shuoldn’t exist, and since even they couldn’t get away with actually repealing them, they have been working (for decades) to ensure their collapse. That collapse will not only eliminate the progrmas, but also ‘prove’ that they can’t work and shouldn’t be bothered with.