Five Reasons To Support Health Care Reform
(#1) 450,000 Doctors Are In Support Of Health Care Reform.
I’ve seen a lot of interviews with doctors who complain about the problems associated with trying to get the private health insurance companies to cover the care that their patients need. Overwhelmingly doctors favor health care reform (in fact many seem to favor a “single payer” system even more so than the “public option.”) Who should we listen to? Doctors who want to heal us or private health insurance companies that just want to make money and Republican politicians who just want to win a political victory?
(#2) Over 10,000 US Citizens Die Due To Lack Of Health Care Coverage Every Year.
This is absolutely a moral issue. If you are working against health care reform then you are working for the deaths of thousands of Americans. I’m sorry, there’s no polite way to put this. It simply makes no sense to me that any American with even half a heart can be OK with the concept of their fellow Americans dying because they are not rich enough to afford health care coverage.
(#3) To Stop Discrimination Against The Sick People & Pregnant Women.
Not only is this a moral issue, it’s also a civil rights issue. Right now the sick and the preganant are descriminated against by health insurance companies who won’t cover them due to “pre-existing conditions.” These are the people who need coverage the most and our system fails them.
(#4) To Keep Growing Costs Under Control.
Right now the US spends more on health care than any other country in the world and gets much poorer results back despite spending all of that money. It’s obvious that something serious (such as “the public option”) needs to be done to get health care costs under control. reform] is too expensive is ridiculous. What would truly be expensive is not taking this opportunity to get health care reform passed.
(#5) The US Ranks #37 In The World In Health Care
For a country with the massive wealth of the US it’s absolutely embarrassing that our health care system ranks so lowly and that so many of our people die due to lack of basic health care coverage. It’s clear as day that what we’re currently doing is not working effectively. Read these seven truths about the US health care system to get a better understanding of how screwed up what we have now is.
