Obama's "budget" throws billions into the health care industry. Papers like the Washington Post are publishing articles about "surprising" approval by the medical industry for such proposals. Really, surprising?
We took an in-depth look at Obama's budget. His pet project, Electronic Health Records combines massive amounts of money paid to support and reward medical services providers and insurers for using technology amidst verbiage so fanciful that it's frightening concerning how all this will be done while preserving patient privacy. The budget throws money at supporting health practitioners who go into underserved areas (a program that has already been tried), it throws money at autism, it throws money at the FDA that has failed in its job so many times that it's laughable, it throws money at everything EXCEPT a generalized provision for correcting the disparity in health insurance and health care options for the civilian workforce who stand one illness away from bankruptcy and non-insurability.
So why shouldn't the medical industry be happy, there's no reason. But as the Washington Post feigns "surprise", perhaps they should read through the budget. The ISSUE, the reason Obama was voted in is given three words in the and other stuff we'd like to consider hundreds of billion dollar package: (reduce health disparities). Not a dollar, not a plan, just a throw away line.
Keep it Simple Today: Read through the budget and put it into your brain in its naked truth instead of trying to believe in some fantasy. This will help us realistically assess what is next for Americans and what is next is probably a huge swell in the number of individuals on Medicaid (for which States will be getting more money).
Health insurers will get richer insuring the "healthy", the old will be insured by Medicare (with the use of our tax dollars), insurers will make up shortfalls in their huge profits based on the cost of exchanging highest profit policies for somewhat less profitably policies in exchange for guaranteed numbers of governmental employee participants by raising our costs.
And every time one of the ignorant "free market" talking heads speak about nationalized health care, remind them we already have it, but only for some of our citizens.
