Health Care ABC's

In a grab for even more control, or at least the appearance thereof, Usurpent has negotiated a deal with ABC to broadcast live from the White House on June 24. This, I foresee, as a permanent venture in the near future. ABC's ratings must be down, or they're going to receive a pile of that newly printed money that the Treasury has authorized.

Along with the other dictatorial actions of Usurpent, he now is commandeering a major network. Does this not strike anyone as odd? Incidentally, I called ABC this morning and spoke to a guy named Brice who works in the "Executive Offices". When I questioned him about the White House broadcast, he denied knowing anything about it. This is someone who is "very connected" with executive matters at ABC. My congressman, however, had received a memo from the RNC earlier today regarding the issue.

Usurpent has been harping on a health care crisis since 2007. Hillary, of course, had begun the process while her husband was 'in charge' years earlier. There is no health care crisis in America--not yet, anyway. The day socialized medicine is in place is the day we'll have a crisis!

The problems with today's health care are many:

1) Too much government red tape, especially with regard to HIPA, Medicare, and Medicaid
2) The entire system is abused, e.g. hospital emergency rooms used for colds and other minor conditions, illegal aliens using any part of the system, doctors' offices double billing patients and the government
3) pharmaceutical companies and hospitals charging exhorbitant prices/fees
4) insurance companies charging too much in premiums, and increasing premiums by as much as 30% annually
5) society's expectation that care is to be available for anything at any time

I would suggest that health insurance companies need to be regulated, something that they've escaped for all these years. It disgusts me that Anthem raises our premiums a minimum of 22% every year, blaming it on the American couch-potato lifestyle (my paraphrase). No one else in the private sector increases their prices by that amount, mainly because it is unreasonable.

Pharmaceuticals need to reduce their costs, lower their profit margins, or be subsidized by the government much like we do with farmers.

Hospitals, too, tend toward greed. This must stop. Personally, I spent 4-1/2 hours in the emergency room last year for kidney stones. The bill was $6,000. My wife had pneumonia earlier this year, spending 7 hours in the ER before being admitted. That bill was about the same. There isn't any justification for this kind of business.

Aside from the possible subsidies mentioned above, government needs to stay out of the process. HIPA requirements are ridiculous, and Medicare and Medicaid are causing fewer and few new doctors from entering or continuing practice. They're being paid less and less each year as determined by these agencies to the tune of 40%, 25%, and even 15% of billable services.

Finally, Americans need to realize that, certainly, maintaining a healthy lifestyle will help cut health care costs, but that not every illness requires medical attention. Colds, the flu, sprained ankles, etc. in most cases can be taken care of at home.

If you're looking for a crisis, you've found it in the new Amerika.