Comparing our terrible usa health care to Europe or Germany always works, since many remember somehow 'winning' in ww2. So basic , generally accepted fact number
1=we pay too much, more than Germans,
and get much less for our hard earned
buck . That is a fact, jack.
2=we are talking about a federal, not state
by state mess, OPTION to super expensive and low quality and low responsibility current PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE,,,and supposedly we americans like competition. So, again, this is a go for all the boneheads and drunks out there.
3=with this FEDERAL PUBLIC OPTION, we will all benefit by lower drug prices, since the fed can pool its buying power , like it already does for Medicare and Medicaid and the high quality Federal medical insurance your senator gets. So for idiots and super-stupid or super-stubborn people out there that say this is creeping socialism, go to Denmark and compare, cuz this is just the basics that most of us agree on,,,like Social Security and SDI and another worker paid into plan called Unemployment Insurance, you blooming uneducated ignoramuses out there.
4=you want the Feds to run it cuz you can't trust the now bankrupt state of california or any other state, and if you are dumb enough to trust a business like AIG or Madoff, instead of the Feds and the runaway military budget, then you are too stupid to be a successful american and deserve to suffer for your stupidity, you bonehead.
5=the public should have CHOICE, QUALITY CARE and LOW COST/FAIR COST health care,,,as this is not another going to the moon kind of problem. This is just setting limits on what business can steal from all of us with monopolies and what our government can screw up , like it did our entire nations banking and finance system recently.
Now for the 5 benefits:
1=i will not longer be stuck with an employer provided no option of kaiser of northern california, lousy medical care,,,where nurses have lousy attitudes and don't practice sanitary rules like washing after wound care, and a second opinion is asking the understudy doctor in the same office of the doctor who you think is misdiagnosing you to avoid the cost of immediate surgery on your torn quad muscle.
2=at the federal option, i hopefully will not be paying ridiculous over priced bill for a tube of medicine smaller than my little finger of $40, a wound enzyme to help it heal.
3=hopefully at the federal option we all can chose or not, i will get doctors trained in the usa or better, not worse places,medical schools and countries. Too many doctors have a bad attitude, poor patient relations and should try another business based on their poor performance.
4=hopefully under the federal option, i will be able to complain about a doctor who tried to sterilize me at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame and get more action than "you signed away all your rights to court and have to deal with our choice of arbitrators."
5=hopefully under the federal medical option, we will all get better preventative care. So we don't end up sick and old and get this common attitude nowadays at hospitals i am sure you have noticed of "he/she/you are old and sick, so did you expect to live forever?" as the doctor and hospital overcharge us and try and drain our live savings before our lives have ended at the over charging furneral service.
Common Cause and CR and others must have better basic lists of 5 FLAWS and 5 BENEFITS, but i am mad as hell at the current system and fear we all will forget the basics over the details and lose the huge opportunity to make progress in the usa.
