| As the Presidential race heats up it is hardly surprising | | | | will undoubtedly to some extent meet its objective, |
| to discover that health care and in particular health | | | | which is quite simply to win votes. However, it will |
| insurance is high on the agenda and, for tens of | | | | not do anything to improve the health care system |
| thousands of people, the potential for solving the | | | | as it is simple does not address real world issues. |
| problem of getting cheap insurance coverage for | | | | Health care today is big business and it has little to do |
| people suffering from pre-existing conditions might | | | | with providing health care and everything to do with |
| make Hillary Clinton's plan an attractive choice. But will | | | | earning profits for the insurers. Now you can talk to |
| it work? | | | | the insurers all day long however, unless the |
| As with the majority of proposals it sounds great | | | | government is willing to throw money at the problem |
| and promises to offer new choices for those who | | | | then costs are not going to come down. |
| currently have insurance coverage and also for the | | | | Anyone who has experience of private medical |
| forty-seven million Americans who are currently | | | | treatment carried out abroad will know only too well |
| without health insurance. In addition, it promises to | | | | that a large portion of the cost of providing care in |
| cut your monthly premiums and give you greater | | | | the US represents profits for the insurer and not the |
| security of cover. For individuals suffering from | | | | actual cost of providing care. You have only to seek |
| pre-existing conditions it promises to "end | | | | medical treatment in any of the wonderful hospitals in |
| discrimination based on pre-existing conditions or | | | | the Far East for example to realize that you can get |
| expectations of illness". | | | | the highest quality of care at a mere fraction of the |
| This new plan to meet America's health insurance | | | | cost of getting that same treatment in the United |
| requirements calls upon insurers to work with | | | | States. And if you believe that the standard of |
| employers and patients to provide a high standard of | | | | treatment abroad is not as good as that in the |
| health care at an affordable price and also calls on | | | | United States then think again because a lot of the |
| government to implement reforms to the health care | | | | medical facilities throughout the Far East are staffed |
| system to both raise the quality of care and | | | | by highly qualified doctors and surgeons and have |
| decrease costs. | | | | some of the most modern equipment you will find |
| This of course is precisely what we all want to see | | | | anywhere in the world. |
| but if it were that simple why is the health care | | | | It is all very well to talk about working with the |
| system in such a mess today and why are costs | | | | insurance companies to lower costs but the simple |
| increasing instead of declining? | | | | fact of the matter is that it is not in their interests to |
| The truth is that this is merely the latest in a growing | | | | do so. Costs will stay at their present high levels and |
| list of proposals to reform the health care system | | | | indeed will continue to rise until the US government |
| and is nothing more than pie in the sky. In effect it is | | | | decides to take over the responsibility for the |
| nothing more than a political document which is | | | | provision of the mainstay of health care in the United |
| extremely well written and beautifully presented and | | | | States. |