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American Health insurance System 201, Pt.4 – “Let me be perfectly clear…”

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As if deliberate vagueness isn’t bad enough, there are some who deliberately ‘fuzzy-up’ the difference between health insurance and health care. In many ways, they’re as different as a ‘customer’ is to a ‘clerk’. One pays the other. But there are those who would try to contort this difference with their ‘fuzzy’ references. They will say that a ‘national health insurance system’ is ‘socialized medicine’. Is it any wonder we can’t unravel the problem? How can we debate ‘apples’ when we’re really talking about ‘oranges’? The puts the trusting American public in a quagmire, because it doesn’t sound like anything can work. Forward progress quickly becomes stagnant. What our public is being denied is the choice between public health insurance (sometimes subsidized) and private health insurance for those who can afford it. It actually is being offered both ways, but nobody knows it. Our health care, however, is not national, but remains private. Not socialized.

It is reported by some, that Americans with no health insurance who frequent our ER’s for non-emergency routine visits, receive better health care than normal citizens of country’s with ‘socialized medicine’. This may be, but it’s a little like winos crashing a wine tasting event. The purpose of the event becomes totally frustrated and the wino still has no home. ER’s are expensive and are provided as a loss ‘leader’ just for emergencies. They do not provide the ‘medical home’ that is so essential in an effective health insurance/care system. All administrators agree that the ‘free-rider’ problem in this country is one of the most harmful blights a health care system can have.

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