(Snippets from the frontline)
An American right
Hospitals compete against each other for your healthcare. Full page ads tout their newest, cleanest, safest facility with the best doctors, latest technology, and quality statistics.
Some larger institutes do outshine others technologically, but basically they’re all the same mounting public relations campaigns to gain your confidence and claim your insurance dollar.
It is the American way to make money off citizens who are ill and desperate, with the business plan to reap profits in return for cut-rate care.
You don’t know the hidden secrets of what goes on in hospital back rooms as profiteers increase their salaries, bonuses, and retirement packages while capitalizing on your attempt to receive worthy medical care.
But healthcare is an American right.
Every citizen should be allowed equal opportunity receiving care. Don’t let any business person, political party, or hospital administrator tell you or your family any different. Personal health is a reflection of national health, allowing our country to move forward and compete in the world marketplace.
Without it, we will be a mere vestige of a once great nation.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
I would like to see all Americans get healthier and live longer, happier lives. That being said, it is indeed a challenge for a government to care more about the health of people living here than they do. Assuming that obesity and other treatable conditions continue to increase, the burden of good health falls to “ we the people “. We have the option to smoke until we get Cancer and pay for health insurance to treat that. If we can not afford healthcare, we still need to be treated for illness/ injury but should not be “entitled “ to the same tier of care as someone who buys health insurance.
Great comments
Dr. Dorio is correct on many of the statements. Americans need to wake up. The Democrats promise everything and give pittance and obstruction. The republicans promise little. To leave this to the business bureaucrats is to become a slave.
Healthcare is NOT an American right, any more so than food, clothing, or housing. For those who are unable to afford these basic necessities, there are charities (NGO’s) and government institutions and programs that we citizens support out of our compassion for the needy. This is done directly through monetary contributions or volunteetism to NGO’S, such as the Salvstion Army, Red Cross, etc and indirectly though our taxes to support government programs.
Thank you, Dr. Dorio!