“Do Not Resuscitate The System”
The AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) held a rally today across Lake Washington from Seattle in the town of Bellevue. The AARP was attempting to draw attention to the fact that the elderly are all heading towards financial disaster as health care costs continue to rise.
800,000 Washingtonians are with out insurance. More than 43 million Americans are uninsured. Even those insured cannot pay the expense not covered by their policies.
Many physicians were in attendance and they all called for drastic change in the way America deals with health care. One physician on a speaking panel was even quoted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I ) on May 22, 2008 as saying “Do not resuscitate the system”. I’ll agree with that. The private health care system is dead. It needs to be replaced with a new and vibrant single-payer health insurance system.
In the same issue of the P-I Dr. Edward Langston discusses the bleak future of Medicare. Physicians are getting pay cuts for services rendered and it is getting more difficult for persons receiving Medicare and Medicaid to find a doctor who will see them. The Republican Medicare coverage reductions and the resulting lower payments to physicians don’t cover the expenses the doctors incur. If a lab tests cost more than Medicare will pay, the doctor isn’t likely to be able to provide the needed test.
Another guest columnist in this issue of the P-I is concerned about the regulation of biotechnology and genetics. Some of these new technologies will work wonders for the future of medicine. However, my genetic code belongs to me. No technological firm should be allowed to patent my genetic lines or any living creature’s genes for that matter. Life belongs to the commons and cultured cell lines ought to belong to the public domain. Science would progress much more rapidly that way.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 am
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