27 November 2009
Affordable Access to Health Care
The Democratic health-reform plan never was primarily about affordable access to health care by all—not if affordability for all is meant to denote a uniform price that can be paid by everyone. In fact, what is affordable for one person may be out of reach for the overwhelming majority. The false ideal of equal financial treatment is the unrealistic standard set by opponents of health care reform.
The actual goal of health care reform is to attain equality in the level of medical treatment. The American health care industry is widely recognized as providing the best solutions for almost any disease or malady; however, those solutions are not available to everyone. Health insurance plans or personal finances limit most patients’ care to the dispensation of those techniques that are well compensated by the rules and procedures of the government or of employer-funded policies. They cannot afford the level of medical service that wealthy patients, often from abroad, purchase out-of-pocket.
Health-care mandates are merely a burden-sharing device that allows the entire population to benefit from the technological and scientific progress that has made medical practice in the U.S. the envy of the world. Let us make the availability of medical care in the U.S. the envy of the world, too.
The Democratic health-reform plan never was primarily about affordable access to health care by all—not if affordability for all is meant to denote a uniform price that can be paid by everyone. In fact, what is affordable for one person may be out of reach for the overwhelming majority. The false ideal of equal financial treatment is the unrealistic standard set by opponents of health care reform.
The actual goal of health care reform is to attain equality in the level of medical treatment. The American health care industry is widely recognized as providing the best solutions for almost any disease or malady; however, those solutions are not available to everyone. Health insurance plans or personal finances limit most patients’ care to the dispensation of those techniques that are well compensated by the rules and procedures of the government or of employer-funded policies. They cannot afford the level of medical service that wealthy patients, often from abroad, purchase out-of-pocket.
Health-care mandates are merely a burden-sharing device that allows the entire population to benefit from the technological and scientific progress that has made medical practice in the U.S. the envy of the world. Let us make the availability of medical care in the U.S. the envy of the world, too.
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