Did anyone see the big white wet spot under the
saddle of Big Brown after the race? Oddly, no one
won that Trifecta...it was paying over $3709 bucks
for a $2 dollar bet. Is horse racing fixed? Who
knows? To paraphrase Sonny Corelone in Godfather 1,
"There's a lot of money in horse racing Pop!"
Well, there is a tremendous amount of money in making
the choice of any nation to offer Universal Heathcare.
So far, the Hillary plan of forcing every man, woman
and child to pay a Federal Premium for Nationalized
Healthcare has been put on the back burner. Obama and
McCain are touting less invasive plans...which include
Government assistance to families that cannot afford
the Premiums!
Should a single mom that works at Wal-Mart have some
form of Healthcare for herself and three kids? You
can bet that both candidates are going to "say" that
they want to help...Mr. or Mrs. America get that very
important protection for their families at affordable
rates! Do they really mean that? Maybe!
Let's just take a long look at what is going to happen
if we do double the demand for healthcare in America.
First of all, if we are waiting for service now...we
can expect waits that are twice as long. Adding 47
Million people overnight or even in a phased pattern
is guaranteed to overwhelm the system. Too many people
trying access too few facilities. We don't have the
trained staff now...as could be seen in Los Angeles
at King/Harbor Hospital. There will be many hospitals
that will simply we inundated for three to five years!
Then, what about the Insurance Companies that have to
move the funds to these facilities from the people to
Government to the Insurance Company and then to the
final Medical Providers.
What about the various forms of Fraud? What about
those people without identification or that are afraid
to use their "real name" because of some disease that
might threaten their job or work or home environment?
Most importantly, we have historic references to draw
from to understand what will happen to the cost of this
so-called Universal Healthcare. Remember mandatory Car
Insurance? Remember the 15 years of high accelerating
rates until a median price could be found for each group
that either lived in the wrong place, had the wrong auto
or was the wrong age? What can we expect these kind and
loving Medical Insurance Companies to do in this regard?
What happens when DNA testing will be a requirement to
get healthcare? What happens when "the Government" takes
it upon themselves to either price all of us out of the
market or denies access because someone won't provide
their DNA Sample? Will the Healthcare Premium come out
of our weekly paycheck? What happens when we refuse to
pay?
The harsh realities are that their are only so many MRI
and CAT Scan machines. Within two to five years they
become "obsolete" and need to be replaced by more
efficient and less radiating models. What happens to
those old and tired machines? Who uses them? Are they
safe? What then happens when your family doctor needs
to see 40 patients a day? What level of bedside manner
do you believe he will be capable of giving in three
years? What will happen is that healthcare will become
"Tricorderized". Remember "Bones" from Star Trek? He
carried his trusty "Tricorder" to diagnose every alien
in the star system. There is little doubt...that seeing
a "real doctor or real nurse" will not be possible in a
world that requires that "everyone has Health Insurance.
"In 1969, while traveling in Spain...I came down with a
case of the German Measles. I had no clue of what it
was at the time. A desperate fever and bright red spots
all over my back, arms and legs. In the beach village
of Sitges was a Red Cross horse drawn cart. The "Medico"
took my temperature and told me in broken English that I
needed to go to the big hospital in Barcelona. When I
got to the Hospital several hours later, near delirium
they put me at the head of the line of over a 1000 people,
because I was from the U.S. After 45 minutes in a cold
white,empty examining room...I decided to leave and die in
France rather than Spain. As I walked out the long walk
way out of the hospital - a lady sat by the wall with
her hand out begging with a dead baby in her lap! I was
two days later diagnosed with German Measles in Cannes,
France!" - Story by Ron Winship
Spain has always had "Universal Healthcare!" since the
days of Franco and King Juan Carlos! Let us hope upon
hope that the two U.S. Presidential Candidates in 2008
will understand that there can be no quick fix to the
U.S. Healthcare System. It will take many years of solid
infrastructure development and years of replacing bad
or worn out medical equipment.
What we probably need are a plethora of Government
Grants for those in the Private Health Industry that
want to build or occupy Office Space that provides our
Healthcare! The Fraud will be immense! The effectiveness
.....less than responsible. The change from Personal
Doctor Care to Medical Machines that make diagnoses...
will take some getting used to. We need to start now
with that research and development, so that in 10 years
it will be considered a "Regular Health Assessment".
"Sell it to the Government..hell, they'll buy anything!"
was attributed to some Senator back in the 1930's after
FDR unleashed his Socialist Programs to Save America!
So, what do you think? Was Big Brown doped, so that he
could not win the Belmont? We will have to ask someone
that knows "The Godfather" to find out! When you watch
the tape....Big Brown had an odd gate compared to all
the other horses in the race...did you see that? Was
the Jockey responsible? We need a Doctor called "Bones"
with a "Tricorder" to know the truth!
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