HEALTH CARE....

The Health Care reform by the Obama administration should be done without controversy of any kind, so long as it would be fair to everybody; seniors, in particular, must have their golden years unperturbed in any way; and the government must insist on a safety-net requirement for those who would become uninsured if they lost their jobs or even changed them (jobs).

The furor that was taking place in town hall meetings across the country indicated that all that people wanted was fairness, as well as quality care. Some of them said that they were happy with their present insurance coverage; others were advocating patient freedom to choose their own doctors; while some other sections wanted government supervision to curtail the shenanigans of the Insurance Companies, because they (shenanigans) happened.

All those were important factors that our Congressmen and women should seriously look into before they proceeded in passing a bill that would enable President Obama to sign into law, to have every American covered, as 46 million people were not insured at all. That was a diabolical situation for many families, who had no choice, but to go to hospital emergency rooms instead; and those places were sometimes jam-packed to the point of making doctors, nurses and other hospital workers very uncomfortable, let alone the suffering patients who were there just for some medical attention or treatment that they badly needed.

Profit making Insurance companies, as the name implied, did not want their businesses hampered by laws and regulations; they (laws and regulations) would reduce or minimize their profits; however, they were part of the problem. Instead of providing quality care for sick people, they would consider the premiums that were being paid to see if they were comparable to the kinds of treatment they should offer their patients. In their calculation, money was what people should have to get adequate treatment, and so many (patients) lose their coverage because they could not afford those high premiums. Doctors would then say that they (patients) were not sufficiently covered.

What people needed was proper health care and not unnecessary hassle, when they or their loved ones got sick; and that should be the bottom line for Insurance companies, if they wanted to stay in business. The government should also be involved, with appropriate laws and regulations, to make sure that health care services were provided equitably.

There was no way that the Insurance companies could rule that out; and if there should be a "public option" or an idea to bring competition into the field of health care, by virtue of having co-operatives, for them (Insurance companies) to to toe the line that would ensure reasonable health care for all, why not?.