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October26, 2004
Healthcare treats the selective viruses
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Rebecca Straughmatt Photo Editor |
In the final debate Oct. 13, a key issue mentioned was rising healthcare costs and Americans who have lost their healthcare during Bush’s tenure.
Both candidates presented very diverse healthcare plans for Americans. Kerry plans to lower premiums while Bush pushes tax-free Health Savings Accounts (HSA), but both parties are overlooking the real reason behind healthcare problems.
As many students realize, health insurance costs money, a commodity many of us just don’t have. With high gas prices, tuition, rent, food, and many more needs that come with a price tag, what is left over for health insurance?
If you try reading the various healthcare contracts, you’ll find page after page of limitations and restrictions which exclude people, especially people who fall into the financial bracket of your average college student.
Kerry, you speak of lowering family premiums, well the premiums you’re targeting only include family and group plans.
Sorry Senator Kerry, but if you want college youth voting for you, you’re going to have to include us in that plan as well. I haven’t seen many selective viruses around.
Bush, you speak of health savings accounts. Save what? I have the flu now and I’d like to go to the doctor so I can stop gasping for breath without having to spend my rent money just to do it.
Newsflash, Mr. President, students can’t afford to be out of both school and work because we don’t have any money to save.
Sky-high health insurance premiums are unethical and discriminate against those in the work force who have severe health problems.
Recently, a woman I know was “let go” from her job.
A year ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. On paper, her previous employer stated a “loss in profit” and a “need to downsize” as reason for termination.
The real reason she was let go became apparent a week later when an ad for her job was run in the classifieds, a job they were “no longer going to fill.”
Could unethical behavior like this be the reason five million Americans have lost their health insurance?
If either candidate wants to solve problems in healthcare, then creating new programs is the wrong way to go.
Start by cleaning up the mess we call health insurance. The rules and restrictions placed on the American people have to go, insurance companies should not be the ones determining who gets to keep their job. And they certainly cross the line when they advise our doctors on who they can and cannot treat.
Create a universal health insurance plan targeting the insurance companies, not the people!
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