| As the Presidential Election heats up it is perhaps not | | | | meet its objective, which is quite simply to win votes. It |
| surprising to find that health care and health insurance | | | | will not however do anything to improve the health |
| is at the head of the agenda and, for many people, the | | | | care system because it is simple does not address |
| possibility of solving the problem of getting affordable | | | | real world issues. |
| insurance cover for people with pre-existing conditions | | | | Today health insurance is very big business and has |
| may make Hillary Clinton's plan an attractive choice. | | | | very little to do with offering health care and a great |
| But will it work? | | | | deal to do with earning money for the insurance |
| As with the majority of proposals it sounds great and | | | | companies. Now you can of course talk to the insurers |
| promises new choices for people who currently have | | | | until you are blue in the face however, unless the |
| health insurance and also for the forty-seven million US | | | | government is going to throw a considerable sum of |
| citizens who are currently without health insurance | | | | money at the problem then costs will go on increasing. |
| coverage. In addition, it promises to cut your monthly | | | | Anyone who has experience of private medical |
| premiums and give you better security of cover. For | | | | treatment carried out abroad will know very well that |
| individuals with pre-existing conditions it promises to | | | | much of the cost of providing care at home |
| "end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions or | | | | represents profits for the insurer and not the cost of |
| expectations of illness". | | | | providing care. You need only seek medical treatment |
| Hillary's new plan to tackle America's health insurance | | | | in any of the many superb hospitals in the Far East to |
| requirements calls upon insurers to work with both | | | | realize that you can obtain the very highest quality of |
| employers and patients to offer a high standard of | | | | care at a mere fraction of the cost of buying that |
| health care at a price which is affordable and also calls | | | | same treatment in the United States. And if you |
| on government to implement reforms to the health | | | | believe that the standard of treatment abroad is not |
| care system in order to both improve the quality of | | | | as good as that in the States then think again because |
| care and lower costs. | | | | a lot of the hospitals throughout the Far East today |
| This of course is exactly what everybody wants to | | | | are staffed by very highly qualified doctors and |
| see but if it was really that easy why is the health | | | | surgeons and have some of the most modern |
| care system today in such a mess and why are costs | | | | equipment to be found anywhere in the world. |
| soaring instead of falling? | | | | Now you can talk about working with the providers to |
| The simple fact is that this is just the latest in a | | | | bring costs down but the truth of the matter is that it is |
| growing list of proposals to sort out the health care | | | | not in their interests to do so. Costs will remain high and |
| system and is pie in the sky. In essence it is little more | | | | in fact will continue to rise until the government itself |
| than a political plan that is very well written and | | | | takes over responsibility for the provision of the |
| beautifully presented and will no doubt to some extent | | | | majority of health care in the United States. |