The biggest issues with healthcare, and these are also issues that the majority of people utterly FAIL to understand are as follows:
* Many think going to a single payor government sponsored system such as that in Canada or the U.K. will solve many problems and reduce cost. It doesn't matter what kind of system the country has be it single payor or a hybrid like ours is now, you must have more money coming in than going out. In the United States, we have far more demand than supply. Furthermore, and yes we have heard this a million times, there are just way too many people not paying in. We have a gigantic baby-boomer population that retires and stops paying many taxes when they do, we have a gigantic single-parent population that gets tax credits out the whazoo (kids are currently $1000 each). We have a gigantic population dependant on manufacturing jobs that are all going overseas and their vote to grant them more welfare is winning out over the vote to get them re-trained for different jobs.
* We are a country of sick people. Diabetes is rampant in this country. Thanks to our pitiful excuse of a media, we have huge rallies for breast cancer and things like that but not one person says anything to the fat chick who honestly thinks she looks awesome in those hip-hugger shorts. Men guzzle huge cups of sugary soft drinks and think they look cool doing it. Our dogfood and catfood is insanely nutritious yet we insist on eating fast food with that pink slime. If you were the CEO of Aetna, what would you do if you read a government statistic that stated 30% of all graduating highschool students were 20lbs or more overweight?
The issues could go on and on. But the bottom line is simple: We have too many sick people, too few doctors, and too many too stupid to realize the answer isn't more healthcare, it's more Gold's Gym memberships.
JamesNT
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