•••quote:•••Originally posted by NUgirl:
•To those of you who answered helpfully, thanks! i appreciate it. To those who didn't...I already have my own ideas about current healthcare issues, I just wanted to know what everyone else thought too, or if I was missing something. It bothers me when some people can be so obnoxious.•••••Oh please, like everyone needs to be totally serious all the time...
Here's my two cents on healthcare issues:
One of the biggest questions facing us is "Who has access?" Access and cost are intimately tied together. As the overall cost of health care rises, those not protected by government mandates find themselves out in the cold. Physicians and businessmen need to work together to contain cost in order to make health care coverage more universal. And the government can step in too, though the government has a funny way of screwing things up. At the same time, efforst to control spending can hamper a physicians effort to give their patient the best care available. It's all about finding the balance, which we haven't done yet.