Health and Food
Posted on December, 2009
Our council is negotiate the terms to take over our health care system, in the faith that it is too expensive, and will cripple our financial system if the costs are not controlled. The human element is the appeal to cover people that do not have insurance, so they will have access to the best care money can buy.
Rather than plow ground that has been plowed by writers more gifted than I, my center is how to offer health care to uninsured citizens. If this is a national priority, let's not wipe out the health care system that stands between us, and the harsh reaper in the process.
As a former County official, I had the liability to supervise and fund the county health department. This health care facility provided basic services too many that could not afford (or chose not to pay for) access to private care. County health departments live all through the nation, working quietly to benefit society's poorest citizens. Free or reduced price, health care is already being provided depending on your ability to pay. The present discussion is about building a new bureaucracy and restricting health access for everyone. Why not increase the funding for County Health Departments around the nation? In exchange for this added charitable benefit, the uninsured could only be treated at hospital emergency rooms after hours, and only if hospitalization was required. Hospitals would bill the county health department for any services provided, at the lowest negotiated group network price. Hospital emergency rooms would no longer be required to accept anyone who walked in their door.
Funding should be allocated by population on numerical bases, and disbursed to each congressional district. The Federal Government's role would end at this point. Each Congressional District would have a local board, composed of one commissioner from each county. These district boards would be responsible to distribute the funds to each County Health Department for the best impact in their area. County Health Departments would have to expand to enhance services, but continue to provide basic health services for the uninsured or poorest citizens.
