um i guess my feelings are that uh we almost have a universal health care system uh to a great degree except that now i read where we've left out about thirty four million people
oh
and um i don't know exactly how we're gonna cover many of these people because i'm sure that some of them uh don't uh don't have the wherewithal to do it themselves so uh i i have a feeling since i have
just about as good a health care coverage that anybody can get that this uh then becomes an obligation of the government because it's gonna become an obligation of either state local or federal government anyway
yeah because when people can't pay they end up going to clinics or you know to public hospitals and that kind of thing and you know
well it seems to me that that i'm paying anyway because when i go or my insurance carrier anyway when i pay something the bills seem inordinately high
oh definitely
and the reason that they're inordinately high is because that has to cover the costs for the indigent people who apparently don't have the money or the wherewithal to do that
right
yeah yeah
would seem to spread it out a little better if the employers who
uh employ these people and pay them uh you know subminimum wages or whatever were asked to share to share their fair burden of this too just as my employer is and myself i guess
yeah
yeah yeah yeah that sounds like a good idea my only concern is what happens when you turn things over to the government i don't know do we wind up with more red tape and more problems so yeah yeah
well
well who who else is gonna do this then
i mean it's worked successfully in Europe i've heard all these stories about i travel extensively
um-hum
and spend uh maybe half a year in Europe every year and i find that the health care programs there
oh
uh are administered with uh at least people i talk to
with uh a great deal of integrity and uh people don't seem to be reluctant to use them to any degree as a matter of fact if i'm injured or
yeah
have an emergency when i'm say in Germany or France uh that i'm automatically taken care of i mean i don't even have to pay
wow yeah well i think part of the the
tremendous benefit of that is that there's so many people who wait now because they don't have the money until you know they have no preventative measures because
people um you know just go on and on and on i mean so many people don't even get prenatal care or and it just extends with if if it what what would be a minor problem to deal with if they had a help available early on becomes just this horrendous
you know burden on the taxpayers they're saying now that one out of every ten child born in in public hospitals is addicted to crack well you know
well i uh uh i i i know it i have a solution you see uh my my solution even though i'm rapidly approaching the uh
the age when i'll qualify for Medicare and Medicaid i i my mother and father both uh uh well my father's not living but my mother is
um-hum
and they are um of of an advanced years and when i see the money that's poured down the down the drain on Medicare and Medicaid i mean the absolute uncontrollable situation that we find ourselves in and the extraordinary amounts
yeah
i know that because those people vote i mean they're the ones who get out and vote that's what's robbing a poor mother of the prenatal prenatal care the young people aren't getting the proper care that they need and nutrition i think
yeah yeah
and we're spending on these useless many times useless and inordinately complex unnecessary tests in hospitals for older people
oh it's just unbelievable how much you go through when i just had a problem with my neck and they ended up doing a seven hundred dollar CAT scan and i mean a chiropractor got it in one time it was just strange
that's right i mean it does seem like we're the the the now i noticed just the other day in the paper that that Medicare will be based payments will be based not uh just on cost but on cost effectiveness so i guess
oh well that should help
well i don't know uh we'll see how that goes i think that was just a regulation that was up for comment but we'll see what happens
yeah
oh i see oh gosh
well listen uh i think i've i've exhausted my uh self on at least i've blown off steam of the way i feel about it
okay well okay thank you bye-bye
okay see you next time bye
