I keep hearing this "89% of Americans are satisfied with their health care" slogan and I keep wondering, " Who the hell are these 89%?" So I did a little Googling...
Fux Neus uses a Kaiser Health Insurance study from June of this year to claim the 89%. They also state "Ninety-three percent of insured Americans who had recently suffered a serious illness were satisfied with their health care." Well let's see.... that would be the survivors only, right? That's like asking a starving person if the breadcrumbs he was thrown were enough to keep him alive. What about the ones that drowned or got eaten by sharks? Did anybody ask them if it was "adequate?"
Yet both this article and the Washington Post's say that the majority of Americans want Health care fixed or improved. Doesn't that mean they are NOT satisfied??
Obviously the results are just a lot of crap from push polling paid for by the insurance industry to back up their policy and designed to keep a stranglehold on the American people!
People like my brother.
My brother was satisfied with his health care.... so he said... or so he was led to believe. He praised the nurses and doctors and clinic workers form treatment to treatment and all the way through his hospice care before he died of pancreatic cancer. He died after a tumor the size of a soft ball was removed from his gut. A tumor that must have been growing for at least 5 years, so the doctors said. Now how the hell does adequate or good health care NOT notice that? I noticed in his eyes that he was sick 2 years before he was diagnosed! And I'm not a doctor or nurse, or even work in the health care field.
My brother was wrong. He believed that the kindness of the Health care workers reflected the quality of his health insurance. It didn't. He paid the price for it with his life.
Was this rationing of health care?
Was it any kind of health care you'd be happy with?
89% of Americans, my ASS!
A recent NY Times/ CBS poll found that
"most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector."
This poll also said that 85% felt the Health care should be changed or completely rebuilt and still 77% felt satisfied or "somewhat" satisfied with the health care they had. While this still doesn't tell me how many were just plain "satisfied" I have my doubts about how many that may be in the real world.
For one thing, I don't know where the NY Times does it's polling, maybe on the sidewalk outside its New York offices or in CBS audiences, or even the pages of a high society magazine,... but my guess is that the poor and really poor are not represented in that poll. Also, those who are incapacitated or dead because of their experience with or lack of health care would also not be represented. My brother is not represented. Although if you asked him just 6 months before he died, he would have said he had good health care.
But really it was just health care that provided the minimum care that kept costs down so some insurance agent could keep his profits up.
Where's the poll numbers for that?
Still, my brother and his wife had been "sold" the idea that gosh darn, they had good ol' quality 'Merican Health care. "The best in the world!"
89%.... my ASS!
This is why the insurance industry needs to get the hell OUT of health care. The idea of profiting off of "selling" a certain amount of health care to someone is really obscene. Think about it.
The insurance people "profit most" when you use "health care least." Meaning they most likely sell you a plan that wont provide whatever you may need the most and instead charge you for what you will need the least.
??????
89%.... my ASS!
Who the hell wants only a "little" health care or the "minimum required" health care. We all want whatever fukin health care we need when we need it!
Health care is not a "commodity" to be bought and sold and traded on the stock market or ebay. You don't know what you need until you need it, but when you do, you just want the right person to be there to deal with whatever problem you have... period.
That's health "care."
I don't want "insurance."
I want someone who cares about my health, not someone who cares about how much they can make off of me!
What do those billions and billions, and billions in profits that the health care industry paid out as bonuses to executives that came from consumers like you, just this quarter, actually add to health "care?" Anything?
89% ..... MY ASS!