Tran Harry – The Economy Needs A Fix

No I don’t plan to create the end all be all scenario to fixing our health care system but just got a few thoughts on what could be done better.

Right now the way I see it you got a lot of pissed off doctors (the suppliers) who went into pile loads of debt to get their degree and start earning money way later in their lives than their peers. Most doctors did not come from families who already had much wealth but rather because they heard of the luxuries a doctors salary can provide them so they took on mountains of loan and debt to get them through schooling for years. They come out and find out insurance companies put caps at what they can make and than realize that they can’t even afford to pay their loans unless they initiate more tests on patients and offer up bad medicine to get paid off by pharmacies.

Than you have the patient (the consumer) who needs health care related services yet because doctors have become so adamant about making money they forget that the patient often times cannot afford care to begin with. The insurance companies have so many checks and balances it becomes a headache to even make a claim for the patient going in because he already has a headache so whatever processes they need to take financially just get compounded by the headaches they already have from their illness.

Now unlike other industries like automobile, real estate, and credit cards I would venture to say that 100% of the population in America will agree they will not be happy if all the doctors and hospitals vanished tomorrow.
If automobiles vanished we can all ride bikes or public transportation, so why did the big three get bailed out? If home builders no longer were around, we’d simply rent or buy homes that are already built. Who needs to have a brand new never lived in home anyway? That’s a want not a need. And if credit cards were gone than we’d go back to paying with cash, or now it’ll be debit cards and putting things down on lay away right?

But what would we do without doctors, diagnosis our own illnesses using wikipedia? I doubt that would be helpful.

For this reason I’m saying we should subsidize the students education. I would much rather have my tax dollars go to those college students who will study doctor school and pay for their education than GM.

They’ll pay us forward in the future by providing reasonable and affordable health care to us. They will have to figure out who can go to school and have a system in place to pick those most knowledgeable and determined to become doctors. Than the government working with insurance can set predetermined prices for various levels of health care and hopefully being that the doctor isn’t riled in debt til they’re 60 they will give us proper health care and we can afford it with lower payments.