Healthcare Reform

So, today I had to go to the post office to mail a letter, it took me thirty minutes since there was only one person there to assist approximately ten of us. I didn’t mind the wait, and in all honesty I have to admit that the lady was working very fast under the circumstances. But there were, however, many individuals who were not too thrilled with the wait and were constantly making snide remarks. While all this was going on, one thought jumped into my head: “Is this going to be the future of the healthcare system in our country?”

The post office is apparently suffering quite badly from the recession; I also believe I heard that FedEx and UPS have put it pretty much out of business. But did even once, the government pause to think why this is the case? With time being of the essence and more and more people wanting things done yesterday, can we truly expect people to continue to use their lunch breaks in the post office? And tomorrow will that mean that we will continue to expect to spend our time sitting in a government run health care office? I am all for the health reform – I cannot begin to state how delighted I would be to see everyone get health care coverage. On the other hand, I have to be honest and state my fear in how the system will get abuse. Already our government run schemes end up being abused and taken advantage of. I can only imagine what will become of a government run health care program.

I think one thing that many people tend to forget is that currently our system is such that if someone was to fall sick the hospital has to offer its services. That is, that for the most part everyone is taken care of. There are programs out there that assist those that need the help that is required to get medical coverage you have to just meet the basic requirements. I think that one thing that frightens me is that currently as we are hurting to get out of recession can we honestly just jump into a complete overall of the health care program?

Our healthcare system is not perfect. It is not perfect in any part of the world. There are always shortcomings. I hear from my relatives in England how they don’t like the coverage they get in the UK; so I guess it goes back to the fundamental human belief in the fact that the grass is always greener on the other side.  I think we are in need of change, but maybe it should be in fine tuning our insurance companies instead of trying to re-haul the system all together.  I don’t have the answers, that is for sure, but I do think that we should not rush into any such programs in haste. Right now, our focus should be getting out of a recession and getting into the green. Maybe the money we are supposedly going to use to build this health program can instead be used to get us back on our feet. I firmly believe that once we are on our feet and doing better as a society collectively, we can then start to focus on fixing the issues of health and education that are prevalent in our communities.