Health junction

National health care, that is what Americans need, NO! vested interests said, rationing will come, We won�t be able to get the extra labs we love, Planned delivery in our health system indeed. Better to have legions showing up at the ER Without insurance or basic primary care, How much longer must the poor and vulnerable wait, Until Medicaid funding is no longer there? Health care is a business claimed the suppliers, What would we do if we lose some of our buyers? Better risk management of course, that�s what we need, Excluding high-risk cases said company greed, Drug distributors are worried about their pipeline, New dependencies to create for the consumer, Sure to fuss over medication change rumors, Reduced supply increase the consumer whine, Everything available to everyone does not work, When we ought to give the right treatments without shirk. Pass through taxes from under funding payers, Paying much higher premiums for unfunded care, Let�s continue to spend twenty-five percent mo...

Last month our illustrious president, George Bush voted not to provide health care for 900,00 low income children by vetoing the expansion of the Supplemental Childrens Health Insurance Plan, known as SCHIP. According to the nonpartisan nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2005 there were 46.1 million people under the age of 65, without insurance in the United States. Of that group, only 25% are eligible for state Medicaid programs, including the SCHIP. Fifty six percent of the uninsured are not eligible for public health care programs but need financial assistance to purchase health insurance or health care. This means that if you are a family of four and earn more than $20,650, you are over the Federal Poverty Level. The SCHIP guidelines allows families earning no more than 200% of the FPL rate or $41,299, to apply for Medicaid coverage for their children. The proposed federal expansion for SCHIP would have allowed families with incomes up to 300% of the federal poverty level (abou...