HEALTHCARE
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” ― Walter Cronkite
People need to take personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices that affect their healthcare needs. Unfortunately, when it comes to healthcare, the issue is no longer about those choices but about healthcare coverage and insurance plans. Many in healthcare fieldwork work more with insurance forms and companies than they do with patients; that is not healthcare, that is insurance-care. As demands rise for insurance to cover everything and anything related to health, it simply drives up the cost for actual medical care and passes on the cost to others who pay for coverage but do not necessarily use it for menial visits. I advocate for more health savings accounts so that people can decide how they want to spend their money during medical visits.
Everyone should be able to access affordable medical care as necessary and needed. To do so requires government to get out of the insurance industry and the healthcare industry to not be insurance driven so that doctors can worry about their patients rather than worrying about insurance forms. In the instance of Lasik surgery, which health insurance does not cover, costs continue to go down as quality improves.