There is some truth
There is some truth to analogy of the bucket keeping the floor dry but the roof continuing to rot.
The problem with American Medicine is: Overpaid doctors, overpriced drugs, overpriced medical equipment, overpriced insurance, too many over paid lawsuits, and the unwillingness to acknowledge they are overpaid and overpriced. I have been a local hospital board commissioner and I presently sit on the local finance committee of the local hospital and these are my personal observations. Its all called one thing: Greed.
The poor do pretty well in American Medicine, the rich do well because they have money, the upper middle class do okay, but the lower middle class and upper level poor are just getting ripped off by the medical establishments.
One day the roof is going to cave in and government will be forced to take over medicine by establishing strict guidelines from top to bottom. Doctors will be screaming, producers of drugs and medical equipment will be screaming, lawyers will be screaming, insurance companies will be screaming, and the quality of medicine will slip slightly.
This bill is samo, samo, both parties are equally as quilty of using the "catch the drip" method. The emphasis is a little different in each party but its all "catch the drip" rather than really getting in and attacking the problem.
We will eventually have something similiar to the English or Canadian Medical programs, because the roof caved in.
Keith
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