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Essay on Hmos: Making A Killing

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FACT: Currently 46 million Americans live without any health care insurance whatsoever.

FACT: The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide health care insurance for all of its citizens.

FACT: The United States spends more money per person on health care than any other nation in the world.

FACT: The World Health Care Organization has ranked the United States 37th in the world regarding the health care a country provides for its people.

FACT: No country in the history of the earth has provided universal health care coverage for all its citizens under a private health care insurance system.

The facts stated above are not only embarrassing and frightening; they are simply unacceptable. How our …show more content…

One example of a single-payer health care proposal that is already out is entitled “Physician’s Proposal” and was first published in New England Journal of Medicine in 1989 and then later in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1991. Under this plan every citizen would be covered for all necessary medical procedures including rehabilitative, long-term care, mental health care, dental care, prescription drugs, and medical supplies. Under the plan, every person would have access to local personalized care from the doctor of his or her choice. Physicians would still operate in the private sector; the whole scheme would provide for different payment structures for health care providers, this would be to minimize the disruption of the existing system. The scheme would be designed to prevent profit motives from affecting doctor’s decisions. Gone would be the incentives that HMOs give their doctors for NOT recommending treatment for patients.

The largest obstacle between you and me, the American citizen, and universal health care insurance is corporate greed. Jamie Court and Francis Smith have authored an intelligent and well-researched study entitled “Making A Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health”. In it they state that American medicine is currently in

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