New Mexico Insurance

I live in New Mexico, where anyone else is running, a political function, with baskets of fruit, such as turnover, by the retirement of Republican Senator Pete Domenici, who aging and Capitol Hill since 1973.

The debate between the Republican candidate for the Senate - two current members of the US House - is already warming. In their first meeting, it seeks to provide, “outconservative” between them. Heather Wilson of the City of Albuquerque, marked himself a “general” conservative. She attacked Steve Pearce, downstater more a rural constituency, for his vote against the expansion of health insurance for children. Pearce consideration is that the “real” conservative, and said that poor children of the insurance would be “Hillary Care Lite … The start of medicine.”

W-a-a-i-t one minute. Vergesellschaftet medicine? For this remark, it shows Pearce ignorant on health care, and there are also many other candidates. Not to mention clones conservative Rush Limbaugh, arising out of control in the blogosphere, delirious, the government control over your private medical decisons. Maybe they need a little lesson on what “medical devices” is - and is not. And she might be surprised to learn that the United States already has a form of socialized medicine. But I jump.

Many people, including Pearce, obviously equated with “universal coverage, with the dreaded” medical devices. “Universal coverage only means that - everyone would have health insurance. Some allegedly by employers, for example, provides to buy private, and some programs funded by the state, if the arms, feet full. Universal coverage does not mean that the government would be that health care as “animal welfare” or “right” for the benefit of all, regardless of income or employment.

Despite the mandatory insurance would be the nature of the coverage would be to the individual. Choice of doctors and hospitals universal coverage to remain, as at present - by the nature of the succession planning of each - and in no small part by insurance. In some instances, insurance companies would be required to secure conditions that already exist and to end the practice of “Rosinenpickerei, only healthier for the reception of patients in their plans.

Another term, we mean a quantity above the “single payer.” Single payer is a health care system, universal coverage and comprehensive, with the government as the insurer payments. Everyone’s health care would have to pay, but for the public from a trust fund managed (paid taxes on both businesses and customers) would replace our current Multi-payer insurance system of society and its premiums. The single payer, the government is not the main provider of health care. It would be only the primary payer. There were also freedom to choose doctors and other health professionals, facilities and services.

Physicians should remain in private practice and are paid on a fee for service basis of resources of the State, so that they now paid by insurance. The government would not own or manage medical offices or hospitals. Single, the payer, what we have now with the traditional illness. Insurance companies are eliminated - no more problems with the guards refused coverage, and try to find doctors in the network. ” Questions that all leaders were released from hell HMO, and you will see how easy it is popular, it would be only payer, if all had.

If “medical devices”, none of them - exactly what the executioner is this? Simple.

It is a system of health care in all medical institutions are in the possession of government. Physicians and other health personnel for the work of the government and draw their salaries by the government. This model is described in the American administration and the veterans of the armed forces, which the government has, hospitals and health professionals are federal agents. It works fine for veterinarians, but whatever the fiery rhetoric, none of the candidates - or political party - socialize defender of the entire medical system in the United States.

So the next time you hear a candidate hurling “medical devices”, such as a flame thrower, you wonder if they have an idea of what they are talking about.

Martha Burk is the author of the book “Your Money and Your Life: What is the game is for women in the year 2008 and beyond”, which, in April.