Health Care and Politics in USA
Last night husband and I watched the PBS Frontline's report on health care reform and politics in the USA.
The Frontline report revealed that insurance and pharmaceutical companies in the USA have so much influence in the Congress that there is no way the Obama administration can get health care reform passed in the Congress without making closed-door deals with these companies. I do believe that Obama wants to fulfill his campaign promise to not play along with the dirty politics but he is only one man against so many crooked and corrupted congressmen who receive bribes and campaign contributions from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It is no wonder husband says that it is not possible to find a righteous and honorable politician in this country at this time because of the high level of corruption in politics.
Before coming to the USA, I assumed that everyone have access to cheap health care because that was what I had in Singapore. But after just a few months in the USA reading about the high cost of health care for individuals and families, in addition to listening to husband's experience with paying for health care since he arrived in the USA in the 1980s, I realized that life in here is not a bed of roses.
All praise be to Allah SWT, we have been blessed with access to affordable health care since we got married. So many middle and low income families cannot afford to pay for expensive health insurance premiums and have to go to the emergency department as a last resort.
The sad reality is that people are not turning to alternative medicines e.g. traditional home remedies and Chinese medicine etc. and changing their high-fat and high-sugar diets, but choose to rely on expensive medicines to cure them.
The Frontline report revealed that insurance and pharmaceutical companies in the USA have so much influence in the Congress that there is no way the Obama administration can get health care reform passed in the Congress without making closed-door deals with these companies. I do believe that Obama wants to fulfill his campaign promise to not play along with the dirty politics but he is only one man against so many crooked and corrupted congressmen who receive bribes and campaign contributions from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It is no wonder husband says that it is not possible to find a righteous and honorable politician in this country at this time because of the high level of corruption in politics.
Before coming to the USA, I assumed that everyone have access to cheap health care because that was what I had in Singapore. But after just a few months in the USA reading about the high cost of health care for individuals and families, in addition to listening to husband's experience with paying for health care since he arrived in the USA in the 1980s, I realized that life in here is not a bed of roses.
All praise be to Allah SWT, we have been blessed with access to affordable health care since we got married. So many middle and low income families cannot afford to pay for expensive health insurance premiums and have to go to the emergency department as a last resort.
The sad reality is that people are not turning to alternative medicines e.g. traditional home remedies and Chinese medicine etc. and changing their high-fat and high-sugar diets, but choose to rely on expensive medicines to cure them.
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posted by Jiru at
11:10 AM
