HMO doctors aren't impressed with one of the greatest cost-reduction programs in the world, preventative medicine. I have a condition for which I have been told to tend to it myself and if it becomes an emergency, go to the Emergency Room. What a farce. His concern is obviously not with a patient's painful problem. Once a government entitlement, especially in an area which is no longer affordable for working or retired people, becomes established, it is almost impossible to discontinue that program.
People come to depend on the system they live with, especially with the cost problems involved.
Now it's time for government to do something almost unheard of. They should come up with a truly creative solution to the American health care mess. It is my hope that the health care fiasco would become a very critical issue for debate in Election 2000. It is my belief that we need to get full disclosure on how bad this mess is before we can draw the attention of the average American working or retired person. And it is time to have some meaningful debate between those who advocate more government intervention and those who can develop creative solutions to help us get back on the road to genuine American health care.