Medicare vs Congress Health Care

Comparing Ryan’s Medicare Plan to What Congress Gets - New York Times

Paul Ryan said, "For future generations, what we are proposing is a personalized Medicare, a Medicare system that works exactly like the health care I have as a member of Congress and a federal employees have."

If the whole country had health care like the federal employees it would be pretty great. But what Ryan is proposing is nothing like what the federal health care system is seeing as the tax payers pay for it not them. And they get to pick what plan they want every 6 months I believe.

This plan that Ryan is proposing is going to hurt a lot of people. It's bad enough for people who don't have health insurance, especially in the big cities. People get discharged because the hospital considers them to be 'stable' even though the problem was never taken care of. I've heard of people who spend up to a week in the ER because they don't have health insurance and the hospital takes their time finding them a bed so that they can be admitted to the hospital.

I firmly believe in the fact that a lot of these things can be taken care of with Medicare, Medicaid and universal health care. With what Ryan is proposing all of this would be demolished and many people would be at the mercy of the insurance companies. I also believe that this country should focus more on preventative medicine. Many severe health conditions could be prevented with preventative medicine and if we encouraged people to take a daily vitamin.