Can The Government Health Insurance Plan Really Provide People With What They Need?

Published: 26th November 2010
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Health insurance coverage is something that seems like it would be fairly simple to handle but is a government handled insurance plan actually going to provide individuals with the coverage that they need. Some health insurance is already managed by the government and so it is easy to look at what the idea of government run health care truly looks like.

To begin with we can look at Medicare. This health insurance is designed to assist the aged to obtain the medical coverage that they require later in life, however there are many things that Medicare doesn’t pay for and still other things that it pays so little for that doctors shy away from taking patients with Medicare coverage. If you have a doctor when you get approved for Medicare they will keep you on as a patient however if you need to change doctors while you're being covered by this plan you are likely to discover that many refuse you because of this coverage. It's a real tragedy.

Medicaid is about the same. While it does supply coverage there are a lot of things that Medicaid doesn’t cover and also it only pays very little to providers which once again causes discrimination within the health care industry. Unfortunately this discrimination is caused by the failure of these programs to pay a fair amount to providers for services rendered.


Military insurance is also a PPO plan in the sense that you must see those doctors that the military specifies and they don’t allow many choices for alternative care or any treatments that are not specifically within the realm of a medical doctor. This limits choices even of those who serve our country and if this is the plan that the government is offering its own employees can you just imagine what type of coverage will be afforded to individuals who are not government employees?

Overall government run health care is a nightmare and one that American’s need to wake up from swiftly. While this might seem to be the answer to the complications plaguing the U.S. in the long run this really doesn’t seem like a good solution. The rest of the world has discovered the hard way that nationalized health care plans do not work and while many of these nations are changing back to a private pay health care system the U.S. is finally getting around to considering nationalized health care. How could such an advanced country be so far behind the rest of the world? It really makes you wonder what they hope to accomplish from a system which is failing in every other country in the world.


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