Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.
We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.