Thursday, October 18, 2007

Health Care Advocates

Something like this demonstrates the extreme disparities we have in our health care system today. There is now a profession where you can charge $150 an hour, $3,000 a year, or $30,000 for a lifetime membership to someone who can consult with you on your medical services. That's all well and good, but there are people out there struggling to buy and receive medical care out there, so why are we creating new professions for the affluent to navigate this care? Shouldn't this be a model we use for the low-income people, who have to fill out endless Medicaid forms and don't even know where to go to the doctor when they're sick? It kind of shows how fucked up things are.

1 comment:

sam said...

Hmmm... people hire travel agents even though the poor don't have cars. Health care advocates do not take away health care $$ and they may make the system more accountable.

What's 'fucked up' is that you have a blog. And that you can vote.

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