I was passed an email that was basically trashing Hillary and Hillary’s proposed health care plan in particular. Frankly, I have not studied or read enough about her plan to really comment on it. And normally, I just let emails like this pass, but for some reason I felt compelled to respond to that one. Below is my response:
I’ve been thinking about this a little. One the issues with any health care plan is triage. Basically, there are limited medical resources to go around no matter what the system. So the question becomes how do we distribute those limited resources and who makes that decision.
Route 1:
This method would be by finances, which is basically in effect today. If you got the money, you got the care. Obviously this favors the wealthy over the poor and increasing the middle class