Drug and Insurance Companies Play Big Role in Medicaid Costs
Posted on: Sunday, 17 July 2005, 09:00 CDT
The Medicaid issue has spawned a lot of vitriol directed at health care unions. In reality, they are organizations of people who care for our friends, relatives and neighbors in hospitals and nursing homes. They, too, are taxpayers. Many are the cleaners, nursing aides and kitchen staff who for years worked at near starvation wages.
The real price of health care has recently expressed itself in part through taxes for Medicaid. A portion of it is used to pay the hard-working, understaffed and unappreciated grunts an almost livable wage and a professional staff no more than those of equivalent education in the private sector.
Bitterness directed at unions should be redirected toward pharmaceutical companies, which oppose bulk purchases of medicine; insurance companies, which oppose single-payer coverage; and employers that deny employees health insurance. These add to Medicaid costs while subsidizing company profits. Save a large portion of vitriol for those who claim to "stand on the side of defending and protecting life" yet are willing to increase the number of people -- now at 45 million -- lacking health insurance.
Daniel Adanti
Springville
Source: Buffalo News
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