Health Care Policy

My first blog on the presidential promises will be on the health care policy that Bush has proposed. I have got most of my information off of the Web MD website. Web MD had Bush’s national policy advisor, Megan Hauck, come and answer some questions on their site. The first couple of questions she answered had to deal with health insurance. People are very concerned about this policy because it is not clear.

Bush’s health care policy has a plan to import all the prescription drugs. The problem with that is they are stored and packaged improperly. By importing medication, this is supposed to bring the cost of prescriptions down. Won’t this be bad for the economy? There goes Bush again making our economy worse. If he is not careful, he is going to fall to the worst president in History right under President Hoover. Why doesn’t Bush just have all of the prescription drug companies get together and do Horizontal Integration. Horizontal Integration is when companies that are alike and producing the same product get together and decide on a price that they will all use. He won’t, but instead issues a Medicare discount card, which lowers the cost by 60%. Well who is making up for that 60% that has to be paid? I believe that this will come out of the pockets of the middle class yet again. Another tax raise for the middle class is coming for this one.

Member of Web MD: “Does George W Bush’s health care plan address the issues that face pregnant women without health insurance?”

Megan Hauck: “The President’s health care plan is addressed for all Americans without health insurance.”

Bush wants to give us options for choosing prescription drugs by “lowering” the cost. He is lowering the cost for people who don’t have the money to pay for the average health care plan. “The average cost of a family health insurance plan in the United States is almost $10,000.” Bush wants to cut that in half with the Medicare discount card in order to give people that extra $5,000 dollars to use for improving their lives. That other $5,000 is what people don’t here about. It would probably be added to your property tax somewhere without you knowing. That is how they get money for most things. I do not like President Bush’s Health Care Policy. There has to be a better way (horizontal integration) to lower the cost of prescription drugs.