One of the little discussed problems facing both Canadian citizens and United States citizens is the access to affordable health insurance and medical health care. Both countries revel now in the fact that they have finally joined forces and have a unified universal health insurance plan. The United States very recently joined the ranks of one for all and all for one.
It seems that both government entities revel in the cost savings in terms of monetary value, but overlook the actual delivery system of their respective health care. Does having a health insurance policy guarantee you medical health care coverage? How many individuals will now be mandated to carry a health insurance policy that is virtually useless to the individual?
Would you buy the best, safest automobile on the market only to park it in your drive way and never drive it out on the road? Would you prepare a banquet of delicious food only to sit down and stare at it?
In Canada and now in the United States, every citizen is mandated to carry and pay for a health insurance policy, but it still does not mean you will have access to the health care delivery system. There are many individuals and families in the United States who have adequate and affordable health insurance, but they have no access to a medical health care physician.
Other citizens are underinsured or uninsured, some because they have no other alternative, some because they have no reason to purchase health insurance. Many individuals go cradle to grave and never see a medical health care physician and have never stepped inside a hospital facility.
Many of the wealthy citizens in the United States have always prided themselves in paying for their medical health care needs because they have the money. How did the health insurance industry get its start? It certainly was not created to help those who could pay for themselves. The entire health insurance industry began to help the poor in the communities across the country gain access to affordable health insurance coverage as the cost for medical health care increased.
In Canada and in the United States it was a means for the poor to afford genuine health care assistance by paying a monthly fee to a centralized location and in return, they would receive the necessary medical health care assistance as the opportunity arose. What will we the people be left with now?