A news article (linked here) in the Chicago Sun-Times describes the concern of transplant doctors at the University of Chicago Medical Center, who say their time is being taken up by homeless type persons who walk in off the street and demand health care services. Why are transplant doctors responding to the need? Presumably, you don't have lower level doctors at such a prestigious hospital. So Mrs. Barack Obama was involved in a program to get the needy channeled into more appropriate clinics.

This story tells you what is going on with health care for the needy. It shows the fraud that reeks through the whole system including propaganda in the media.

Not everywhere do the needy go to a prestigious medical center to see a transplant doctor for entry level health care. Often, there are clinics and hospitals which deal primarily with the needy. But guess what. Facilities for the needy are being shut down, because they depend heavily upon Medicaid, and Medicaid gets cut every few months to where it now pays half or less of the cost of providing services. Medicaid gets cut to "reduce deficit spending," after tax giveaways for the rich and Wall Street increase the deficit.

Here are some of the extremely obvious frauds.

Fraud One: In most cases, the needy are not being deprived of health care. When the transplant doctors are responding to their needs, there is something being done about their health care needs.

Fraud Two: Appropriate health care services for the needy are being closed down, not increased. And this is due to bureaucratic money saving decisions. Where do you find the fix in slogans like "single-payer," "universal health care," "affordable health care for all," etc.? Is turning everything over to the bureaucrats going to be the fix, while they are the problem?

Fraud Three: Medicaid was designed to solve such problems. Medicaid uses general practitioners for primary care providers, and they decide whether referrals are needed for specialists. Medicaid could have been increased to meet the needs of the needy any time. The opposite was done. So how is a push-button fix going to change the pattern?

Fraud Four: All proposals on the table call for increased services and expenses by assuring that everyone gets covered by some amorphous concept of insurance. This means that the present $3 trillion per year health care expense will increase to about $4 trillion per year (plus the usual 10% per year inflation for health care). Since society cannot afford a $3 trillion per year expense, which is the entire reason why the health care issue came to the surface, it won't be able to afford the new $4 trillion per year expense. This means cuts are going to be made; and they are going to be made the way they are always made—through more waste, fraud and abuse at the expense of the needy. That's what frauds means by "quality health care for all." If not, where's the rationality instead of three world slogans and fraudulent propaganda?

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