| There are several health care issues that are in | | | | to fathom when there are so many sources of |
| the news and in the minds of many people these | | | | cheaper medical care. |
| days. Perhaps because of the push for universal | | | | Other health care issues involve preventative |
| health care, misuses of the current health care | | | | medicine. Insurance companies do not all support |
| system have come to light. The health care | | | | the patient's right to preventative medical |
| issues that plague Americans need to be | | | | screening procedures and treatments. This also |
| addressed with intelligent debate and | | | | makes health care more expensive in the long |
| understanding. | | | | run. |
| One of the health care issues is the overuse of | | | | Many health care issues revolve around the older |
| emergency rooms by the poor. It is not their | | | | population. There are so many elderly people who |
| faults. They are simply responding to a situation in | | | | are given little or no help with their prescription |
| which they have no other recourse. For example, | | | | medications. Insurance companies make drug |
| a low-income family may have a child with a cut | | | | coverage available - at a price that is so high that |
| finger. If they had insurance, the parents would | | | | most seniors cannot afford it. This does little to |
| take the child to a doctor's office or an urgent | | | | resolve these health care issues. |
| care clinic to get the finger stitched up. | | | | With all the health care issues that are in the |
| Since they have no such option, they take the | | | | public eye, there needs to be a better system of |
| much more costly route of going to the | | | | communication on these subjects. People can |
| emergency room for the same service. This puts | | | | have an impact on their health care system if |
| a strain on emergency rooms and costs | | | | they know where to have their ideas on health |
| taxpayers much more than if the poor families | | | | care issues heard. It is time for the government |
| were given adequate medical coverage in the first | | | | and other organizations to give them a voice. |
| place. Health care issues like this one are difficult | | | | |