Health care

There is a problem with health care in America. I will narrate an incident. A man came to a clinic with a hand fracture on a weekend and the receptionist tells him that if he came on Monday he will have his fees covered by the insurance. Else he has to pay. He thinks for a minute and say I can survive with pain killers and come back on Monday and he leaves. For me this was a shocking scene. Firstly it does not cost that much to bandage a fracture (we learn this at high school as part of first aid) and secondly a fracture is treated as an emergency (we learned that again in high school). But the hospital did not think so. The patient could not afford the price of bandaging a fracture and did not expect his fracture to be treated as an emergency. He went home and America is supposed to be an advanced country. Health care is not about paper pushing there is a human element involved and the word care is mostly forgotten.

Everyone must recognize that the human element must return to health care, in fact I would say, in every job. People are not documents. But health care reform should involve more support from republicans. Something is wrong in the senate too. Perhaps the human element is missing again. Both sides must reach out a little better.