Hucksterteeth post

Written by: pinetrees on Mar 15, 2008 3:00 PM EDT

For some reason, the software was not displaying all of the comments or accepting comments, so I am writing here.  This post is a perfect example of the reason why neither Hillary's health care plan nor Obama's will work.  As long as there is a system of bureaucrats evaluating what income and expenses are allowed and disallowed in determining benefits, people will be left behind without health care.  A person who r eceives a few extra dollars by giving blood could lose eligibility for a social services program.  Similarly, would the state require a person to donate blood for pay in order to reach an income level that kicks him out of a social services program? Our tax money, federal and state, is paying for enormous social services bureaucracies.  But how much of the social work time is devoted to actually providing a service and how much time is spent reviewing applications and denying people benefits for arcane and even false or correctable reasons.  Then people are forced into lengthy appeals processes that they may not understand.  (When disabled people apply for Social Security, they often get a denial and have to go to a lawyer, so look at all of the Social Security money that goes to paying back the attorney because the agency tries to deny benefits to people.) For HUD to scrutinize something as trivial as a whether a person gave blood is an example of how far these agencies will go to find ways to exclude people.  We don't want the same situation to occur in a national health care plan.  Instead of health care, we would be paying for offices full of caseworkers deciding massive numbers of appeals cases.  (My personal opinion is that the government could also save a great deal of money if every elderly person received the same Social Security payment, rather than keeping track of the wages every person earned throughout one's life and individually determining everyone's benefit amount.  The amount could increase with every year of aging, so a person age 90 gets a lot more to help with the nursing care expenses.)

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