Doctors Should Only Accept Cash

Expensive medical treatment combined with the rising demand for medical services is causing chaos. The cost of health coverage is rising out of sight and only the poor and rich are getting proper medical attention. Even with cash there are no doctors available to provide affordable health care. The middle income workers have no choice except to meet their high monthly medical insurance payments or go without seeing a doctor. The poor are getting a great deal with a Medicaid plan that provides free services. They are filling doctor's offices with the most trivial problem and go home with prescriptions written for the sake of the doctor's bank account. Those that have a decent job are going bankrupt because of this ridiculous situation. Workers with medical coverage are being hurt. I think it is time for a change.

I remember a time when a visit to the doctor costs three bucks and simple surgery was less than seventy five. It was all paid in cash. My salary at the time was only thirty dollars a week. The doctor was happy to have a patient and spent as much time with me as I pleased. My father died of leukemia after paying twenty dollars for each radiation treatment and my mother was treated later for blindness in one eye. They both paid their medical expenses on a small salary with no complaints .It was all done in cash.

Cash only payments must be returned to the doctor's office and hospitals. It would deprive them both of the huge checks they receive from government and medical insurance agencies. Cash would then become king and doctors and hospitals would have to lower their prices in order to survive. This would bring back the good old days of my youth when all you needed for proper medical attention was a job.

Getting medical attention to the penniless was the job left for our government. The multi billion dollar Medicaid program was formed for this purpose. It made the medical industry rich and left the average worker with the burden of buying medical insurance and paying higher taxes. The poor needs medical attention as much as the rich. But should they have the same opportunity to see a doctor as the worker who saves and pays for the visit. With Medicaid coverage the poor now have the big advantage. This is not fair.

It is impossible to provide equal and quality medical services to all regardless of income. Politicians and Utopians promise that they can put a doctor in every home, but it is just a pipedream. Free market forces can fill the medical needs of those that cannot meet the costs of superior medical services. It is being done in third world countries. There is no reason why their methods cannot be copied. There is a wealth of medical information available to those students that choose not to acquire a formal education. They could become the medical workforce of the poor. It would relieve the heavy burden that the ordinary worker pays for health coverage and go a long way to create a fairer world.
Melpol