The poor are not, created equal with the rest of us, who can, afford the healthcare plans, even IF those of who make over certain amount of income got six-percent's taxable incomes to help those in the bottom, the problem with the all-inclusion healthcare plan, with not every citizen being, included in the plans here, as the healthcare became, unaffordable, to the poor, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
After the elections, the costs of everything hiked up, and, the news of increasing the electricity usage fees, may cause another wave of hikes in everything; the Department of Welfare Sanitation's "the considerations of hospitals charging the registration fees guidelines", now, the individual hospitals can adjust the costs of registrations to get treated, cause the public to feel infuriated. To the people, under the situations of the costs of everything getting higher up by the days, this is, making things worse.
There was a clinic close by to my home, for many years, the registration charges stayed at $150 steadily, started in January, it'd, hiked up to $200N.T.s, as the limits of registration charges got eliminated, it's supposed to, get higher up more, and the neighbors are started to, talk about this matter, how it will make it harder to get the needed healthcare that they may require; my colleague went to a medical center for treatment and to pick up the meds for his progressive condition, he'd only gotten into the face-to-face treatment sessions, didn't get any extra work done on him, the costs is over $900N.T., if the registration charges get increased, then, his once-every-three-months meds pick up will only, get higher still. And now, getting treated by a physician became a thing of the rich, and we all need to, keep our own systems healthy, and, the poor now had no rights to get ill.
how the costs are still, going, up...illustration from online
The Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations said, that deleting the limits of registration fees to get treated is comply to the market economy, if a certain hospital is more expensive, then the patients will have the choices of going elsewhere for treatment. Problem being, that we're already, used to seen a certain physician, and believed that only s/he knew our conditions well enough, and most of us would select to get treated at a hospital that's, closest to where we, live. And if we now have to, go farther away from home, to get a cheaper price of treatment, it would have a huge impact on the time spent in getting the treatments we are in need of, becoming more troublesome.
From before, the egg shortages, the costs got as high as a hundred dollars per six hundred grams, and the cost of items hiked up in the shops too, and now, the costs of eggs had, dropped a little, but the costs of the shops, stayed, just as high, in the stewed food stands, an stewed egg costs $15, and a boxed meal is now, $100 N.T.s, or even, higher. I'd ordered up a keg of medium gasoline delivered, it'd gotten from $665 per keg to $680 then.
What post-election gave to us, is not a new leaf of spring, but the chillier winters of higher costs of things, are the hard days coming? I walked down the road the other day, a young mom was with her two young children of six or seven, headed into the breakfast shops. She'd asked them which one they want to eat at? The young boy excited pointed at the shop that's prettier inside, the mom told him, "this shop is more expensive, you can't order that many items.", the young boy nodded in compliance. This made me feel deeply, the costs of everything is elevated, we are all tried by inflation, and we all need to nickel and dime. Only the government is, without a single clue of how hard we're having it, and now, it's stripping us of our rights to get treated by the hospital when we fall, ill too.
Deleting the limits of the hospitals' charges for registration, the goal is to using the price to control the wasting of the limited medical resources, but, those living below the poverty lines will keep on living with the tiny ailments, and not dared to see a doctor, waiting until they worsen, wouldn't that be even a deeper impact on the resources of medical insurances? The Department of Sanitation & Welfares allowed the individual hospitals to set up their own percentages of increases for the registration, believing, that the medical facilities have the conscience to charge way up out of what's reasonable, but, without the restrictions of the law, human nature usually, can't withstand the tests.
This is exactly the same mindset of how the laborers fought for the days off being granted to them when the president, Tsai claimed, "you don't need to tell me this, go tell your boss what you're telling me", if the hikes in the registration charges of getting ourselves treated became too high, and we need to go talk to the hospitals, then, what would need our government for?
resulting in stillborns, miscarriages...illustration from online
There's the saying online, "the hospitals will save a bad guy, but they won't save a poor guy". This is the cruel reality of things, or maybe not, but, those who can't afford the registration charges at the hospitals, can only sigh about how they can't make enough money, to get the treatment they needed. A policy, a hospital, a tall wall, separated the ill and the healthy, the poor and the rich, the lower socioeconomic statuses of people and the higher ones, making the gaps between the rich and the poor grows wider yet, turned Taiwan into two worlds, one for the rich, one for the poor, and, those living in poverty can only, pray!
And so, this, is how if you live in poverty, then, you do NOT "deserve" the medical healthcare provisions you are in dire need of to save your life, because you can't afford to get treated, because the costs of healthcare is still, hiking up higher by the nanosecond these days, and, the government allowed the individual hospitals and treatment facilities to set up their own costs of registrations, and the teaching hospitals' fees are even, higher still, and so, all of us here, who live in the country where there's the "all-inclusions healthcare plan for ALL citizens", not all of us get the healthcare provisions we may need, only IF we are able to afford these rising costs of medical care, will we get, treated, and, forget about the Hippocratic Oath's "First, Do NO HARM", that the physicians swore to, that's not applicable here, not anymore!
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