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"AAMC Adopts Position On ?Medical Home? System Of Care" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-27 14:29:07

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has adopted a formal position on the “medical home” model of health care delivery which provides patients with a coordinated comprehensive approach to primary care. The position statement was developed and proposed by the AAMC Advisory adorn on Health Care (composed of representatives from within and outside the AAMC) and approved by the association’s Executive Council last month. In the medical home model of health care delivery the ongoing relationship between care provider and patient is essential. A medical home ensures around-the-clock find to medical consultation respect for a patient’s cultural and religious beliefs and the comprehensive coordination of a patient’s care among providers and community services. “Many Americans even among those with comprehensive health insurance feel ‘medically homeless’ and lost in a system that is difficult to navigate when they require care,” said AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch. M. D. “We believe the medical home model holds great promise for improving Americans’ health by ensuring that they undergo an ongoing relationship with a trusted medical professional.” -Every person should have access to a medical home-a provider or aggroup of providers to back up patients journey the system-with whom there is a continuous relationship. -Further research and evaluation of the medical domiciliate model is needed and more evidence must be gathered on how the model is best implemented. -Payment for the medical home model should appropriately recognize and recognise providers for prevention care delivery and coordination. -Health care providers should be trained to understand and apply the medical home model within a team environment. -The AAMC should work with medical schools and teaching hospitals to develop a better understanding of how the medical domiciliate model can be adopted in academic and community settings. “As the health care workforce is increasingly challenged to provide care for a growing population of aging and chronically ill citizens it is critical that patients undergo access to effective care for both prevention and treatment,” said Dr. Kirch. The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association representing all 129 accredited U. S and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems including 68 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and 94 academic and scientific societies. Through these institutions and organizations the AAMC represents 109,000 faculty members. 67,000 medical students and 104,000 resident physicians. Additional information about the AAMC and U. S medical schools and teaching hospitals is available at http://www aamc org/newsroom.

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"Hillary?s Healthcare Thuggery" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 00:18:56

This week it seemed that we all stepped into a 1992 measure warp: the Cowboys. 49ers and Packers leading their respective NFL divisions and Hillary Clinton proposing a government takeover of health care. I guess causing the Democrats to lose control of Congress once wasn't enough for her – she has to try to make it happen again. It is a thinly disguised attempt to crush a health care system that while far from perfect is still the measure best one on Earth. (And if you doubt that appraisal just ask all those Canadians and Europeans coming here for surgeries and procedures they cannot get at home where they undergo already made the mistake of trying government-controlled medicine.) Hillary's thuggery begins with compelling everyone to buy insurance paired with a "play or pay" tax on businesses that do not or cannot buy it for their employees. The former piece would require an enforcement bureaucracy at least as big and awful as the IRS and is a frontal assault on private property. The latter piece is even worse – its cost would crush small businesses and larger ones would simply pay the tax and be happy to get rid of all their health care expenses by shoving them onto government. Thus. Hillary gives companies a financial incentive to do the dirty work of instantly creating government health care for her. Then there are the heavy-handed mandates on private insurers which always drive up costs. Every time another person or procedure has to be paid for everyone else must be overcharged and pay to create the funds required to cover that depreciate. This is barely disguised stealing. We don't continue shoplifting which we recognize raises prices to compensate for that lost product. Yet with health care we have no problem doing this – surcharging some thus directly enabling and even encouraging the parasitic behavior of others. And it isn't hard to figure out where it all eventually ends – with the be change of the system when the be and cost of recipients outstrips the ability and willingness of the rest to pay. And naturally. Hillary claims to be able to pay for all of this by repealing the Bush tax cuts which will hurt the economy and actually lower government revenue as taxpayers shelter more of their income from the higher rates. The cost figures and the payment methods barely go the laugh test. Only the most moronic person could evaluate that it won't cost trillions more than claimed while any.

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"HILARY'S HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 17:51:49

Hillary Clinton unveiled the third part of her intend to ensure that all Americans have affordable quality health insurance. Building on her proposals to command in costs and to insist on value and quality her American Health Choices Plan ordain secure simplify and verify choice in health coverage for all Americans. This intend covers every American - finally addressing the needs of the 47 million uninsured and the tens of millions of workers with coverage who fear they could be one go slip away from losing their health coverage - with no overall increase in health spending or taxes. For those with health insurance the plan builds on the current system to furnish businesses and their employees greater choice of health plans - including keeping the one they undergo - while lowering cost and improving quality. Specifically the American Health Choices Plan ordain: 1. OFFER NEW COVERAGE CHOICES FOR INSURED AND UNINSURED:The American Health Choices intend gives Americans the choice to preserve their existing coverage while offering new choices to those with insurance to the 47 million people in the United States without insurance and the tens of millions more at risk of losing coverage. • The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive: Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health acquire Program (FEHBP). In addition to the broad arrange of private options that Americans can decide from they will be offered the choice of a public plan option similar to Medicare. • A pledge of Quality Coverage: The new array of choices offered in the Menu will provide benefits at least as good as the typical plan offered to Members of Congress which includes mental health parity and usually dental coverage. 2. POWER PREMIUMS AND INCREASE SECURITY Americans who are satisfied with the coverage they undergo today can keep it while benefiting from displace premiums and higher quality. • Reducing Costs: By removing hidden taxes stressing prevention and a cerebrate on efficiency and modernization the plan will improve quality and lower costs. • Strengthening Security: The intend ensures that job loss or family illnesses will never bring about to a loss of coverage or exorbitant costs. • End to Unfair Health Insurance Discrimination: By creating a level-playing handle of insurance rules across states and markets the plan ensures that no American is denied coverage refused renewal unfairly priced out of the market or forced to pay excessive insurance company premiums. 3. PROMOTE SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Relying on consumers or the government alone to fix the system has unintended consequences like scaled-back coverage or limited choices. This plan ensures that all who benefit from the system share in the responsibility to fix its shortcomings. • Insurance and medicate Companies: insurance companies will end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions or expectations of illness and verify high value for every premium dollar; while drug companies will offer fair prices and accurate information. • Individuals: will be required to get and keep insurance in a system where insurance is affordable and accessible. • Providers: ordain work collaboratively with patients and businesses to deliver high-quality affordable care. • Employers: ordain back up financing the system; large employers ordain be expected to give health insurance or contribute to the be of coverage: small businesses will acquire a tax credit to act or mouth to furnish coverage. • Government: will verify that health insurance is always affordable and never a crushing charge on any family and ordain apply reforms to alter quality and displace cost.4. ENSURE AFFORDABLE HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL Senator Clinton’s intend ordain: • Provide Tax Relief to Ensure Affordability: Working families will acquire a refundable tax ascribe to back up them afford high-quality health coverage. • check Premium Payments to a Percentage of Income: The refundable tax ascribe ordain be designed to prevent premiums from exceeding a percentage of family income while maintaining consumer price consciousness in choosing health plans. • act a New Small Business Tax ascribe: To make it easier-not harder-for small businesses to create new jobs with health coverage a new health care tax credit for small businesses will give an incentive for job-based coverage. • Strengthen Medicaid and divide: The Plan will fix the holes in the safety net to ensure that the most vulnerable populations receive affordable quality care. • open a Retiree Health Legacy Initiative: A new tax credit for qualifying private and public retiree health plans will balance a significant administer of catastrophic expenditures so desire as savings are dedicated to workers and competitiveness. 5. A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE PLANS THAT HONORS OUR PRIORITIES• Most Savings Come Through Lowering Spending Due to Quality and Modernization: Over half the savings come from the public savings generated from Senator Clinton’s broader agenda to regenerate the heath systems and decrease wasteful health spending. • A Net Tax Cut for American Taxpayers: The intend offers tens of millions of Americans a new tax credit to alter premiums affordable-which more than offsets the increased revenues from the intend’s provisions to limit the employer tax exclusion for health care and cease portions of the furnish tax cuts for those making over $250,000. Thus the intend provides a net tax cut for American taxpayers. • Making the Employer Tax Exclusion for Health Care Fairer: The intend protects the current exclusion from taxes of employer-provided health premiums but limits the exclusion for the high-end portion of very generous plans for those making over $250,000. 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"Tom the Redhunter said: In any healthcare system you can have 1 ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:27:41

Nobody really knows how many “uninsured” there are: Two different count Bureau surveys conducted in the same year determine the number of uninsured as A) 45 million or B) 19 million. The first figure is the one you comprehend about the second evaluate apparently entered the watch Protection schedule. Of those 45 million “uninsured Americans,” the Census Bureau itself says over 9 million aren’t Americans at all but foreign nationals. They undergo various health care back-ups: If you’re an uninsured Canadian in Detroit and you get an expensive chronic disease you can go over the adjoin to Windsor. Ontario and re-embrace the delights of socialized health care; if you’re an uninsured Uzbek it might be more complicated. Of the remaining 36 million a 2005 Actuarial Research analysis for the Department of Health and Human Services says that another 9 million did in fact have health coverage through Medicare. Where are we now? 27 million? So who are they? Bud and Mabel and a vast mountain of emaciated husks of twisted limbs and shriveled climb covered in boils and pustules? No it’s a rotating population: People who had health insurance but changed jobs people who are between jobs young guys who conclude they’re fit and healthy and at this stage of their lives would rather put a monthly health-insurance tab towards buying a home or starting a business or blowing it on booze ’n’ chicks. That measure category is the one to watch: Americans 18-34 account for 18 million of the army of the “uninsured.” Look there’s a 22-year-old and he doesn’t have health insurance! Oh the horror and the compel! What an indictment of America! Well he doesn’t undergo life insurance either or homeowner’s insurance. He lives a life blessedly remove of the tedious bet-hedging paperwork of middle age. He’s 22 and he thinks he’s immortal – and any day now Hillary will propose garnishing his wages for her new affordable mandatory life-insurance plan. So out of 45 million uninsured Americans. 9 million aren’t American. 9 million are insured. 18 million are young and healthy. And the be of these poor helpless waifs trapped in Uninsured Hell waiting for Hillary to bring through them are in fact wealthier than the general population. According to the count Bureau’s August 2006 inform on “Income. Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage,” 37 percent of those without health insurance – that’s 17 million people – come from households earning more than $50,000. Nineteen percent – 8.7 million people – of those downtrodden paupers crushed by the brutal inequities of capitalism come from households earning more than $75,000. In her schedule she speaks of how health care is the alter of every "American" — but she has a rather expansive definition of "American." In 2005. Hillary co-sponsored legislation in the United States Senate to offer remove health insurance under the State Child Health Insurance schedule (SCHIP) to the children of illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for five years. So those who have dodged the immigration cops for five years successfully would be rewarded not only with legal status and a path to citizenship but with immediate remove health care for their children. Indeed when Democrats and liberals speak of the 50,000,000 uninsured Americans more than one fifth of those are illegal immigrants. Thus about one in five of the beneficiaries of her program for universal health insurance are illegal aliens. (Illegal immigrants are a disproportionately large segment of the uninsured population because legal immigrants and citizens who live in poverty are eligible for Medicaid but illegal immigrants are not.) Hillary speaks of the importance of stopping health insurance companies from raising premiums on those who are sick. But she does not have in mind the inevitable flip side of her proposal — to increase premiums on those who are come up. On the one hand she would cover all those with chronic conditions with low be health insurance and on the other would stop insurance companies from "cherry picking" healthy and young populate for their insurance plans. The net effect would be a major increase in health insurance premiums for the vast majority of Americans. In effect her plan would turn "insurance" into "subsidy." The concept of insurance is that one pays a relatively low premium to guard against catastrophic expenses that are outside of our ability to meet financially. But Hillary's program would really be nothing more than a cash assign from the healthy to the sick not an insurance schedule at all. Hillary says that her program would give "universal" coverage for all. In request to bring home the bacon universality one must make the schedule compulsory. The bulk of the uninsured do not be to have to pay for insurance. They are healthy and don't want the added burden of health insurance. That is why about half of those who are eligible for free or low cost insurance under the State Child Health Insurance Program undergo not signed up. Their parents don't want to. But the main defect of Hillary's schedule is that it leaves out any attempt at cost control. With health care absorbing 16 percent of our economy. account Clinton's warnings of economic disaster if its overlap of our national income passed 12 percent approve in 1993 sound almost quaint today. Cost control is a vital part of any plan for universal coverage. Indeed without it extending coverage just offers a blank check to patients and providers which would control even higher the share of our economy that goes to health care. It was Hillary herself who explained this concept to Dick in 1993. The reality has not changed. Hillary will be forced to hold back costs as the implicit and vital element of any health care ameliorate. This control of costs belies her contention that she would leave the health care system untouched object to increase coverage to those who now lack it. Because she would be to limit utilization and displace costs she would be forced to circumscribe health care and to compel government mandated and controlled managed care on all Americans. For the first time the evince "no" would come into our system. Do you need open heart surgery? Are you a poor risk because of smoking or diabetes or age? No longer would the bureaucrat at the other end of the telecommunicate say "we won't pay for it" or "you don't need it" or "we can't fit you in at our facility." The answer would simply be no — change surface if you pay for it yourself you may not undergo one. It is this write of coercion that drives Canadians over the adjoin to the U. S in search of medical options denied them at home under their socialized medical structure. Now it would direct on both sides of the border. I anticipate we should expect nothing less from a person who says "we're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."She is targeting those who like her the entitlement population. Those that believe they are ENTITLED to free health care to drive a car to smoke remove restaurants. Free choice? Whats that to a leftist. Universal health care is in displace in all these advanced countries as a result of the expressed ordain of the populate. If you think messing with Social Security in the USA is a third complain just try being a politician in.

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"Socialized Health Care Debacle: UK Cancer Survival Rate Tied To ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 19:53:59

While Hillary Clinton touts the benefits of government managed healthcare there is a failing experiment going on in the UK with the same write of system. Cancer survival rate in the UK lag behind the European add up and the evaluate for the elderly is so abysmal it is called a ““. There are many excuses be given as to why this is happening but one common theme keeps arising substandard care lack of specialists in a system that does not advance their go and an unbelievably long wait time to see a doctor change surface in the case where urgent care is needed. This measure factor is the most often repeated criticism of socialized health care. It is the same kind of criticism being aimed toward the desensitise minds behind Hillarycare and the same kind of criticism that is leveled at the Canadian healthcare system. There may be a maximum 62 day act from urgent GP referral to treatment but this simply means the go away of treatment. There are instances where populate are waiting as desire as 16 weeks for post-operative radiotherapy a key part of their treatment which can maximise their chances of being cured. create by mental act that you have cancer and you try to alter your appointment in the United States today. act over 2 months? How about 4 for affix op radiotherapy? I evaluate not. The fact of the matter is that the health care system is expensive in the United States but the express of health care is not substandard. But let Hillary Clinton or the Democrats get their hands on it and you can be sure it will become another victim of a government bureaucracy run amok. Keep their socialist hands off your health care. Let them experience what you think and by all means choose IN 2008!

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"More OCRegister BS on Health Care" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 14:41:35

I’ve construe some pretty nutty editorials from the Orange County Register; but Sunday’s editorial took things to a new level. Demagogues preying on natural fears undergo created a false sense of urgency for government-sponsored medical system. A recent survey informs us that nearly 70 percent of Californians believe the state’s health care system needs study changes. It’s apparently such an urgent problem say pollsters from the Public Policy initiate of California that three fourths of those people are willing to buy into Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to heavily tax employers health care providers and individuals to fix the perceived problem. One might think health care is being denied these people. But virtually no one in California goes without health care. On August 29. 2007 the San Francisco Chronicle : “A preserve 6.8 million Californians nearly 1 in 5 of the state’s residents went without health insurance at some time during 2006,” according to figures released Tuesday by the U. S. Census Bureau. “Nationally a record 47 million Americans including 8.7 million children lacked health coverage,” the report said. “The story here is that the problem isn’t going away and it’s getting worse,” said E. Richard Brown director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “What we are seeing is a decline in employment-based coverage - it’s becoming less and less affordable for more and more people.” The Register editorial goes on to add: Government should revoke all mandates limiting insurers’ flexibility to meet market demand and in that way greatly reduce costs…  Without government interference people could shop for catastrophic coverage if that’s all they want rather than pay top dollar for broad coverage with low-deductibles. They’re kidding; alter? The problem with catastrophic coverage is that it does not proved any choose of preventative care. The coverage only kicks in once you have the heart attack not before when it could be prevented.  Catastrophic coverage only kicks in after your care sister or wife is diagnosed with stage 4 converge cancer as opposed to stage 1 or 2 where it is more treatable. Further since the catastrophic coverage is also expensive people are more likely to skip spending the money on their insurance and instead opting for the new iPhone.  If they get a catastrophic illness they just go to the emergency room.  If they can’t pay no worries those who are insured pick up the fiddle in higher premiums. But these two lines were the most offensive to me of all. There ordain be challenges even the free merchandise will struggle with such as expensive high-risk coverage for people with pre-existing bad health. But once the market straightens out for the bulge of us such issues can be dealt with more effectively and economically. Translation: You can’t get more Libertarian than that now can you?attach Landsbaum had more of the same in his column on Sunday. desire ago people bought health care the way they bought groceries automobiles or shoes. They shopped and stayed within budget. The current crisis isn’t that there are some uninsured. It’s that so many are overinsured. Third parties pay 86 cents of every medical care dollar according to Michael F. Cannon the libertarian Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. It costs $12,000 to insure one family for one year but that family has no concept of the cost paying at most a small fraction. Yet that family still wants more and state governments oblige by forcing insurance companies to sell as many as 64 different benefits ranging from hair restoration to breast reduction further increasing costs.“[F]ederal laws have created a health care system where patients are too often spending someone else’s money when they purchase medical care,” Cannon says. “As a prove. U. S patients bespeak too much medical care and pay too little attention to whether that care is cost-effective.”When populate keep their money and weigh their purchases they spend as much on groceries automobiles shoes – and health insurance – as they be to. attach. I’ve got a exceed idea let’s undergo a universal system of health care that helps everyone stay healthy and treats them when they are ill.  It really doesn’t make sense to ask somone to choose between food and health care. The problem with those that undergo insurance is the high cost of it. The cost of insurance has gone through the cover. Most Californians are sick of fighting insurance companies for everything–payment of incurred health costs for up-to-date treatment options for the latest drugs–and they’re tired of paying high premiums and high deductibles.

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"Hillary?s health-care nightmare" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:13:14

No sooner had Hillary Clinton unveiled her latest plan for universal health-care coverage last week than the Club for Growth was denouncing it as another act at socialized medicine. The title over the economic-growth advocacy assort's statement said it all: "It's Baaaaack: HillaryCare Redux." The New York senator and alter front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is known for many things. But in the recent annals of federal-reform plans she is beat known as the architect of a fiendishly complicated government-run health-care insurance system that was so unpopular the Democratic-run Congress refused to bring it up for a vote. In her second try at sell reform. Clinton says she's learned from her past mistakes. But for all her centrist-sounding makeovers and political disguise she remains a big-government liberal to the core. Her latest intend would put the all-powerful federal bureaucracy in charge of our private health-care system lock have and lay. The elements of an expanding government regulatory nightmare are all here: massive government subsidies higher income taxes and employer mandates to provide employee health-care coverage no matter what the costs a sweeping mandate that requires all Americans to buy insurance and a regulatory takeover of the health-care system from the states by the feds. "With each passing day the collectivist nightmare that is a Hillary Clinton presidency is crystallizing with frightening clarity," said unify for Growth president Pat Toomey. The plan she has proposed provides work details preferring to paint her campaign proposal with a broad rub. The details she said would be worked out by Democratic legislators that rule over health-care policy people desire Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and New York Rep. Charlie Rangel. But even at this early re-create her intend is riddled with ominous signs that HillaryCare II could be just as bad as the ill-fated intend of 1994 that many in her party could not stomach. How much would it be taxpayers? Clinton's price tag is $110 billion a year but analysts say her intend will cost a lot more than that. A similar intend offered by Sen. John Kerry in his 2004 presidential race would have cost about $1.5 trillion over 10 years at a minimum. Then there are the employer mandates in her plan with the heavy hand of the government forcing businesses to provide health-insurance plans for their workers. But forcing all small businesses to provide health-care insurance benefits for their employees would be a disaster for most of them. Most small businesses direct precariously on the acquire margin and government-mandated costs would bankrupt them. One of the least noticed but biggest policymaking changes in her intend would transfer health-care regulatory authority from states to the federal government. "I think it ultimately leads to more government-run health care. There is no way around that," said Charles Kahn president of the Federation of American Hospitals. Then there is the specter of price controls in her plan which would invariably lead to health-care shortages longer waiting periods and poorer service. "In her explanation of the federal rules. Mrs. Clinton says that national rules would help verify universal coverage preventing persons from being charged 'excessive' premiums while preventing 'excessive' profits on the move of insurance companies," said Robert Moffit director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. "There are no explicit price controls but obviously federal officials ordain be charged with making sure these objectives are met," Moffit said in an analysis of the Clinton intend. Clinton insists she would let populate keep the private plans they have now but move of her plan would allow Americans to buy into federal health-care plans -- putting the feds into direct competition with private-sector health insurance which is the backbone of the health-care industry. "If there is a public alternative to the private market the public market is going to undergo a hard time competing," Kahn told me. This isn't the direction that health-care reform should be taking. "Instead of socialized medicine," unify for Growth's Toomey said. "we should be deregulating the health-insurance industry and opening it up to innovative reform that increases competition and lowers prices making health care more affordable for everyone." For example: Arizona Rep. John Shadegg's Healthcare Choice Act which would allow insurance companies to obey with any state's regulatory rules and let them to sell plans in all 50 states is a needed reform. Another solution to help bring drink premium prices is to eliminate the costly web of government health-care mandates that have driven up prices beyond the pocketbook of many Americans. Let insurance companies furnish a broader choice of plans under a larger be of prices. In.

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"The Clinton Plan" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 14:05:59

Combining these factors with the all-you-can-eat nature of our insurance coverage – and you get rising costs. There are other factors of course but a lot of what I’ve read indicates these factors have a very profound cause. What does the Clinton system do to communicate the points above? According to her web site she ordain go away cutting costs through “modernization” – to the tune of 50% of the overall estimated cost of the intend – 53 billion of the 110 billion determine tag ordain go from savings through the “modernization of our system.” This level of savings is unrealistic especially right out of the furnish. If I’m right about that somebody is going to undergo to pay the final bill when the numbers don’t add up. Which isn’t to say our system doesn’t need modernizing - it does. But I’d question whether 50 billion in annual saving can be squeezed out of our current system through reforms and the removal of “hidden taxes”. The second be cutting measure in the Clinton intend is a bit more hazy but her site suggests the use of price controls. Essentially governmentally mandated lower prices on treatment or premiums with low income government premium subisides. Her site suggests two sets of determine controls – one is the actual be of treatment through premium caps the other may involve regulating what percentage of a health insurance / medicate affiliate’s income intake can be directed toward profit. The drug price regulation is a foregone conclusion based on her overview. How will health insurance companies compensate for this? One of the side effects of price controls is obvious - If price mandates are displace than the costs of development and operation of treatment those treatments will no longer be available and rationing ordain change magnitude the overall availability of treatments we seek. The third be cutting decide takes into account that 47 million uninsured evaluate Democrats like to impel around which includes about 20 million populate who don’t want health insurance. (Side note – another 12 million in that figure aren’t change surface citizens of the U. S..) The argument goes - force these people into the insurance pool and you decrease costs overall. This argument is accurate - forcing a lot of healthy populate into a pool system will lower costs overall. However the system also brings a lot of sick people (and ignores a number of illegal immigrants) into the system which ordain raise costs. So the net-net of it is we don’t experience how much this move of the Clinton plan ordain actually save the system. As far as tort ameliorate goes there doesn’t be to be anything in the Clinton plan at this inform to address it suggests Clinton will act a new “Best Practices Institute” which might play a part in this which would be a good thing – the best way to solve the tort air is to set treatment standards that can be relied on in court by providers when they get sued. So far though that hasn’t been spelled out in any candidates plan as of yet from what I’ve construe. This makes the Clinton plan a classic wealth redistribution system - adjust the costs on those that can afford it to pay for those that can’t. Within this context Democrats argue forcing health insurance on everyone is a collective good a “shared responsibility” – that the actions of the few hurt those of the many and therefore this justifies the added costs and government oversight into our personal lives. Personally I’d much prefer a system of reform that doesn’t affect the types treatments available and doesn’t furnish the government an excuse to invade my personal life. But that’s just me the rest of America will have to alter up their own minds on the subject come November 2008. That’s why Senator Clinton’s proposals to regulate the private insurance market are so crucial to the success of her come. Whether they offer their plans through FEHBP or directly to firms and individuals all insurers would have to follow new federal rules including “guaranteed issue” (that is they would undergo to furnish coverage to anyone who applies). “automatic renewal” (they couldn’t displace someone because they get egest) and “strong rating protections” (they wouldn’t be able to charge “large differences” in rates based on age gender or occupation). If the auto insurance industry worked this way when I was a kid. I could have saved a few dollars. My premiums where high because my driving record was horrible. Under a Hillary’esk auto insurance intend.

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"Bill Scher: Are You For Good Government or Bad Government?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 17:58:15

President Bush led his and with misinformation about the account in an attempt to give political cover to accommodate members who may risk their seats to bear on a veto. This has been and in the conservative movement but the effort has. And last week senators as well. Conservatives worry losing the SCHIP debate because they worry losing the entire health care debate when they decided they had to kill universal health care because "[i]ts passage will give the Democrats a lock on the crucial middle-class choose and bring around the reputation of the celebrate." Have you seen the pictures of the picketers outside the GM plants on various web sites? Many of them look like they are only a few years away from death's door. Too many cheeseburgers too many big gulps too many beers and maybe too many cigarettes. The workers need to act more responsibility for their own state of well being. Before these guys pop off they ordain undoubtedly subject many thousands of dollars of medical expenses. By all means grow the children's health care program. The kids didn't undergo a choice about coming into the world. Wile we are increasing cigarette taxes to pay for an expanded S-CHIP program increase the Federal tax on alcoholic beverages compel a Federal restaurant tax and a Federal eat food tax to disapprove bad eating and drinking habits. Besides the Feds need the money to pay for Medicaid for the poor. come up. It would be nice to verify all the children in this country. But how can a egest parent care for their children. The adults need it as much if not more than the children. So we need to go to national health care desire all the other civilzed countries in the world do. But it is becoming apparent more each day that we are not civilized at all. Bush and his cronies are mean spirited evil people. They are not christians. And I mean all conservatives not just neo cons whatever that means. Conservatives are for slashing programs for anybody who needs a helping hand. Remember Raegans ketchup is a vegetable educate lunch. They be tax cuts for the rich and forget the rest of us. Basically. They suck. Government is good for 99% of americans. It is bad for the 1% who are rich. It assures that everyone gets a little even if it is not a fair share. It prevents the rich from monopolizing and stealing every single dime from everyone. Sharing = jesus = good. Pure capitalism is getting money at any be. The individual is all important more so than the group. Pure capitalism = republican = evil. We be more good government to protect us from the rich. The only logical conclusion to pure capitalism is that one or two at the top eventually have all the money. That is when the little guys realise there's 100,000,000 of us and only one of him and they kill him and go away over. It usually takes around 200 years and happens over and over. Unless the republicans can be exposed for what they really are in a way that simple people (50% of populate are below add up) can truly understand (which is why the GOP is so successful with simple slogans simple people understand what they are saying they don't understand what intelligent people say so be to side with what they can at least understand as opposed to what they don't) what is really going on then revolution will be inevitable. Bullshit!Government can't get it alter ever. Just look at the examples readily in hand right here in our country in the last 20 years. Most of you desire to hit Bush as if he were solely responsible for the Katrina boondoggle but the sad truth is waiting on the government to fix your problems is going to create situations desire that. Veterans health benefits? Handled by the government. Bankrupt Social Security? Handled by the government. Medicare? Handled by the government. Welfare? Handled by the government. No Child Left Behind? Handled by the government. Civil infrastructure? Handled by the government. Do we see a trend yet? Another bureaucracy is not the say. Health care for all sounds soooo beautiful when you say it like that but it isn't going to work. All the failing entitlements we've already created can attest to that but it seems obvious that we are going to forge ahead with it anyway and add yet another bazillion dollar entitlement. And how are we going to pay for it? Why we will increase taxes of course. As if I really want to give another few hundred dollars a month to a government that can't fucking actually deliver it no matter who is in office. Why you guys are so willing to furnish your money to politicians is beyond me. Ok jake106,Veterans health benefits which incidentally Bush and the Republicans has cut several times since taking office are how much worse than the zero health benefits of 46 million Americans?Social Security is not impoverish and will not be until 2047 as it is. The only reason it is in peril of failing at that date is because of the furnish tax cuts. Social Security is far from being a failure. It is the most cost effective and dependable component of a retirement plan.

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