sether

The Hypocrisy and High Stakes of Healthcare Reform

What costs are you talking about? Drug costs? Yes he did get screwed on that, by Medicare part D, written by pharmaceutical companies, in which it is ILLEGAL for the US govt. to use its massive buying power to negotiate drug prices. Thank you Dubya. Healthcare reform would deal with that in some measure I hope.


On Oct 22 03:46 PM TeresaE wrote:

> Congress "helped" seniors.
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> My dad's costs went from less than 10% of his income to over 35%.
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> He only gets $16,000 a year SS.
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> With "help" like that you can bet that this "reform" is going to
> fail.
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> Miserably and at a huge cost.

The Hypocrisy and High Stakes of Healthcare Reform

I'm not sure our system is the best in the world now, and I don't care. Civilized or 'developed' nations provide baseline minimums for their citizens in housing, food, education and health. I'll take any other developed nation's version of any of those things over ours, especially health, since we simply don't have it. And I'll take second rate health services over nothing; basic preventative care and maintenance. I know people WITH insurance for whom that is unaffordable.
A country that is interested in maintaining its place at the top of the world makes these kinds of investments in its people. That used to be common sense. Just the fact that we are arguing about this is proof that we are so, so f@cked.


On Oct 22 02:44 PM Steve in TN wrote:

> I read a NY Times article on Canadian health care system in which
> readers from Canada wrote in and stated that they prefer their system
> 10 to 1. I was surprised; but then found out that their system does
> not have enough specialists (too costly) so the Canadian govt. pays
> those that need specialists to travel to the U.S. and will pay 100%
> of their costs. The problem is what happens when we adopt a Canadian
> style health care system when our too costly specialists disappear?
> Where do we send our patients?
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> From Sether:
> "You can argue that America has the best Health Care in the world.
> That's at least debatable. However, millions of people cannot get
> it, or cannot get enough of it. Health Care reform will allow people
> to GET that 'great' health care."
> The problem is when those extra "millions of people" access our system
> will it still be the "best in the world"?

The Hypocrisy and High Stakes of Healthcare Reform

You can argue that America has the best Health Care in the world. That's at least debatable. However, millions of people cannot get it, or cannot get enough of it. Health Care reform will allow people to GET that 'great' health care.
Insurance companies simply stand between patients and providers, gobbling cash and rationing treatment. They are scumbag middle-men. Their business is making money. It has nothing to do with medicine. You watch too much FOX.


On Oct 22 12:45 PM CLH wrote:

> This whole reform is unbelievable. America has the best health care
> in the world. Does anyone go to Europe or Canada for health care?.
> Of course not. They all come to America where the health care is
> the best. The only way to cut costs is to privatise Medicare which
> is a bankrupt disaster.