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There are many ways to lower your individual medical Care insurance outlay You can compare multiple offerings for the lowest price ... Source: www.commondreams.org --- 9 days ago
by Pierre Tristam For once, I agree with Republicans on Health Care reform. We should scrap it all and start over. Thursday's encounter between the two parties was good talking-point theater but awfully runny with repeats of the past year's parroting of a "government takeover of Health Care" and other dim-witted fabrications. read more ... Source: trueslant.com --- 14 days ago
As ideologues on both sides of the political divide drone on over how the Health Care system in America should go forward, a shameful amount of attention is being paid to developing new models for handling the problems we face in providing access to Care at a price people can afford. Conservatives remain duty bound to support a free market, consumer driven approach consistent with the fundamental tenants of their ideology. Yet, the primary expression of the free market approach to our Health Care system- the Private Health insurance market- appears to be reaching its natural end and will soon no longer be a viable player. Why? Because younger, healthier people, believing they have better ways to spend their money, continue to avoid expensive enrollment options while middle-aged, healthy participants are increasingly forced out of their insurance plans as a result of skyrocketing premiums costs. The result is a growing imbalance in the insurance pool that is already leading to losses in the individual policy category and will eventually turn the large profits to be found in the group insurance market into equally substantial losses. When that happens, and it will, our system will no longer operate on an insurance model because there will be no insurance available – at least not to middle class Americans. On the other side of the fence, the progressives see a single-payer, government provided Health Care system as the answer to granti ... Source: www.azfamily.com --- 18 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some lawmakers may soon wish Health Care reform had passed. ...
Source: bryanorourke.sys-con.com --- 24 days ago
Opening the NY Times this morning I read of record profits reported by the U.S. insurance industry in 2009. The nation's five largest for-profit insurers had a combined profit of $12.2 billion , according to a report by the advocacy group Health Care for American and overall the companies increased their profits by 56 percent in 2009, a year that saw 2.7 million people lose their Private coverage. As a student of economics I understand the theory of insurance as a form of risk management used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. An equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity (the person) to another (the insurance company), in exchange for a premium . But in Health Care, from a public good standpoint, can we really continue to allow Private companies to take the cream off the top of our imploding Health Care system ? What is the fear of the public option ? Its about money and corruption. The insurance companies conitnue to drive profits up amid rising costs by paying out less and less in claims while charging more for premiums. This is irrefutable. As the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Research Report showed , payments for claims as a percentage of premiums have dropped significantly in the past 14 years, while Medicare outlays have stayed at 97% (see graph below). The true reason the "public option" is so unpopular among some folks , particularly congressional types, is that when a publc option comes to the marketp ... Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 32 days ago
Following Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams's decision to have heart surgery in the U.S., Richard Baker explains the ins and outs of getting Private Health Care ... Source: www.cbc.ca --- 32 days ago
Despite holding public office, Danny Williams' decision to have heart surgery in the United States is a Private matter, says Rex. ... Source: www.cbc.ca --- 33 days ago
Rex Murphy says Danny Williams' decision to have heart surgery in the U.S. is a Private matter, despite his public office. ... Source: www.lvrj.com --- 39 days ago
LETTERS: Private insurance and Health Care don't mix ... Source: www.lvrj.com --- 39 days ago
To the editor: ... Source: hongkong.angloinfo.com --- 49 days ago
"Does anyone else have a Private Health Care policy here and if so would you be able to recommend it..." - Posted by kungfu. New discussion topic, posted at 01:41 ... Source: www.christianet.com --- 56 days ago
Private Health Care insurance is protection that will cover most medical expenses that are incurred by an individual or family. ... Source: politicsalabama.blogspot.com --- 60 days ago
In a recent report issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, they found that the Private sector is better at controlling Health Care costs than is government. First, they showed that overall spending on Health Care dropped in 2008 compared to 2007. http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/07/new-govt-report-demonstrates-superiority-of-Private-sector-in-controlling-Health-costs/ The headline was that the growth in healthcare spending “slowed” from the prior year. From a growth rate of 6% in 2007 to only 4.4% in 2008. This in fact represented the lowest rate of growth since the CMS first started reporting this data in 1960. This is a good thing, and it sort of casts doubt on PresBo and his liberal allies when they say that government must step in to control costs. But the report also found that government spending on Health Care INCREASED. Because in a year where the growth rate in overall healthcare spending dropped by an unprecedented amount, federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid actually increased dramatically from the prior year. Medicare by 8.6% in 2008 compared to 7.1% in 2007, and Medicaid by 8.4% compared to 6.1% in 2007. And Federal spending on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) increased by an even greater amount (13.4%). So what does this mean? If overall spending decreased but government spending INCREASED, where did the savings come from? The Private sector, of course. In other words, the reduced growth ... Source: www.islandpacket.com --- 81 days ago
"When you want it bad, you get it bad." That's the perfect description of the Health Care reform bill in the Senate. ... Source: www.deseretnews.com --- 84 days ago
As a retired family nurse practitioner, there were two issues in Sunday's Deseret News that I would like to address. ... Source: pajamasmedia.com --- 84 days ago
How far will we let those in Congress tighten it? ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 84 days ago
First, the shortage of family practice Health Care in Utah could and should be resolved rather easily by the Legislature eliminating the turf battle waged by organized medicine. We were able to do it in Oregon in the late 1970s, and it has been done ... ... Source: www.cepr.net --- 85 days ago
December 10, 2009 For Immediate Release: December 10, 2009 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- While there is much talk of intergenerational debt among DC political insiders, few people have an understanding of the debt figures discussed in current policy debates. A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that the $62 trillion figure most often discussed is actually due almost entirely to spiraling Private-sector Health Care costs. "It would be dishonest to portray projected debt levels as an issue of intergenerational equity," said Dean Baker , an author of the report and Co-Director of CEPR. "The problem is a broken healthcare system." The report, " Taming the Deficit: Saving our Children from Themselves ," shows that the projected debt burden is not a matter of money transferred from younger generations to older generations. Rather, this figure is a measure of debt that is largely costs that young people are expected to run up. The authors of the study point out that projections of Private-sector Health Care costs are likely to grow considerably larger in the near future. These costs will become unsustainable if they continue to rise at the rates we see under the current structure of existing programs. ### ... |
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Canada's public Health-Care system won't be sustainable in years to come as this country deals with an aging population, say two professors of economics. ...
Long lines, waits for Care, endless beuracracy: this is what happens when you move to socialized medicine, right? Wrong. For years, the Republicans in Congress have argued a socialized, government run Health Care system would lead to all of these things, but as China recently found out– moving from a socialized system to a Private market system, like we have here, has caused increased problems of accessing medical Care. A recent collumn by David Pierson in the LA Times is well worth a read and outlines the growing problems of the Health Care system in China. Appointments for the best doctors are normally snapped up before sunrise. Lines begin forming in front of the hospital’s six registration counters at least a day in advance. Communist China had a socialized Health Care system, but as many things in the country has been shifting toward a Western style with limited government involvement in recent years. This has created large disparities in access to medical Care between the wealthy and the poor and between urban and rural populations. China is taking action. The government has launched a campaign aimed at rural areas which will invest $124 billion in rural services. However, it may already be to late. Thousands of rural residents have migrated into the cities citing the broken rural Health Care system. Rationing is unfortunately part of the Health Care system no matter the level of government involvement. When put simply, there a ...
