Posted by admin | Posted in Health | Posted on 15-01-2009
What will national health care cost us and what will be get from it?
The price of the new health insurance and health care system will include increased taxes. In some ways, it won’t matter who those taxes are paid by. If they are paid by the companies, they will raise the price tags of the products they sell, so the individuals will be hurt as well. If they are paid by the consumer, then the consumer will have less to pay for items, so the companies will be hurt as well.
When we look at the cost of any medical care proposal, we should also look at the costs of the existing medical system to make comparisons. In today’s medical system, those of us who can pay for health care subsidize those who can’t or won’t. Your health insurance premiums are higher because your provider has to raise the rates for those who do pay to make up for those who don’t pay.
The costs of our existing medical system include the cost of lower productivity when a worker is unable to work because of a medical condition he or she can’t afford to treat. The costs of our present health care system include the price associated with more kids growing up without a mom or dad.
One of the benefits or the present day health care system is our familiarity with it. It’s like an old car that has a broken driver’s door and a big gash in the passenger seat. We’ve gotten used to getting in the car from the passenger side and having a blanket over the gash in the seat. Another car will have problems as well. The car may be better or worse. That part is unknown. What is known is that the car will be unfamiliar and buying a car is a big commitment.
Once we make major changes to our socialized medicine system we will be unlikely to go back to the old medical system. Even if the new medical system is decidedly worse, we will be stuck with it. We may have higher price tags or worse care. We may be able to tweak the new health insurance and health care system and fix it or we may determine that the infrastructure is so poor that it too requires an overhaul.
National health care has the potential of boosting our economy. Many people who are currently shackled to their employers because of the fear of losing their health insurance, may be able to move on to better jobs or start companies and hire others.
Under today’s health insurance and health care system many people are unable to pay for preventative care. They often wind up in the hospital and get expensive surgeries that they can’t afford to pay for. These surgeries may extend their lives, but may or may not allow them to work again. An individual who gets medical care when the problem is a small one may be able to work and pay taxes much longer than the individual who only gets care when the situation is critical.
We should strive to create a system that keeps our workers working longer and our parents parenting longer.
Although we may have a health insurance and health care system that is broken, there is no guarantee that a new health care system will be any less broken. However, far too many people are hurt by our existing health care system for us to just throw up our hands and do nothing. If we can ignore the rhetoric and focus on the facts a better health insurance and health care system can be created that will not only benefit those who can’t afford health care today, but will make us all stronger.
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Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market? ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of course, more taxes to pay for it all. The alternative is to base reforms on what works in the other five-sixths of the US economy, where choice and competition increase quality and drive down prices over time. Can a market-based health care system work? We can begin to answer this question by looking at Lasik, a medical procedure that’s not covered by health insurance. And has gotten better—and cheaper—over time. “How to Fix Health Care” proposes three simple reforms that will put us on a path to a health-care system that’s better, more affordable, and more accessible. And get this—these market-based reforms can be implemented without creating new government programs or raising taxes. Approximately 8.30 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Meredith Bragg. Hosted by Nick Gillespie. For downloadable versions of this and other videos, go to reason.tv
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Will the health care reform that is going on make prescription drugs more affordable?The new health care legislation that is in the works—-it seems like many more Americans will have some kind of health insurance with this new legislation. I really don't know what to believe.
Will this new legislation help to make prescription drugs more affordable? I've been buying prescription drugs from Canada for a long time (cause many are cheaper there) but maybe I'll be able to buy them here now in USA per health care reform?
Thanks!
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The health care quality would most likely be lower.
The ability to get in to see your doctor would be less. It may take weeks or months to see the doctor you want to see.
The government would have more control over you and your life.
It's been that way in most other countries that have UHC.
Is this wimp for real? What a fucking fairy. Jindal = girly man
Jindal 2012!!!
Kinda a long question, so I will answer some of these.
1. You can go the associates route, as these are all general lower division classes & general ed pre-reqs. But you will need to transfer to a university at some point.
2.Financial aid is too broad a category to speculate on. The FA is up to each individual university/college.
3. 1 in 50 get into medical school on the national average.
4. All upper division courses are tough, it depends on you however, as to what you will find the toughest. If you love math, then calculus will be a snap; if you don't then may be that one will be tough. You need upper division physics, calculus, bio chem, p-chem, quant analysis, bio, often embryology, histology, etc depending on major. Look at the course catalogs.
5. Not sure what you mean, enter a specialty before starting work. You learn a specialty in residency. You do not work until you finish residency (not counting the tremendous work you will do as a resident)
6. Volunteer at hospitals (the term volunteer means no pay)–but when? Pre-med??? Once you are accepted as a resident you are not a volunteer–you are paid to be a resident (although not a huge amount).
7. Generally to a certain degree–if you get a degree from a nth tier school you may not get into med school. But many many schools are good in CA. You need to look at their med school acceptance ratios.
8. You are trained as a resident–that is what residency is all about–it is formal training. That's why it is so long.
9. Too long a topic for right now–totally different switch in direction.
10. Yes. Why? Expense for one; time commitment for another. In your own practice you would have to be available 24/7 forever. Legal liability for another.
11. Huge question. Yes & significant impact. Explore this one all by itself.
12. Possible
13.Possibly. However, just waltzing into another country & wanting to set up shop because you want to is not as easy as it seems; nor is running an enterprise with out some form of funding. Better would be to join doctors without borders or some other international aid program; although US doctors are not welcome all over the world.
The health care bill would make sense if we actually received health care. Mainstream doctors are useless! They treat symptoms and use barbaric tests and treatments instead of actually solving the problem by encouraging detox and analyzing nutrition and pollutants!
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Neo-con bullcrap.
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Abolish all the unconstitutional programs. Abolish Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act and the Federal Reserve.
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The federal government bureaucratic mindset is the root of our problems.
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Everything that Obuma has passed needs to be repealed … The Usurper was not, and is not qualified to be the President of the US, he is either a citizen of Indonesia or a Kenya born and not a natural born American. In ether case, cannot be president and therefore anything he has signed into law is void…
Obama is the enemy of America!