Comments on: HEALTH CARE REFORM

By: John Pfanstiehl

John Pfanstiehl — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:45:29 +0000

It’s great to see a candidate propose end-of-life reforms.
Please also add to it tort reform (guess who’s paying for all those lawyer billboards and phone book ads)
and eliminating any procedure unless it’s been proven to be reasonalbly succesfull in that application.

By: Tony C.

Tony C. — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:06:06 +0000

Dear Sir.,
I will vote for the Senatorial candidate that supports the language of H.R. 676 !
When will this country prevent wall street profiteering from the sick? HR 676 will do just that and save our country $800 Billion per year, restore our economy, and in time heal this nation. All but a view of our elected officials from both parties represent for profit insurance corporations. Please look it up and learn how this 30 page easy to understand and implement bill, was taken off the table. It is Medicare for All at cost of goods and services.

By: Joe Grant

Joe Grant — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:16:10 +0000

In 2002, the Swiss government banned all new medical practices to control costs. The ban runs until 2010. Until then, a new physician cannot open a practice unless an old physician retires or dies. Efforts to save money by merging hospitals have created irrational allocations of specialty units. Alphonse Crespo, a Swiss orthopedic surgeon, reports that resources are now so poorly distributed that “because of the mergers, the distances between specialty units in some cantons are large.” Patients needing a urologist may have to go to another hospital. Patients have actually been put in helicopters just for a consultation. Researchers at the University of Lausanne report difficulties in accessing psychiatric care, rehabilitation care, long-term care, and orthopedic care. Rationing is more likely to be imposed on the elderly and those with “a poor level of social integration.” Researchers in Geneva report that outcomes from the Swiss reforms suggest that financing health care using social health insurance is more regressive than direct financing. If true, this means that social insurance systems like ObamaCare end up taxing the poor more heavily [gated, but with abstract] than existing systems in which most people pay for their own care and the poor rely on government programs.

By: Ken Sayers

Ken Sayers — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:39:48 +0000

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As a hospice RN for over about 10 years, I can tell you one reason more money is spent at the end. It is NOT because the body’s attempts at compensation are breaking down and the patients require more care. The main reason that I saw the costs were high was because the docs were, for whatever reason, unable to let their patients go. Either they were themselves, unable to let go or were unable to present the patient’s condition to the patient’s family in a way they could accept. Basically, we are not extending life at the end, we are prolonging death. Increase hospice support and fix home health compensation.

By: George

George — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:02:45 +0000

Yes we need Heath care. Was paying 2800 a month. Wife can’t work. Had to leave 100k job for 45k job. Getting ready for bankrupt now. 25 more days and I’ll have the insurance. All savings gone. Age 59. Vietnam vet. Wife has morphine pump and I had cancer. No it wasn’t agent orange. 7 years passed. About to lose it all. This not right.

By: Bill Britton

Bill Britton — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:36:32 +0000

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At present, two entities control healthcare costs: the medical community and the insurance companies, although the insurance companies determine those costs to a much greater degree. One indication of this insane union can be found when one examines his or her statement from an insurer for a medical procedure. The billed amount is often triple the amount that the insurer actually pays. In other words, the medical provider is “fishing” for the higher payment but will settle for much less. Until healthcare stakeholders, especially hospitals and insurers, move away from the profit motive, this situation can only worsen.

By: Roy L. Simpson

Roy L. Simpson — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:56:04 +0000

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If you go after registered professional nurses, you will have one in 44 registered votes is a registered nurse. And nurses know how and what to do to correct the healtcare system, we care for America every day in extraordinary ways that touch the soul and hearts of individual people.

By: Dametreus

Dametreus — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:34:38 +0000

We need healthcare reform, regardless of what others say. We need an infrastructure in place in many facets of our nation, and healthcare is one of them.