Comments on: Expensive Health Care http://www.bloggernews.net/122651 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: against obama care http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1534627 against obama care Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:01:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1534627 I think it should be up to the person if they want health care or not. it should not be up to the government. This is America. There are alot of things in this health care that should not be, like tax payers paying for abortions? I mean are you kidding me? If they would start drug testing parents that are on welfare I bet that would save us a tremendous amount of money. I think it should be up to the person if they want health care or not. it should not be up to the government. This is America. There are alot of things in this health care that should not be, like tax payers paying for abortions? I mean are you kidding me? If they would start drug testing parents that are on welfare I bet that would save us a tremendous amount of money.

]]> By: lets do it http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1491981 lets do it Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:14:34 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1491981 Root cause of expensive health care 1.Third party bill: patients are not responsible for their bill. Lets make them responsible. lets educate them. Let every medicaid patient take some medical education course to qualify for medicaid. What to do? Which doctor to go when they are sick. There should be compliant score and BMI requirement for medicaid applicants. Lets give discount to private insurance patients like driving insurance discount for health courses, good BMI, good compliant patient. 2. malpractice lawsuits: lets freeze malpractuce lawsuits for atleast five years. Let good doctors survive and bad doctors vanish with their reputation. 3. Lawmakers, please be honest with american people. 4. Lets run healthcare by health care provider 5. Lets tax 90% if any healthcare provider make above 500000. Root cause of expensive health care
1.Third party bill: patients are not responsible for their bill. Lets make them responsible. lets educate them. Let every medicaid patient take some medical education course to qualify for medicaid. What to do? Which doctor to go when they are sick. There should be compliant score and BMI requirement for medicaid applicants. Lets give discount to private insurance patients like driving insurance discount for health courses, good BMI, good compliant patient.
2. malpractice lawsuits: lets freeze malpractuce lawsuits for atleast five years. Let good doctors survive and bad doctors vanish with their reputation.
3. Lawmakers, please be honest with american people.
4. Lets run healthcare by health care provider
5. Lets tax 90% if any healthcare provider make above 500000.

]]> By: Legal Aid http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1427283 Legal Aid Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:44:17 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1427283 Authorities must find ways on how to improve health care programs by finding permanent solution. They should find the root cause of the problem. Authorities must find ways on how to improve health care programs by finding permanent solution. They should find the root cause of the problem.

]]> By: Wellescent Health Blog http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1426418 Wellescent Health Blog Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:42:29 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1426418 Though the government is constantly blamed for the inefficiencies that have caused the current unmanageable health system, the health providers and health insurers are the ones who are responsible for the majority of the issues with the current system. Their inability to make the system affordable and efficient has to be considered as a real part of the problem. There is no logical reason to label the US government so inept that it couldn't run a health system with same efficiency as many other countries that also maintain equivalent or better health care. Given how bad the current system is, the government could be moderately inefficient and still attain savings over the current system. Though the government is constantly blamed for the inefficiencies that have caused the current unmanageable health system, the health providers and health insurers are the ones who are responsible for the majority of the issues with the current system. Their inability to make the system affordable and efficient has to be considered as a real part of the problem.

There is no logical reason to label the US government so inept that it couldn’t run a health system with same efficiency as many other countries that also maintain equivalent or better health care. Given how bad the current system is, the government could be moderately inefficient and still attain savings over the current system.

]]> By: AC http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1426271 AC Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:52 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1426271 If cost cutting is what is desired, then what we really need is a US version of Britain's National Health Service. We would need a bit more than $900 billion per year to fully fund a US version of the British National Health Service (universal health care) - $900 billion per year in total, not $900 billion in addition to our current spending. In 2007, the combined Federal, State, and local government expenditure on health care was $1035.7 billion. So, we can fully nationalize health care with the US National Health Service, and cut government health care spending by about $100 billion per year at the same time. No additional tax source is needed. Additionally, adopting a US version of Britain's National Health Service will free up more than $1.2 trillion per year in private funds no longer needed to pay for private health care expenditures. The bottom line is that we are already paying for universal health care, we just aren't receiving it. /Data from: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; the U.S. Bureau of the Census; and the UK NHS If cost cutting is what is desired, then what we really need is a US version of Britain’s National Health Service. We would need a bit more than $900 billion per year to fully fund a US version of the British National Health Service (universal health care) - $900 billion per year in total, not $900 billion in addition to our current spending.

In 2007, the combined Federal, State, and local government expenditure on health care was $1035.7 billion. So, we can fully nationalize health care with the US National Health Service, and cut government health care spending by about $100 billion per year at the same time. No additional tax source is needed.

Additionally, adopting a US version of Britain’s National Health Service will free up more than $1.2 trillion per year in private funds no longer needed to pay for private health care expenditures.

The bottom line is that we are already paying for universal health care, we just aren’t receiving it.

/Data from: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; the U.S. Bureau of the Census; and the UK NHS

]]> By: brentrjones http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1425794 brentrjones Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:26:11 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122651#comment-1425794 Health care costs rise because providers (doctors and hospitals) raise prices to make profit. They waste resources by purchasing million dollar scanning machines within a few miles of another. No thought is given to conserving resources. They call themselves non-profits. Bullcrap. Health care costs rise because providers (doctors and hospitals) raise prices to make profit. They waste resources by purchasing million dollar scanning machines within a few miles of another. No thought is given to conserving resources. They call themselves non-profits. Bullcrap.

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