Comments on: Summary of Merged Senate Health Care Bill http://thepowerofa.org/2009/11/summary-of-merged-senate-health-care-bill/ Each day, associations create positive change in America and the world. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jon Marden http://thepowerofa.org/2009/11/summary-of-merged-senate-health-care-bill/#comment-63 Jon Marden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:11:04 +0000 http://thepowerofa.org/?p=1153#comment-63 One more item, this Christmas I am hosting three Europeans. I asked them about the Irish, English and French medical systems. Each of them had great words to say except when a person needs care for catastrophic diseases. Each of these people have private insurance. My British friend told me just now that he would never dream of dropping his BUPA plan. So, while we socialize medical care, they are moving more to private care/insurance. Each of these people are physicians!!!! One more item, this Christmas I am hosting three Europeans. I asked them about the Irish, English and French medical systems. Each of them had great words to say except when a person needs care for catastrophic diseases. Each of these people have private insurance. My British friend told me just now that he would never dream of dropping his BUPA plan. So, while we socialize medical care, they are moving more to private care/insurance.

Each of these people are physicians!!!!

]]> By: Jon Marden http://thepowerofa.org/2009/11/summary-of-merged-senate-health-care-bill/#comment-62 Jon Marden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:04:47 +0000 http://thepowerofa.org/?p=1153#comment-62 If in the 1960's President Kennedy suggested that we put a man on the moon by propelling a rocket with a large rubber band, the American public would have laughed and never elected him. Well, this legislation is a joke for several reasons: First, the drivers of medical costs are not insurance premiums but, rather, medicare/medicaid fraud & abuse, obesity, smoking and defensive medicine. In total, if this bill addressed these causes, health care costs would decrease by 50% in two years. Second, this bill (and I read every word) seeks to put government into role of controlling the financing of health care which is a recipe for a fiscal disaster. Third, this bill does nothing to increase the public health. A real joke thanks to the special interest groups such as unions and the poverty industry. If in the 1960′s President Kennedy suggested that we put a man on the moon by propelling a rocket with a large rubber band, the American public would have laughed and never elected him. Well, this legislation is a joke for several reasons: First, the drivers of medical costs are not insurance premiums but, rather, medicare/medicaid fraud & abuse, obesity, smoking and defensive medicine. In total, if this bill addressed these causes, health care costs would decrease by 50% in two years. Second, this bill (and I read every word) seeks to put government into role of controlling the financing of health care which is a recipe for a fiscal disaster. Third, this bill does nothing to increase the public health.

A real joke thanks to the special interest groups such as unions and the poverty industry.

]]> By: Maguire http://thepowerofa.org/2009/11/summary-of-merged-senate-health-care-bill/#comment-61 Maguire Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:27:18 +0000 http://thepowerofa.org/?p=1153#comment-61 The rejection of the public option by the Senate is very sad. There is a very large demographic of people that are being overlooked right now, and a public option would benefit them. Eva Mor author of (Making the Golden Years Golden) responded beautifully to a key part of the problem: “The administration of the existing health delivery system is bloated with waste and unnecessary cost. If information was shared by all providers of health services and all insurers by using computerized systems to store all medical records, it would cut costs and reduce errors that would save and improve lives.” http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107 To regulate costs in the medical industry and update the existing Information and communication technologies would certainly cut a large portion of spending, which has featured as primary complaint in this debate all along. I hope that when the two bills come together to be voted on the public option may make its way back into the bill. The rejection of the public option by the Senate is very sad. There is a very large demographic of people that are being overlooked right now, and a public option would benefit them.
Eva Mor author of (Making the Golden Years Golden) responded beautifully to a key part of the problem:
“The administration of the existing health delivery system is bloated with waste and unnecessary cost. If information was shared by all providers of health services and all insurers by using computerized systems to store all medical records, it would cut costs and reduce errors that would save and improve lives.” http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107
To regulate costs in the medical industry and update the existing Information and communication technologies would certainly cut a large portion of spending, which has featured as primary complaint in this debate all along.
I hope that when the two bills come together to be voted on the public option may make its way back into the bill.

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