Health Highlights: June 18, 2009

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Blcvdqcp of MT 7:15PM July 15, 2009

Doesn't matter how much he funds. The plan is still the same, not totally self assured. Not fully what we need! There is a Law out there that is spreading like a wild fire. However, it is a matter of fact that in our freedom of living in America. We need to start taking responsibility for ourselves in our retirement due to the lack of our security for retirement just a few years back we all got statements saying we should start putting money away for ourselves to have a more sure foundation of retirement, because you may not see so-so, social security.
So now what with health, it's not necessary these plans that we eventually need to pay back! Nothing is free! So being self assured and insured in ourselves....Just take care of yourself anyways and get a Long term plan, that you pay for rather than a temporary limited needs of medical that isn't at all what it seems to be. Right now I don't have all my homework to tell you the specifics, but yes, it's about time we start paying our own plans and future sicknesses and mishaps because. As far as being self sufficient. That's the way things are looking up to be in these days and age. Our resources are falling out of our reach while we sit around complaining if these funding for health care is even beneficial. Like I said nothing is free, eventually you will need to pay it all back. If not than whom ever is there to go after closest to you, to pay off those medical debts.
Quit sitting around and complaining about whether the government or state is going to take care of us. Go get Long Term Care and get your own basic medical plan. Go learn, go find resources that are out there and does not have anything to do with weather or not the medicare or medicaid will be funded, because guess what? They will still remain the same old limited care providers and we will still complain, while still be unsecured. Do you know what your paying for in the first place when you are with medicare or medicaid? That many of countless people think it's free!?

Francine of HI 2:10AM June 19, 2009

Insurance is NOT health care! Insurance spreads the cost of health care across a group of people because it's too much for any one person to pay for. Insurance would not be necissary, and at one time wasn't necissary because it WAS affordable. There's not ENOUGH competition in health care to bring costs down. There are so few doctors and nurses coming out of school, there are so few hospitals built to handle patient load -- it's no different than regulating the cost of oil like OPEC does. Regulating graduates to keep medical costs or degree students pay high is market manipulation. All these insurance companies need to go... I'm not paying a DIME into insurance and will pay for my own health care.

Mark Thompson of DC 11:49PM June 18, 2009

The fact that costs would go up in the absence of inflationary pressure is a telling reminder of why any government healthcare plan that involves "insurance" will bankrupt us. I believe that the government should not create a system in which benefits (and taxes to cover them) are constantly having to be increased because they chase rising costs. Instead of chasing costs, why not cap and throttle them first?
One approach might be to treat medicine as a public utility or, better yet, why not create a healthcare system that is the equivalent of a branch of the military ? Doctors and healthcare workers could enlist for a hitch of,say, 4 years and be paid at a military rate. (with promotions and enlistment renewals available). In return, these professionals would enjoy regular sovereign immunity from lawsuits and could receive personal benefits like loan forgiveness. As a "military department", the government could then procure facilities and drugs. This department of medicine could provide health care to the uninsured, the poor, and could even absorb medicare and medicaid.Funding could be transferred from these old programs to the new department, while patients could pay a flat fee. Private practitioners could continue to serve patients with the money to spend on such care, and health insurers could continue to sell policies. R&D would continue just as it does for the weapons manufacturers.
The problem with the proposals I have seen is that providers can and will raise prices, especially with the guarantee of a government check.

mark christophe of FL 3:35PM June 18, 2009