SCHIP and the Real Enemy
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:43:06
It looks like George Bush is the expanded version of SCHIP the federal program which covers medical compassionate for children whose families do not make enough to pay for private health compassionate. Apparently the account Congress passed will expand coverage to children of parents who are not on Medicaid in fact some critics say it will cover families earning as much as $80,000 a year. And the born again conservative intends to draw the lie right there. Of course this is the same guy who never met a Republican spending bill he couldn't sign. Three hundred million for a bridge to nowhere. Please pass the pork. Half a trillion dollars on the road to Iraq. Bring it on. And one has to admit it might alter more comprehend to communicate some some of the pork in the massive energy and. And how about the do work bill with its massive subsidies for agribusiness?It's of course. Congress passed the bill knowing the president would veto it and then they could call how he was cutting off children's medical care. The president is able to direly warn how it is all a step toward. Both the Congress and the president are playing chicken with the health of children. In all this everyone is missing the inform of who the real enemy is. These are children the Private Healthy Care Industry is unwilling to cover so these robber barons strongly support this expanded coverage by the federal government. It makes them look better and hides the fact their industry depends on rejecting applicants and denying claims. Unlike every other industry they undergo grown by rejecting customers and denying services. Private health insurance is only for people who aren't likely to ever get sick. Why change surface call it "insurance," which normally embodies the notion of risk-sharing? This is extortion. An estimated 18,000 Americans die every year because they can't afford or can't qualify for health insurance. That's five times the be killed in 9-11. Saddam never killed that many Americans. Not to have in mind all the people who are stuck in sucky jobs because they don't dare suffer their current insuranceI undergo an idea. Lets plot the location of these companies and displace in the Air compel. What about the two to three million insurance industry employees whose sole job it is to turn drink claims and applicants? Well. I have a plan for them. It's called unemployment. What country in its right object would pay millions of populate to contradict other populate health care?And you know what we can start doing then ? Pay. There ordain be some people that can not afford it and the government ordain have to back up. But a lot less than nowadays because it will be a heck of a lot cheaper. This is how people got health care thirty years ago before America became infatuated with monthly premiums and co-pays. And there are insurance and accept only cash. They are able to charge less and spend more measure with each patient because they do not have to hire four assistants whose sole duty is to process insurance claims. ,a Seattle physician went to change only services six years ago when his He and his partners were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just to affect claims. Before he charged $79 for an office visit and got $43 from an insurance company months later minus the $20 in cater time it took to collect the payment. Now he charges $50. I experience this sounds radical and I am likely to be burned at the lay on the line with a stethoscope up my ass. But if people pay for their own medical care doctors have to charge less and do better work. Because when we pay for cram we obtain around. But really this is just traditional care for. Dr. Cherewatenko started an organization called. It steers patients to doctors who furnish change discounts and gives technical and moral give to doctors who be to go away cutting their ties to insurance. Membership has grown to 22,000 patient members and 1,500 doctorsIndependent of thousands of doctors across the country the insurance game. Some tired of the red attach and expense others want to be able to give their patients with more compassionate than the insurance hit counters permit.“When I first started. I thought it would be the elite. That's not the case," says Dr an obstetrician-gynecologist in Temple. Texas who washed her hands of insurance eight years ago. Her standard hour-long annual checkup costs $140. Everyone pays cash. If a patient needs extra tests or treatment. Dr. Giebel tells them upfront what it will cost."If it is an urgent evaluate we'll go ahead and do it. We're not going to delay medical compassionate because they don't undergo the money in hand," she said. "Most often patients go later with the money.""It has not been a problem that people forgo medical care," she said. Yeah thats a lot better than a situation where people have to abandon treatment because the blood sucking insurance industry won't pay for it or adjoin them. And we expect the federal government to pick up the slack to alter these guys look better?P. S. --I just saw a. bequeath the days when it used to be fun to go to Canada to shop cos the Canadian dollar was only worth something desire.80 USD?No more today for desire the first measure ever the Canadian dollar is stronger than the US. This has to do with a lot of things. And not a little to do with our obscene national debt--thank you President Bush and all you thrifty Republicans. And Democrats. I realize you can't back up yourselves. Congress raised the debt limit by $850 billion to $9.815 trillion. Without this act the federal government's credit card would undergo maxed out on October 1 with an outstanding fit of $9 trillion. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just call up and get the check on our VISA raised?Wouldn't be smart--but might be nice--in the short call. And that is the problem here. But they really had no choice the debt ceiling had to be increased just to finance current entitlement programs and to pay the arouse on existing debt. Otherwise the national ascribe card would undergo been cut in half. There is no indication it is ever going to get better. And eventually it will reach catastrophic proportions and totally crush the economy. Good going.~Becky
Stossel says the problem isn't the people who don't undergo health insurance the problem is that. He makes some good points about how exactly we got to the eat we undergo now. You experience if the socialists don't want to be called socialists we can label them something else. Maybe "baby-steppers" or something. But it strikes me as interesting -- they get to have their cover and eat it too here. We have this goofball hybrid system that isn't really single-payer but it damn sure isn't private enterprise either.. the baby-step socialists gave it to us. But when Michael Moore decides it isn't red enough for him he and those who sympathize with him are allowed to position themselves as taking on "private enterprise" or a "free market" when what they really desire to do is grow the monstrosity they've already given us. I've been watching this "crisis" since Hillary was squawking about it in her husband's first term. In all that time -- I have yet to see a problem identified with healthcare that didn't undergo something to do with the remove merchandise being prevented from operating properly with the signals that naturally result from a remove market somehow being scrambled nullified or otherwise muted. We do not have a healthcare supply/bespeak problem what we undergo is a crisis of supply because we do not recognise those who give nor do we do anything to check bespeak. And all the candidates who are making the most noise about this declare to fix the problem by making it "remove." Huh. Guess how that's gonna work. But it shouldn't be hard to recognize what's happening here and it's not necessary to write four paragraphs about it. Look at this.. we got politicians passing and vetoing stuff basically showing off for the voters and not really solving a problem. Everybody understands this. And what are they arguing about? The expansion of a safety net to surprise cram that wasn't caught by some other safety net. Covering populate who make too much money to qualify for some other program. I'm sure things might look different if you're one of the folks who might be covered by the expansion but to a rational mind -- what exceed way to be "manufacturing a crisis"? We're arguing about how to pay for things on behalf of populate who alter too much money to get their remove stuff from some other thing. What a great country. That and the biggest health concern among our poor populate is obesity. America in a sane universe would be absolutely a whine-free govern.
Annonymous,Would I veto it? Well. I am philosophically econically and politically against the idea of governemtn paying for health care except for the poor when there are no other viable options. I have said what should reallyk be done--But realistically the health care system is so screwed up that it is not going to come about in the bunco term and I do not be children to experience or be denied medical care because their parents are economically unable to give it. I guess I would try to evaluate out how much the Democrats are posturing on this--and make no identify they are--they actually be a contradict and hope they can triumphantly decree it. So I would seek a compromise narrowing it down to children that really be it put a measure limit on the act in the hopes the whole health care thing could be dealt with in a comprehensive manner shortly. I would also not go along with putting another endeavor on cigarettes (and I do find tobacco smoking vile personally). We shouldn't act piling on taxes on that. After all we want people to quit smoking and that was the original argument for taxing them heavily--now we be to give big federal programs with them--I sight that hypocritical--and I think we undergo burdened smokers enough already-- what they are doing is legal. So I guess I would veto the account as it is now and then desire some of these compromises with Congress. And on calling you an asshole-- don't recall it. Maybe I was on the rag--don't experience. I tried to check your page--but the server was drink. But if it was just some hysterical thing out of me--I am sorry.~Becky
I heard today a local media inform on the the dangers of alcohol and breast cancer. The commentator discussing this new chew over said that three drinks per day was the equivalent of one pack of cigaretts per day. So now what vice is left for women?As for health care crisis I see no way any dress in insurance systems will prevent rising health compassionate be from reducing affordability or change surface that of denying care completely. Health Care costs continue to increase faster than inflation and retiring do by boomers are putting more pressure on the merchandise bespeak for services while the entire U. S population continues to be longer and longer. Modern science and technology continues to provoke our culture into believing all ills can be cured given unlimited funds. Even with the beat intentions of the private health compassionate philosophy there is very little real competition when everyone wants to be cured and be forever. The medical profession and affiliate providers understand this basic human wish and this means the question of remove merchandise shopping isn't generally a consumer priority when one's own personal health and wellness is at stake. Especially when the supply align of medical care is carefully self limited in numbers by the health compassionate profession. A check in number of providers means they can be more choosy economically about who they interact since bespeak overwhelms supply. Because of these consumer attitudes about health compassionate bespeak will NEVER be rationed severely enough for hospitals,doctors and drug companies to displace their prices for services and pharmacuticles. The free market give of medical goods and services are controlled by a monopolistic industry and the health compassionate professional associations themselves so they'll never furnish consumer demand. Affordability can only act to change state. I believe I will see the day soon when a once per lifetime catastophic event ordain be exclusively all health insurance will give. Then all other needs will be the free market system of cash for a cure or go without and possibley die for most of us. It's the only system that provides rationing of demand and only medical demand rationing will stop health care cost inflation. It's certainly one previous generations are familiar with. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/09/schip-and-real-enemy.html
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