Text 6345, 57 rader
Skriven 2010-03-27 18:25:32 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 6259 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Question about democracy
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Replying to a message of Janis Kracht to Ross Cassell:

 >> Irrelevant, if you cannot alleviate the concerns of how to
 >> pay for this and replacing the insurance company bureaucrats
 >> with govt ones, whom get to decide which treatments one can
 >> get.

 JK> That's a silly idea, that one can't alleviate concerns of
 JK> how to pay for this. The plan isn't free.  People will pay
 JK> for it.  What's changed is that no one will be denied.

Want to bet some serious money on that?

In Britain the NHS got some really bad press a number of years ago
when it was discovered - and publicized - that the NHS wouldn't pay
for kidney dialysis for new patients over age 55.  Patients of that age
who developed that problem were simply told "There's nothing we can do."
It simply isn't *cost effective*, don't'cha know.

 JK>  But people who are eligible will probably get it cheaper, and
 JK> people who have been denied before, won't be denied now for
 JK> pre-existing conditions.  At least that's my
 JK> understanding..

 >> Adding sixteen thousand heads to the irs payroll, a agency
 >> with a long not so friendly reputation, doesnt calm my
 >> concerns.

 JK> Nothing will calm my concerns until this country gets
 JK> Universal Health Care for every citizen... They do it for
 JK> Congress, they can do it for the people.

There are 535 congresscrooks, there are 300 *million* people in this country,
BIG difference.  Better that they *not* do it for the congresscrooks.

 >> Make the healthcare establishment all govt owned and funded
 >> with all the medical personel govt employees is one option
 >> that many wont want to stomach but could be the way to
 >> reduce costs, which is the core issue here. High costs is
 >> what triggers the rest of the issues. However if the
 >> military and VA hospitals are any indication, the govt could
 >> not run a medical establishment competently.

 JK> I dunno.. the congressmen don't complain Lol

 >> Also TORT reform!!!!!!!

 >> A Doctor cant expect to make a living if he has to pay out
 >> the ass for malpractice insurance.

 JK> They certainly make mucho bux now..

Must be why physicians have for decades recommended that their offspring
*NOT* go into the health care field.

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