Is there need for overhaul of the US healthcare system?
admin | Apr 20, 2010 | Comments 6
I mean the US has excellent quality healthcare but in reality only the rich can make treatment for (without feeling to much pain in the wallet) a injury like an arm break or a hernia. The US does spend the most per capita on healthcare in the Western World but that does not mean that it improves anything but only that doctors keep using unnecessary treatment like how come the US is behind in life expectancy to the Communist Cuba and even the second world Chile and the US has one of the highest tariff of infant mortality among developed countries.
What should be the main goal of shape reform in the US, should it Decrease the cost of shape care, Improve the quality of shape care, Improve the access to shape care or make most Americans hear at smallest amount valuable public care. What would it be like for the US if an Australian system like the Medicare service is implemented where all taxpayers pay a 1.5% income tariff levy (with exceptions for low-income earners), an additional levy of 1% is imposed on high-income earners without confidential shape insurance. There is also a confidential shape system where people pay for shape insurance to go to a confidential hospital if they wish for quicker service. Bankruptcies from lack of funds to pay for medical bills is the largest reason for personal bankruptcies in the US accounting for over 60 % of all bankruptcies, while in Australia it is nearly negligible.
Check out these videos about healthcare reform:
http://www.newscientist.com/articlevideo/dn17512/30590602001-the-scientific-arguments-for-us-healthcare-reform.html
And look at this to compare Western Countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system#Cross-country_comparisons
So what are your thoughts on the need for some reform?
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People are always talking about how fantastic shape care is in America. Well, that greatness comes at a cost. I don’t know why these stout, white, redneck hillbillies, who despise Obama because of his color, can’t know that Obama is trying to articulate how broke the piggy bank is. America’s Treasury has been looted by Congress, and shape care, fantastic as it may be, is probably the largest drain on the system.
Folks, a touch must be done. This fantastic moorland care is expensive.
we need to make the government out of shape care
really we should just follow our constitution, generally
Yes…even after sending the current Bill forward there will be need to continue to reform the shape care system including decreasing the cost of shape care and improving the access to shape care…
If you’ve used it, and you are paying for it yourself and aren’t in a group plot, I don’t even have to look at your sources, I know we need changes.
What bothers me is that we are so close minded about it. That facts that I know from experience are glossed over by those that simply repeat Rush’s morning monologue. We believe more in rhetoric than we do in what we know to be right.
Insurance costs too much, isn’t practical, doesn’t cover what you need.
Young people make sick too, and the costs are astronomical, so far they tend to reckon of it as an ancient folks problem. They also reckon Medicare pays for everything, and they don’t know that a person contributes to it their whole working lives and still needs to pay more out of pocket to cover the costs.
So they aren’t in favor of any shape care at all, until they need it.
Ancient people have seen how often their friends are left with huge bills for needed surgeries how the social services can wipe out the small estates they were plotting on leaving their kids, maybe just a small home, but that goes to pay off their hospital bills, making the elderly worry about losing Medicare coverage is just cruel.
There is more emotion that sense in opposing both the public option for insurance, and universal coverage. But then, the insurance companies are the largest donors to both parties.
Yes. If we allow the moorland care insurance providers to keep raising the costs of premiums at the same rate they did in the last 10 years, in 10 years the economy will be in much worse shape than it is now and nothing but a 90% income tariff on the wealthy will be able to save it. And I am not so sure that even that will be able to save it.
place on’t believe ANYONE or ANY REPORT that claims US is behind in healthcare. When other countries don’t report as infant mortality any baby that is premature, or babies that die within the week they’re born….. but the US doesn’t hide it’s numbers, obviously the results are not accurate, aptly?
it is GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE that needs reforming. not healthcare or insurance or healthcare providers.