Govt. Healthcare.

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jarasan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:52 GMT

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Comment #5

jarasan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:36:45 GMT

You need to go to your local emergency room and look at the demographic sitting there waiting for triage and report back who they declined to admit. I work in the healthcare industry and I personally care for my handicapped sister and elderly parent. I don't want any jackass govt. bureaucrat deciding any care for me or my family, this is what they are trying to do. They want as much control as possible you may like to be controlled but I don't. Today I will visit... [ More ]

Comment #4

justxploring — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:56:30 GMT

By acting "as a payer only" a very lucrative plan for private insurers was created while restricting benefits to Medicare recipients, leaving the taxpayers stuck with billions, yes billions, in extra costs. (estimated $54 billion over 5 years) This privatization, or as you put it, letting "doctors and hospitals take care of those who need healthcare" ended up in so many overpayments, that in the end, seniors received poorer benefits while private insurers enjoyed windfall profits. <br... [ More ]

Comment #3

jarasan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:39:14 GMT

As a side note, they are ready to legislate the private aircraft operators into commercial operators under the same rules as passenger jets, they don't want anybody but them controlling just about all aircraft. Another thing is that we keep hearing the comparison between economies of the past and now. I believe some of these comparisons are mute, because of the much higher number of people and different economic dynamics. I just heard a talking head make a great com... [ More ]

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time*treat — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:16:34 GMT

Considering how often they currently release 100s of thousands of peoples' SS numbers and other info "into the wild", just imagine how well they are going to "protect" everyone's medical records. In 20 years, the only people able to get decent jobs will be those who hardly ever get sick. The chronically ill will also find themselves chronically under-employed.

Comment #1

JAP69 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:54:31 GMT

Now if someone could come up with a program to enable a transfer of info they could make a couple dollars.

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jarasan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:20:27 GMT

What is Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA Health System? Do young, healthy, people that don't need healthcare or want to pay for it, pay involuntarily? What about dental and eyecare?

If the govt. gets involved anymore in the healthcare business it'll be a bottomless pit for money thrown away.

The panacea of a nationalized electronic medical record (EMR) is a hoax to create further depedence on govt. and have the govt. making healthcare decisions for people.

The EMR technological hurdle, to achieve, is infinite, another huge agency will have to be created. What if you lose your EMR and someone uses it for nefarious purposes. Compliance by healthcare providers will drain resources and increase costs, legal battles will ensue. What will happen to the insurers and HMO's?

HIPAA kills, that is the last big idea to come out of congress.

To give you an idea, you ever hear of Social Security? Do you know that the SS system databases are on archaic systems that cannot be migrated via. electronic means? In other words the data of all USAmericans would have to be keyed manually to update the systems used by SS! They can't do it, it would take 25 years of 10,000 people typing continuosly to achieve a manual update! Never going to happen. SS maintains COBOL programmers, ever hear of COBOL?

Now imagine trying to have the govt. manage the nations medical records! The govt. should remain involved as a payer only for Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA health system and let the doctors and hospitals take care of those who need healthcare and those who want it.

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