Health Care
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From ABC.
Exactly, Charlie, exactly. Sometimes you have to start at the easy problems, and test for those, and go through a bunch of other tests. You wouldn't want to jump straight to the end, have the simpler problem be the issue, and then have wasted a bunch of money on stuff that had no hope of working!
But beyond that even ... "we know what makes sense" the President said. Please ... he is not a doctor! I want my doctor talking to me about tests and treatments. I do not want the Fed telling me what tests I can, and can not have.
Recently, a study came out that said prostate exams were pointless. Tell that to the thousands of men that had their cancer detected early and had their lives saved. I also read, and linked here, that there is a doctor that said mamograms are not a necessary test. I know of two women that in the last year alone had their cancer detected due to a mamogram.
These are the sorts of procedures that I'm scared will become once every five years or not available until you're over 50.
And as some of the questions in last nights infomercial raised, it's hard to compete with a government option that is also in charge of making all the rules.
I really, really, really think this is about being the first and only President to get health care reform done. The Dems were livid that the first health care reform bill was done under President Bush and Majority Leader Frist. Livid. They loved the plan. That's why the voted for it. They just could not stand that the Reps would get credit.
So, if we ignore all the problems, but keep going along, it will get done. That sounds stubborn to me.
There is research out there that says something like 80% of the American people want health care for all. But if it means giving up or changes to their plan, that support falls to like, 20%.
Medicaid and Medicare did not make anything better for anyone. I don't understand why you would make a whole new entity. Why not revamp Medicaid? Change the rules so more people can apply?
All this new government plan is going to do is force middle income and lower income folks onto the government option, and send the mid-teir and smaller insurance companies out of business. The rich will self insure, or pay the higher premiums that the rest of us can't pay and see the doctors they want and get the treatment they want.
So President Obama, Congress, et al. won't be effected. Just you and me. (More at Hot Air)
There are low income families that are faced with this reality today; they can't afford the best care for their kids and loved ones. And those should be the people we focus on helping. That group of people who seeks out treatment, struggles to make payments, those people need health care reform or Medicaid reform so that it helps them. Why not start there and not create a whole new government problem that we can't afford. We already have three of those ... Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. And two of those things, that were designed to solve this very problem, solved nothing at all.
Updated -- from Boortz:
Also, from US News and Health Report, a column by a doctor that says health care reform that ignores defensive medicine will do nothing to lower costs.
From ABC.
"There's a whole bunch of care that's being provided that every study, that every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier," he said.
Gibson interjected that often patients don't know what will work until they get every test they can.
"Oftentimes we know what makes sense and what doesn't," the president responded, making a push for evidence-based medicine.
Exactly, Charlie, exactly. Sometimes you have to start at the easy problems, and test for those, and go through a bunch of other tests. You wouldn't want to jump straight to the end, have the simpler problem be the issue, and then have wasted a bunch of money on stuff that had no hope of working!
But beyond that even ... "we know what makes sense" the President said. Please ... he is not a doctor! I want my doctor talking to me about tests and treatments. I do not want the Fed telling me what tests I can, and can not have.
Recently, a study came out that said prostate exams were pointless. Tell that to the thousands of men that had their cancer detected early and had their lives saved. I also read, and linked here, that there is a doctor that said mamograms are not a necessary test. I know of two women that in the last year alone had their cancer detected due to a mamogram.
These are the sorts of procedures that I'm scared will become once every five years or not available until you're over 50.
And as some of the questions in last nights infomercial raised, it's hard to compete with a government option that is also in charge of making all the rules.
I really, really, really think this is about being the first and only President to get health care reform done. The Dems were livid that the first health care reform bill was done under President Bush and Majority Leader Frist. Livid. They loved the plan. That's why the voted for it. They just could not stand that the Reps would get credit.
"We have to have the courage and the willingness to cooperate and compromise in order to make this happen," the president said. "And if we do, it's not going to be a completely smooth ride, there's going to be times over the next several months where we think health care is dead, it's not going to happen but if we keep our eye on the prize ... then I'm absolutely convinced that we can get it done this time."
So, if we ignore all the problems, but keep going along, it will get done. That sounds stubborn to me.
There is research out there that says something like 80% of the American people want health care for all. But if it means giving up or changes to their plan, that support falls to like, 20%.
Medicaid and Medicare did not make anything better for anyone. I don't understand why you would make a whole new entity. Why not revamp Medicaid? Change the rules so more people can apply?
All this new government plan is going to do is force middle income and lower income folks onto the government option, and send the mid-teir and smaller insurance companies out of business. The rich will self insure, or pay the higher premiums that the rest of us can't pay and see the doctors they want and get the treatment they want.
So President Obama, Congress, et al. won't be effected. Just you and me. (More at Hot Air)
Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.
Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.
There are low income families that are faced with this reality today; they can't afford the best care for their kids and loved ones. And those should be the people we focus on helping. That group of people who seeks out treatment, struggles to make payments, those people need health care reform or Medicaid reform so that it helps them. Why not start there and not create a whole new government problem that we can't afford. We already have three of those ... Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. And two of those things, that were designed to solve this very problem, solved nothing at all.
Updated -- from Boortz:
Another point .. this from the Cato Institute .. did Obama happen to notice that Medicare completely wiped out health insurance plans for the elderly? To ignore that little fact is simply not logical.Read the whole thing.
Also, from US News and Health Report, a column by a doctor that says health care reform that ignores defensive medicine will do nothing to lower costs.
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But I do not want to drastically change mine.
How do you account for that? There's a decent percentage backing us both up, people the need change and people that like what they have. So how do you reach a decision that works for both?