New optimism on U.S. healthcare, but obstacles remain »
Posted By Progressive 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
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Congress has started work on a broad overhaul of the healthcare system in a rare spirit of optimism, but brewing battles over its cost, scope and structure could still scuttle hopes for a solution.
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Endoscopy6 months, 3 weeks ago
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The biggest obstical is the cost of government health care. Obama said $1.5 trillion and that comes out to over $10,000 per taxpayer going with the 2007 number of 138 million tax payers. 2 taxpayers in a family means over $20,000. With Medicare and Medicaid being a black hole with bad care given this would mean things like is going on in Canada and Britain. Long waits for seeing a doctor, 4 months in Canada if you have a doctor. 5 million Canadians do not have a doctor. In Britain they are rapidly losing elective surgery and will eventually get to a point of shrinking the required surgery.
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Another issue is that is happening there is the cost effective issue. That means that if a procedure is not deemed cost effective it is not allowed even though it is needed. As people get older the procedures will be less and less cost effective. As Tom Daschle wrote in his book "Older people will have to be accepting of problem coming with old age." In other words if you are too old then you are not worth having a procedure that a younger person can get. A polite way of saying that old people are to be thrown on the trash heap.-
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Progressive6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Long waits for seeing a doctor, 4 months in Canada if you have a doctor."
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According to one of our Propeller members to the north, you are misinformed.
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Beau78906 months, 3 weeks ago
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Endoscopy: Tom Daschle wrote in his book "Older people will have to be accepting of problem coming with old age." In other words if you are too old then you are not worth having a procedure that a younger person can get.
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There's a really long stretch from the Daschle statement to your interpretation of it. Of course older people will have to accept problems that come from aging. That is a statement of fact, and has nothing to do with your conclusion.
Regardless, your whole argument is a straw man. We're not getting single-payer healthcare. Obama has never suggested it, and there are few in Congress who support it.
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