Re: Yahoo! News Story - Group calls for universal health coverage
From: Jamie (ajfields@pine-net.com)
Thu Jun 8 12:26:58 2006
neither do I. I am squarely on the fence on this one.
At Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Kim Elise Goldman wrote:
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>Well as someone who is a participating provider in government
>sponsored health care (Medicaid and the Medicaid subcontractors) I
>will tell you that the bureaucracy there is even worse and the most
>important medical decisions are often made by people ill qualified to
>do so...sometimes a clerk with a high school education. And then
>there is the VA system. Someone once calculated that you could
>provide traditional 80/20 indemnity insurance for all Vets and their
>families for less cost than the VA system...of course it would put a
>lot of people out of work if you did that. The answer is not the
>government. Sadly, I don't have a good suggestion for what the answer
>is....unless we go back to good old fashioned cash and barter :)
>
>Kim
>
>On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Jamie wrote:
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>> I don't think it's quite that simple. Maybe people are tired of
>> paying
>> premiums to insurance companies who then don't want to pay for their
>> care, or of being unable to afford insurance and praying not to get
>> sick. It seems simpler just to pay taxes for everyone's care. Of
>> course it won't be, once you add in the requisite level of
>> bureaucracy.
>> We already have government sponsored care, it's just not available to
>> most of the people who fund it.
>>
>> At Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Joe Cutchin wrote:
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>>> "to find out what Americans want" - here piggy,piggy. We are all
>>> piglets
>>> wanting to suck off the government. Didn't need a committee or 5.5
>>> mil
>>> for that big surprise. Joe C
>>>
>>> Meenan, Anna wrote:
>>>> So we spent 5.5 million dollars to find out that Americans want
>>>> universal basic health care coverage.
>>>>
>>>> What a surprise.
>>>>
>>>> Anna Meenan, MD
>>>>
>>>>> Robert Modugno MD (rmodugno@aol.com) has sent you a news article.
>>>>> (Email address has not been verified.)
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>>>>> Group calls for universal health coverage - Yahoo! News
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>>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_on_go_co/universal_coverage
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>>>>> Yahoo! News
>>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/
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>> --
>> JFields, RN, BSN
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JFields, RN, BSN
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