Re: TAX rate and universal health care
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Mar 10 16:03:54 2008
First we have to do something about the tort tax.
Art
At Mon, 10 Mar 2008, James Smeltzer wrote:
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>Doctors ALL need a course before they start on being a fiducial agent. There is plenty that we do that makes no sense. Our prescribing habits are abysmal.
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>Everyone needs to cover some fraction of the cost of their care and life-style.
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>Counting social security our taxes are over fifty percent for the middle class. We PAY more than anyone else for our health care.
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>The queue for total hips in England is six weeks long.
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>Balances are hard to find, but market solutions are hard when the locus of decision and locus of payment are different. If it would have cost all the money it will take for my Mom to live a comfortable life in assisted living for Dad's care, we might have decided differently. Id did - but it cost someone else, ALL of us.
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>JimS
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>>>> "Claudia Benge" <bengecaj@iquest.net> 3/9/2008 3:40 PM >>>
>1. Our tax rate is already at 50% (take your time and add up all the
>taxes you pay)
>2. Universal health care to even come close to what is available now
>will add 20% to our taxes
>3. Universal health care will cost more that we can possibly pay OR
>people will be denied healthcare based on their age and other health risks
>4. Can you imagine if your child is injured in an accident and someone
>states their chance of recovery is less than 30% SO they are therefore
>denied care???
>5. Or if your spouse is diagnosed with cancer and someone decides there
>is no chance for survival.
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>The only way good health care can survive is to allow competition and
>quality improvement. We as sonographers need to learn all we can and mentor
>good replacements. Quality improvement can track what really works for the
>least amount of expense and saves the patient money.
>
>Health care does not need to be part of the government, it just needs to be
>available so that the everyone can be covered on a "pool rated" basis. Can
>you imagine the same people who run the postal service and medicare now
>would be capable of running something which is our largest national
>product??? I cannot.
>
>Claudia Benge
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