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Is This The Answer To The Looming U.S. Healthcare Crisis?
Safehaven.com ^ | 07-13-2018 | Alex

Posted on 07/13/2018 9:58:03 AM PDT by bananaman22

America has a big, big problem on its hands. Healthcare costs are rising at astronomical and unsustainable rates, and the country’s leader seems powerless to stem the tide.

Perhaps that would not be a big problem if the economy was keeping pace. But it isn’t. In fact, growth in healthcare spending is projected to outflank economic growth by a factor of more than 2:1.

The U.S. might be the largest economy in the world, but it still spends a disproportionately large amount on healthcare. In 2016, health care expenditure per capita clocked in at $10,348--about double the average spend by other wealthy nations.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare; politics; us
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1 posted on 07/13/2018 9:58:03 AM PDT by bananaman22
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"...and the country’s leader seems powerless to stem the tide."

So it's POTUS's fault?

2 posted on 07/13/2018 10:02:43 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: bananaman22

My wife and I abandoned health care insurance the day Obamacare kicked in, 1.1.2014.

We’re now over 64 and have not spent a dime on health care. And we’ve saved a bundle on health care insurance. Life changing, actually.


3 posted on 07/13/2018 10:03:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: bananaman22

More fake news trying to blame President Trump fo years of Obamacare!


4 posted on 07/13/2018 10:04:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: bananaman22

My answers
1 colloidal Silver
2 healthy diet
3- excercise
4- cleanse and fast regularly
5- hang upside down
6- drink good water
Cheers. Dig it


5 posted on 07/13/2018 10:04:29 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: bananaman22

Wait, I thought 0bama and the Democrats took care of this back in 2009 and I would never have to worry about health care costs again...I feel so decieved.


6 posted on 07/13/2018 10:08:12 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: bananaman22

What’s this article even saying - we should all go to India for treatment? What is “telemedicine?”

Its all nonsense - Fed.gov and their printed dollars and massive debt spending are propping up payments to crony-capitalist health-care insiders. Pop the bubble. Let citizens pay doctors directly in CASH.


7 posted on 07/13/2018 10:13:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: cuban leaf
We’re now over 64 and have not spent a dime on health care. And we’ve saved a bundle on health care insurance. Life changing, actually.

What are your plans for doctors visits and hospital expenses?

8 posted on 07/13/2018 10:14:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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Look at how much ‘we’ spend on healthcare already, and it’s not even gone total Socialist yet. Americans need to be ‘woke’ to the fact that Socialized Medicine will not give you what you need anyway. Remember when Obama said ‘well, maybe you just need to take a pain pill’? This is a manufactured crisis, started by ambulance chasing attorneys who, de facto, made malpractice insurance rise astronomically. And no, I don’t know what the answer is.......just wish the American people hadn’t been so stupid in 2008 and 2012.


9 posted on 07/13/2018 10:15:39 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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The nation has abused insurance seeking assurance. That is what has caused our woes. It began with tying health instance to employment as a benefit which served to promote hiding the costs of services to those seeking them and thereby progressively freed those providing same from the worry that those getting the service have to be able to afford it.

It started a viscious cycle that combined with other effects, such as the States forcing the socialization of costs by making people insure for things they might not choose to it it was still their choice or just by making them carry a lot of coverage,

Obamaharm was in many respects just the government (unlawfully) doubling down on stupid, forcing the further abuse of insurance. It could only fail by making things worse.

The solutions all lay in undoing what progressivism has wrought, not in tripling or quadrupling down on stupid with even more progressivism (single payer etc).


10 posted on 07/13/2018 10:18:03 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PGR88

What are your plans for doctors visits and hospital expenses?


There aren’t any. I can’t remember the last time I went to a doctor. My wife did get a really, REALLY bad sinus problem a few months ago. After a month of it getting worse and worse (she needed Advil all day just to function) I said it was time to et a CT scan to take to a specialist. But the Sunday before she was going to go, I laid hands on her and asked Jesus to heal her, and that we trusted his faith, not mine.

A few hours later the problem was gone. Completely.

No appointment necessary. :)

That’s the second time that’s happened, BTW. Honestly, getting health insurance now would expose a huge lack of faith.


11 posted on 07/13/2018 10:22:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Our family and 130,000+ members swear by this medical healthshare program wit a Million dollars of coverage and only costs $250 / month ($1000 deductible)

https://www.libertyhealthshare.org/3-program-options


12 posted on 07/13/2018 10:36:50 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: bananaman22

Hospital costs are a biggie.

Convert hospitals under state law to REITs renting out space to surgical, anesthesia, pathology, lab practice groups and nursing ward operators.

For drug costs, allow insurers to build plans covering the things they can get good deals on. Also, create a Federal Drug Marketplace so people can buy drugs at income-based prices, if their drugmaker chooses to offer their products on it.

[My detailed plan for drugs is not currently online.]

For doctors, have them under state law use Medicare multiple pricing. They pick their multiple and post it on their websites and practice doors. Medicare multiple pricing makes provider price shopping easy for everyone.


13 posted on 07/13/2018 10:38:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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"Is This The Answer To The Looming Health Care Crisis?"

Is WHAT?

If posting an excerpt, post the most useful part, not simply the opening.

"Dartmouth College professor Vijay Govindarajan and his counterpart, Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University’s director Ravi Ramamurti, contend that widespread adoption of telemedicine in the U.S. can potentially cut the healthcare budget by as much as 30-40 percent without rationing care or compromising quality."

It's talking about tele-medicine.

14 posted on 07/13/2018 10:42:14 AM PDT by mlo
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But no political efforts concerning “healthcare”, whether from the FDR 1940s favors to corporate/union health insurance, or Medicare in the 1960s, or all the politics ever since, has asked or tried to address the core issue - the cost of health care.

Everything, every solution, has been a reward to the healthcare industry, that attempts to put the blame on anyone but them - usually the big bad insurance companies - and has ALL, 100%, been “insuring” there are no cost controls, and particularly market-based controls on the costs of that industry.

Everyone blames the bogeyman - health insurance - which for the very most part is just trying to get the health care claims paid and not go out of business doing it.

That industry is segregated, broken up, not universal and not national and not based on market insurance for all individuals, nationawide - by design; by design of the political class in the states and in D.C. Each wants their own pound of health insurance flesh to control, because their utopian sense says they can regulate “better” than a totally open market.

Not solving a problem, continuing a problem, and government’s desire to controleverything has done one thing - promised the healthcare indusdtry they did not need to worry, the politicians will make sure “someone” pays their bill, and someone else will get blamed for how high that bill is.


15 posted on 07/13/2018 10:42:24 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Truthoverpower

how long do u fast?


16 posted on 07/13/2018 10:58:47 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: bananaman22

Thank you Obama.


17 posted on 07/13/2018 11:01:33 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Angels27

Wait, I thought 0bama and the Democrats took care of this back in 2009 and I would never have to worry about health care costs again...I feel so decieved.

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You forgot the “period” part after “again”.


18 posted on 07/13/2018 11:03:38 AM PDT by zaxtres
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Until recently, I’ve been paying nearly $1900 a month for insurance, which we just lost in May. Can’t afford that, we haven’t had a family visit to the doctors all year. Now I simply rest bankruptcy if something serious happens.


19 posted on 07/13/2018 11:11:06 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Rurudyne

You are entirely correct.

When the patient IS NOT seeing the bill & the ‘who pays what’ breakdown, they just don’t get what is happening.


20 posted on 07/13/2018 11:25:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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