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 countrys leader seems powerless to stem the tide.
Perhaps that would not be a big problem if the economy was keeping pace. But it isnt. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at safehaven.com ...
So it's POTUS's fault?
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.
More fake news trying to blame President Trump fo years of Obamacare!
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
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.
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.
What are your plans for doctors visits and hospital expenses?
Look at how much we spend on healthcare already, and its 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 dont know what the answer is.......just wish the American people hadnt been so stupid in 2008 and 2012.
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).
What are your plans for doctors visits and hospital expenses?
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.
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
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.
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 Universitys 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.
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.
how long do u fast?
Thank you Obama.
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”.
Until recently, Ive been paying nearly $1900 a month for insurance, which we just lost in May. Cant afford that, we havent had a family visit to the doctors all year. Now I simply rest bankruptcy if something serious happens.
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.
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