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Health Care Solution

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:09:03 PST

Heath Care Solution Video

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Justify The Cost Of Health Care !!

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:12:04 PST

Everyone is talking about "How To Pay for Health Care"..Let's Start talking about "Justifying the Cost In The first Place" Greed is why Health Care Costs have Sky Rocketed..My daughter just spent 3 days in the Hospital for a routine surgery..and We just Recieved a bill for $15,000....Justify that for me Congress !!! 15,000 for Services like * Meals that are no better then Prisoners get..Doctors that You Never See..Attitudes from Nurses...Treated like "a Herd of Cattle" $22 combs, $2000 a day for a room that you share with someother Poor Sap..and on and on...And all for the Low Price of $15,000+...We need a "Cap" that can be charged on every Item and Service in the Health Care Industry..Including Medications...let's Quit trying to find a way to "Pay for the High Costs."..Instead, Get the Hospitals and Doctors in Check !! instead.

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Single Payer

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:36:26 PST

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The only idea to move away from the greedy Wall Street insurance companies is the Medicare/Medicaid system/Single Payer. Employers deduct Medicaid from withholdings so just make this take the place of greedy Wall Street insurance providers. One payment for health care, so simple so easy!

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Standardize Medical Coverage Among Private Insurance Companies

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:51:33 PST

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The private insurance companies should work together with the government to standardize medical care coverage and administrative requirements including claim forms, deductibles, and levels of care. This would make it easier for healthcare providers by simplifying administrative requirements and reducing administrative costs while encouraging competition. For example, Company A, Company B, and Company C would all offer the same level of care, same deductibles, and all require the same claim form submitted by the healthcare provider while competing to provide care at the best price.

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Improve the quality of healthcare provision

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:28:20 PDT

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Enact legislation to provide incentives for the creation of integrated physician practices. This would improve health care quality, reduce costs, and create competition. Without a focus on improving quality of health care provision, the debate centers on decreasing insurance premiums which, in my opinion, is attacking a symptom and not the cause.

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Open Medicare to All Americans

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:01:38 PDT

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Even opponents of much of the health care reform proposals agree that Medicare works. We should open Medicare to all Americans--citizens and legal residents. Premiums for your coverage would be based on income similar to current income tax scales, and paid by payroll deduction for those currently working. Private insurance would continue to be available as it is to current Medicare participants. Employers who offer private insurance as a benefit would be required to offer the Medicare package as an option, and simply redirect the amount they contribute for private insurance to a Medicare premium instead for employees who select that option. Payments would be tied to outcomes instead of procedures to bring down costs and improve care.

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Allow more personal choice and reform medical liability torts.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:33:56 PDT

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To hell with consensus. Allow more personal choice and reform medical liability torts. I have a high deductible insurance policy and a medical IRA. I pay cash for medical services, and I get reimbursed by the IRA up to the level of my deductible. Whatever I don't use gets saved and invested tax free. I find that when I pay cash, I usually get about a 20% discount off my bill.

One change I would make is to allow individuals get the same tax deduction for buying insurance that only employers get now.

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Other Ideas

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:36:15 PDT

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Other ideas. How about repealing government mandates about what people can insure. Why must all insurance companies cover all procedures? We could save billions by allowing consumers more choice in the policies they purchase. How about making costs transparent. Consumers should know the prices of the services they are going to receive BEFORE they are delivered. There are a million more little tweaks that can make our current system better. Lets start somewhere.

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Tax Reform

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:35:43 PDT

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Tax Reform = more coverage. Take some of the savings from electronic health records, fraud reduction and tort reform and start offering tax incentives and vouchers to Americans who can’t afford coverage. Expand tax incentives for small businesses that offer their workers health insurance (do the same for self-employed folks). Finally eliminate capital gains taxes for investments in health care companies that are searching for ways to improve health care delivery or prevent diseases like AIDS, Cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes.

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Electronic Health System

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:35:23 PDT

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Electronic Health System = $20 billion savings potential per year. Our current paper based health system is amazingly backward. So much paper makes fraud commonplace, allows insurance companies to pay doctors and patients slower and causing unnecessary and costly medical errors. We need to move from our paper based system to an electronic health system.

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