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09-06-2012, 12:05 PM
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us health care report
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...tute-says?lite
The U.S. health care system wasted $750 billion in 2009, about 30 percent of all health spending, on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. also saw the below, and found it interesting: http://www.westseattleherald.com/201...-insurance-web 
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09-06-2012, 12:56 PM
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"Health insurance is a fabulous loop of everyone wanting to get more for less and forgetting what the whole system is supposed to do in the first place: insure people against financially catastrophic medical emergencies. Not hold people's hands when they've stubbed their toes."
Love that line
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09-06-2012, 01:29 PM
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How can that article on health care completely ignore the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that directly addresses some of those concerns?
Good article to set out the problems the ACA starts to address, but incomplete as it doesn't outline what solutions have been implemented.
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09-06-2012, 05:45 PM
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And how exactly does Obamacare address those issues?
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09-06-2012, 06:10 PM
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Health care in the US is 1/5 of our economy. A major reason healthcare reform was pursued was because it's a huge economic issue dragging this country down. We have one of the most expensive, waste-ridden, poor-outcome-for-the-dollar healthcare systems of all the first world countries. One of the worse and most expensive. It does not solve them, of course, but the ACA absolutely addresses and improves: Cost control Premium price control Medication costs Health care improvements by access improvement Funding of CDC and scientific initiatives Massive cutting of fraud and waste in Medicare/Medicaid Funding for private practitioners (increased numbers) Changing payments to doctors for better outcomes, not more testing. Coordination between health care teams. Medical records improvements. And on and on. You can click on healthcare.gov to read and educate yourself.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts Last edited by Riot : 09-06-2012 at 06:25 PM.
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