Private Sector Health Care (the Undisputed, World’s Best Healthcare System) Is Finish

Private Sector Health Care (the Undisputed, World’s Best Healthcare System) Is Finished.


http://bighealthreport.com/wp-conten...EY-220x120.jpgEven when I think I’m wrong about something I usually end up being right. So I said, many times my usual attitude of warning you, particularly those of you in the medical professions, why should there be profit in making people well? Why should healing involve profit? Why should that cost anything? Why should that cost any more than what it costs? Well, let me take you to what I hold here now in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Right here. It is in the New York Times. It is a story by Eduardo Porter, and the headline: “Health Care and Profits, a Poor Mix.”
Do I need to even go any further? No. And as H.R., my trusted aide-de-camp and chief of staff, said, “Boy, did you call it.” Yep. And I’m not surprised. “Thirty years ago, Bonnie Svarstad and Chester Bond of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered an interesting pattern in the use of sedatives at nursing homes in the south of the state.
“Patients entering church-affiliated nonprofit homes were prescribed drugs roughly as often as those entering profit-making ‘proprietary’ institutions. But patients in proprietary homes received, on average, more than four times the dose of patients at nonprofits.
Writing about his colleagues’ research in his 1988 book ‘The Nonprofit Economy,’ the economist Burton Weisbrod provided a straightforward explanation: ‘differences in the pursuit of profit.’ Sedatives are cheap, Mr. Weisbrod noted. ‘Less expensive than, say, giving special attention to more active patients who need to be kept busy.’ This behavior was hardly surprising. Hospitals run for profit are also less likely than nonprofit and government-run institutions to offer services like home health care.”

So, not only are these people making profits, they’re not offering you nearly as many options. Really evil. They don’t offer as many options nor as cheaply as the nonprofits. These profit seekers essentially are short-changing you. “A shareholder might even applaud the creativity with which profit-seeking institutions go about seeking profit. But the consequences of this pursuit might not be so great for other stakeholders in the system — patients, for instance.”
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Private Sector Health Care (the Undisputed, World’s Best Healthcare System) Is Finished.



And what did he say at one of his debates he now likes the term "obamacare" When will it be implemented for all politicians year 2013 no, 2014 n , 2015 maybe, no..how about 2016 no....no worry by that time well probably all be dead from such good healthcare!!!!

Could String of Lawsuits Unravel Obamacare? By John Jessup CBN News Washington Correspondent Wednesday, January 09, 2013 http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/...cares-Undoing/ WASHINGTON -- When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Barack Obama's health care law was "constitutional," most Americans thought the legal case against the law was settled. But even now, there are a growing number of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. "There are going to be legal challenges continuing for quite some time," John Malcolm, a senior legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation, predicted. If they succeed, one by one, they could unravel parts of Obamacare. The legal argument gaining the most steam - and most likely to succeed according to some court watchers - is the challenge to the law's contraception coverage mandate. Religious business owners and faith-based organizations argue the mandate violates their religious beliefs by forcing them to cover the morning-after pill and similar drugs in their insurance plans. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, offered his insight on the future of Obamacare, on "The 700 Club," Jan. 9. "The case is about whether the government can say, 'We're going to force you to violate your faith or pay a fine,'" Kyle Duncan, general counsel with The Becket Fund, said. "Today it's contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. Tomorrow what else is it going to be?" Another challenge takes aim at a 15-member panel, called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created to keep Medicare costs in check. Opponents argue it would wield incredible influence and violate the Constitution's "separation of powers." Yet another challenge could put the fate of the entire law in jeopardy. Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that the "individual mandate" is a tax. The Constitution requires all taxing measures start in the House. But opponents argue the final version of the bill that became law actually originated in the Senate. "If that lawsuit succeeds, then the Obamacare law was passed in an unconstitutional manner, and it would be stricken," Malcom said. For now, court watchers like Malcolm believe the strongest argument against the law is the contraception coverage mandate, which opponents call a threat to religious liberty. But even if they're successful, it would only affect the mandate and leave the rest of the law in place.

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posted on January 10, 2013
Higher Insurance Premiums Could Cause National Health Care Law to Death Spiral


http://bighealthreport.com/wp-conten...50-220x120.jpgThis weekend, the New York Times reported on a development that’s completely unsurprising to critics of President Obama’s national health care law: “Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers.” The Times story heavily suggests that the problem is that Obamacare didn’t give federal regulators enough power to outright reject rate increases deemed too high. But Reason‘s Peter Suderman makes that case that the real culprit could be Obamacare itself — particularly its requirement that all insurance policies pay out at least 80 percent of what it collects in premiums on medical expenses. Known as the “medical loss ratio” (MLR) rule, this requirement creates an incentive for insurers to hike premiums by reducing their profit margins on any given policy.
Whatever the cause of the higher premiums, however, this trend presents a key structural challenge to Obamacare. The health care law aims to prevent insurers from discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions, to make sure that policies cover a specified package of benefits, and to limit how much extra money insurers can charge older and sicker patients. All of these provisions increase costs and decrease insurance industry profits. But through the mandate forcing individuals to purchase insurance, the law hopes to push enough younger and healthier Americans into the insurance pool to offset theses cost increases. This is where the problem with rising premiums comes in.



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posted on January 10, 2013
Obamacare Threatens States’ Fiscal Autonomy




http://bighealthreport.com/wp-conten...m1-220x120.jpgAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government posted a $293 billion deficit in the first fiscal quarter of 2013, setting the Obama administration up for a record fifth year of trillion-dollar deficits. As a result, the Treasury Department has already reached its legal borrowing limit, and unless Congress raises the limit again soon, economic chaos could ensue.
Meanwhile, down in Texas, legislators are facing a polar opposite problem: They have to figure out what to do with a $8.8 billion surplus. How did Texas manage to roll up that kind of financial cushion, especially considering that just two years earlier, the state faced a $27 billion deficit? Not by raising taxes or boosting spending. Texas made deep and difficult spending cuts to favorite government programs, including education. It didn’t raise taxes, and it didn’t chase the environmental movement’s dream of a new energy economy.
Instead, Texas went about minimizing regulations and taxes in an effort to make it the most business-friendly state in the nation. It also unleashed the private sector on the state’s natural resources, producing a natural gas and oil boom that is producing both jobs for Texans and royalty revenues for state government.
Texas is not the only state that has managed to turn the fiscal corner. Indiana had a $500 million surplus in 2012; Florida’s was $400 million; Tennessee’s was $580 million; Michigan’s was $1 billion; Iowa’s was $800 million; and Wisconsin finished the fiscal year $154.5 million in the black.

What do all these states have in common? They all have Republican governors that tackled budget deficits with restrained spending and no tax hikes. And except in Iowa, Republicans control both houses of the state legislature. This model is working.
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posted on January 10, 2013
Planned Parenthood Sets Record for Abortions and Government Funding

http://bighealthreport.com/wp-conten...od-220x120.pngPlanned Parenthood reported receiving record taxpayer funding in the last reporting year, while also performing a record number of abortions, according to the organization’s new annual report released this week.
The nation’s largest abortion provider maintained its infamous title, performing 333,964 abortions—a record for the organization that received 45 percent of its revenues from taxpayer-funded government sources during the 2011–2012 fiscal year. According to analysis by the Susan B. Anthony List, Planned Parenthood has performed almost 1 million abortions in the past three years alone.
Despite the organization’s prominence—performing roughly one out of every four abortions in America—Planned Parenthood has ridden the waves of taxpayer funding to millions of dollars in annual surpluses. Last year, like many before it, Planned Parenthood saw a very comfortable income, reporting excess revenues exceeding $87 million and net assets of more than $1.2 billion.
In the face of large surpluses and increased abortions, supporters and activists are still quick to point to the provision of other services to justify continued and expanded federal funding of the organization. But a closer look at Planned Parenthood’s own report and actions still point to a strong emphasis on abortion procedures.

While Planned Parenthood affiliates performed a record number of abortions in 2011, the organization made only 2,300 adoption referrals and provided fewer than 30,000 prenatal services. Roughly 40 percent of the organization’s reported contraceptive services last year were the provision of more than 1.4 million emergency contraception kits, which many believe can cause an abortion in early pregnancy. To solidify its place as the top abortion provider, Planned Parenthood recently announced that all local affiliates would have to begin providing abortion services starting in 2013.
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Planned Parenthood Sets Record for Abortions and Government Funding


My opinion and this is my opinion it is the same as it always has been I believe having an abortion is between a women and her doctor and or family or partner. I think in today's society to many people use it as a form of birth control..I have never believed it was something that should be taken lightly...and I think if girls can't afford it they should get help for this procedure. I think adoption and all options or birth control should be given to young girls who seek council and I think parents should always be involved in this decision. In todays society there is too much government interference and control of our children there are some things that are best left to be talked about with in the family unit...What they are doing in schools today borders on the criminal and down right disgusts me. But I also think planned parenthood is important part of life in too many cases it's not even talked about in the home...churches etc and it is being left to the wrong people to do the teaching of our children....

And as always this is my opinion of course.....