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Safe sex IS about preventing STDs...and only about preventing STDS. It isn't about pregnancy. Pregnancy is a temporary and a curable condition and isn't communicable.
I said what I meant to say. Good work.I disagree, this is about making babies. It's about safe sex, and unwanted Pregnancy is not good especially if you don't have the funds and or tight on money as well as many other issues.
They miscalculated based on false info from Obamacare...like how many young health people would just pay the fine because they couldn't afford insurance...and how many very sick people would suddenly jump into the pool without having paid anything in. Also, the programs were subsidized by the government so people didn't really see the "real" cost of their insurance plans and each year a little less is subsidized.
The problem with going to single payer is that there is a limited amount of money available and that has to cover everyone. What will happen is that care will become rationed instead of everyone getting the latest greatest treatments. Rationing can be refusing treatment to people or limiting how many people can get a treatment each month and therefore making long waits for care...and then the critical patients just die before they get to the point where they can actually get care that might have saved them.
I have been discussing hysterectomy and menopause care with some ladies in England and Canada...and the lack of care they are getting sort of horrifies me. It takes forever to get seen...and then they are poo-poo'd and send home without things that are standard care here. When my husband was fighting cancer, I was online with a woman who had the same strange type of cancer. In the time he had 3 surgeries and a 4 months of chemo, she was required to wait for the scan that would help diagnose her cancer. However, since this was a very aggressive cancer, chances are that she was dead before she got this simple PET scan...and if not, she was beyond treatment. My husband was in surgery within 10 days of finding out he had this aggressive strain....and 4 of those days were waiting to get in with the right specialist.
I also work in healthcare and the idea of single payer care scares me to death. Research will go away because there is no profit in it (profit is needed to pay for the studies and the treatments that don't work). I also think they will overwork the people in the hospitals until all the quality people leave for other professions. I know how much my unit has changed since Obamacare has kicked in and decisions are made based on the budget and not what is best for the patient or the staff.
We already have a model of government run single payer medical system...The VA Hospital System. I don't know how that idea excites anyone? (My husband and brother both had care by the VA...good medicine but no luxuries at all and you go home the minute the matrix says you qualify. Never mind how you feel.
Don't believe me? This is a problem in Canada right now. This young girl was approved for a treatment that was likely to put her leukemia in remission if not cure her. However, the hospital only budgeted for 5 beds a month to receive this treatment. There were 30 people in front of her and she died waiting. (Note, she wasn't waiting for an organ to become available but rather a BED in the hospital...an appointment for the procedure, in otherwords.) Rationed healthcare at its finest.
Plea from dying teen: Please help | Toronto Star
I want my job not to purposely take BC out of my insurance. Since its none of their business. I pay for insurance.I should have BC if I want to use it. Just like people use insurance when they have babies. Or when they go to the hospital over a migraine. Which cost way more then preventing pregnancy.Can you not afford $10/month to buy it for yourself? or use condoms.
Either you want government in your reproductive decisions (mandating birth control be covered) or you want to keep your reproductive decisions private and make them yourself (and you pay for it). You can't say ... "pay for it but mind your own business".
If the government is involved, then it isn't that huge of a step before they pick and chose how many babies a person can have or mandates mandatory birth control even if the woman wants a baby. And they will have that right since they are paying for it.
Safe sex is also about pregnancy - especially in the US. We have a very high rate of maternal deaths compared to other developed countries - especially for minority women, even across class lines.Safe sex IS about preventing STDs...and only about preventing STDS. It isn't about pregnancy. Pregnancy is a temporary and a curable condition and isn't communicable.
NPR said:Among our key findings:
U.S. Has The Worst Rate Of Maternal Deaths In The Developed World
- More American women are dying of pregnancy-related complications than any other developed country. Only in the U.S. has the rate of women who die been rising.
- There's a hodgepodge of hospital protocols for dealing with potentially fatal complications, allowing for treatable complications to become lethal.
- Hospitals -- including those with intensive care units for newborns -- can be woefully unprepared for a maternal emergency.
- Federal and state funding show only 6 percent of block grants for "maternal and child health" actually go to the health of mothers.
- In the U.S, some doctors entering the growing specialty of maternal-fetal medicine were able to complete that training without ever spending time in a labor-delivery unit.
Oh well, wait for the budget talks next year. Ryan will be gunning for Medicare; after all, we have to pay for the tax cuts somehow.The VA is irrelevant. We've had a different model of single payer health insurance in this country for over 50 years. Which is extremely well-liked (you might even say cherished) by its beneficiaries. Technically, It's a hybrid single payer sytem that combines private insurance with tax-funded coverage. It's called Medicare. Participation is mandatory--everyone who works (legally, at least) and all employers must pay into the system. Along with SS, it is the most popular government program ever enacted. (And if you don't think so, try running for office on a platform of eliminating Medicare. See how far you get.) This is the template that should be used for all health coverage in this country.
Oh well, wait for the budget talks next year. Ryan will be gunning for Medicare; after all, we have to pay for the tax cuts somehow.
Safe sex is also about pregnancy - especially in the US. We have a very high rate of maternal deaths compared to other developed countries - especially for minority women, even across class lines.
Safe sex is also about pregnancy - especially in the US. We have a very high rate of maternal deaths compared to other developed countries - especially for minority women, even across class lines.
You wanting to change the definition doesn't make it so.
safe sex /ˌsāf ˈseks/
noun'
sexual activity in which people take precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS
and your graph doesn't tell where it from or even what it is measuring ... it is useless ...
Because talking to kids about Sex is too hard for Republicans.I don't understand why so many conservative Christians are against contraceptive coverage. Most conservative Protestants do not regard contraception as sinful.
Because talking to kids about Sex is too hard for Republicans.
Well, duh - the link is included in the quote. How hard was that to find?I found the article.
Maternal Deaths per 100,000 live births by Country over 25 years ending in 2015.and your graph doesn't tell where it from or even what it is measuring ... it is useless ...
Yet minority women die in greater numbers in the USA during the maternal period.I haven't seen that pre-eclampsia effects any one race more than another....and post partum hemorrhaging isn't racial either.
It's in the article, just above the mysterious graph:It doesn't make sense to me. "boom" the first mother dies...no explanation of what she died of.
That's nice for them - but unintentional and unwanted pregnancies are still dangerous and birth control will prevent most of them.And since all the pre-eclampsic mothers I have cared for had intentional and wanted pregnancies... birth control wouldn't have prevented the condition.
Well, duh - the link is included in the quote. How hard was that to find?
Maternal Deaths per 100,000 live births by Country over 25 years ending in 2015.
Yet minority women die in greater numbers in the USA during the maternal period.
It's in the article, just above the mysterious graph:
In the U.S., on the other hand, preeclampsia still accounts for about 8 percent of maternal deaths— 50 to 70 women a year. Including Lauren Bloomstein.
That's nice for them - but unintentional and unwanted pregnancies are still dangerous and birth control will prevent most of them.
The VA is irrelevant. We've had a different model of single payer health insurance in this country for over 50 years. Which is extremely well-liked (you might even say cherished) by its beneficiaries. Technically, It's a hybrid single payer sytem that combines private insurance with tax-funded coverage. It's called Medicare. Participation is mandatory--everyone who works (legally, at least) and all employers must pay into the system. Along with SS, it is the most popular government program ever enacted. (And if you don't think so, try running for office on a platform of eliminating Medicare. See how far you get.) This is the template that should be used for all health coverage in this country.
Because talking to kids about Sex is too hard for Republicans.
Um...do you know that Medicare doesn't pay enough to cover the care provided. I have a friend whose office provides the cost of a visit for $1 for medicare patients because they lose money by filing the paperwork. The deficit is covered by insured patients in the hospitals. This is also why most primary care doctor offices limit how many medicare patient they can have as clients.
You may be confusing Medicare with Medicaid. Medicaid, in some states, has lost providers due to reimbursement issues. The latest Medicare data I could find is from a 2015 Kaiser Foundation survey. 93% of non-pediatric primary care physicians accept Medicare assignment. Virtually the same as the 94% who accept private insurance. Though 21% are not accepting new Medicare patients, compared to 14% who don't accept new privately insured patients. The article notes that 76% of younger physicians (under age 55) accept new Medicare patents, compared with 67% of physicians over 55 who do. I'm sure some of the difference is because Medicare patients obviously are older, and likely to have more challenging medical problems. Which older providers are less willing to take on. But on the whole, a significant majority of primary care providers accept Medicare, and accept new Medicare patients.
Primary Care Physicians Accepting Medicare: A Snapshot
Though this will be largely a non-issue when some type of single-payer insurance is implemented. If a provider doesn't accept the insurance plan, he'll have to make a living solely from patients who are willing to pay full boat fees out-of-pocket. Which will probably be rather few in number.
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