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How can you rely on individual states to sort out medical care when in all your history only one state MassachusettsYes, I do. I have relatives in health care. States, including mine, have programs that help those who have no insurance. Expanding state, not federal, programs is the right idea. We don't need more big government programs. You fond of the 15 doctor board that under Obamacare would decide what treatments you would given access to for what conditions?
As a direct result of "Obamacare", my company opted out of employer-based health care starting next year, and went to an exchange plan. For me, in order to maintain the same level of health care and comparable coverage, I have to pay an additional $1,400 a year, starting in 2013.
Thanks a lot, Obama. You really didn't help the situation for me.
Do you know anything about medicine? Expanding coverage reduces morbidity and cost. You can argue all day about how we should expand coverage, but the bottom line is that expanding coverage is mandatory if we want the health system of this country to work.
Example: poor person without health insurance has diabetes. No insurance, no primary care doctor to monitor his glucose. Comes into the ED with a gangrenous foot. Or a stroke. Or end-stage renal disease. This all would have been prevented if the glucose was under control, which is impossible to do without a primary care provider.
States are governments to.Expanding state, not federal, programs is the right idea. We don't need more big government programs.
You fond of the 15 doctor board that under Obamacare would decide what treatments you would given access to for what conditions?
Why do you think Obamacare caused them to do this?As a direct result of "Obamacare", my company opted out of employer-based health care starting next year, and went to an exchange plan. For me, in order to maintain the same level of health care and comparable coverage, I have to pay an additional $1,400 a year, starting in 2013.
The myth is that poor people don't receive any medical care because they can't afford it. That isn't true. The problem is they DO receive any medical care they need through the urgent care centers and the emergency rooms...which cost a great deal more than regular MD office care and pharmaceuticals.
There are clinics as well in many of the poorer neighborhoods, outreaches of the local hospitals. If someone doesn't make use of them, it's not the taxpayer's fault.Unfortunate, yes.
You have never proven Obamacare will save 40,000 lives, so your premise is false.
An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company. In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA
If we just want to play with stats, then statistically you're better off staying away from the medical help.
Free Flu Shots for Uninsured Greene County Adults | KSMU
City offering flu vaccines at no cost to uninsured/underinsured residents
so much for your argument that lack of insurance means people can't get preventative care.
Free flu shots? Thats great, but this isn't the problem. Many have the early stages of diabetes and similar diseases that could be treated. They are receiving no care until they arrive in the emergency rooms in serious condition. Many lose limbs or their life because the disease was not caught in time. If they had had health insurance or could afford a doctor, many of these conditions would have been caught earlier.
How do you know they are receiving no care? I had relatives growing up who were diabetic, had no insurance, and they never had any problems getting access to medicines. One of the family died because he decided to ignore the doctor's order to sanitize the needles he used for injections, so he poisoned himself.
Read this thread for discussion of that problem.
You say these people had no insurance but they had access to treatment for diabetes. How did they do that? Did they pay for it themselves? Was there a government program that paid some of the costs?
Local/state government, which as it should be, not a federal/national government program, like Obamacare.
Local/state government, which as it should be, not a federal/national government program, like Obamacare.
Why is a federal government program automatically less suited to providing patient care than a local government program?
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