Your thoughts on reforming the US Healthcare system?
Seeing as to how Obamacare is heavily debated and let’s be honest the GOP haven’t put a viable alternative so what are your thoughts on some reform
What should be the main goal of health reform in the US, should it Decrease the cost of health care, Improve the quality of health care, Improve the access to health care or make most Americans receive at least basic free public care. What would it be like for the US if an Australian system like the Medicare service is implemented where all taxpayers pay a 1.5% income tax levy (with exceptions for low-income earners), an additional levy of 1% is imposed on high-income earners without private health insurance. There is also a private health system where people pay for health insurance to go to a private hospital if they wish for quicker service. Bankruptcies from lack of funds to pay for medical bills is the largest reason for personal bankruptcies in the US accounting for over 60 % of all bankruptcies, while in Australia it is almost negligible.
Check out these videos for some information:
http://www.newscientist.com/articlevideo/dn17512/30590602001-the-scientific-arguments-for-us-healthcare-reform.html
So what do you guys think?
medicare for all!
most of the industrial countries that we compete against have some form of universal health care
Germany has a two tier system of private insurers and then a government program
the Germans love it
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmIt sux. .
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmSingle payer.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmReform yes, but not a complete restructuring by people who are obviously ignorant of the facts. There are not enough doctors to treat 30 million more people.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmfirst of all we are not australians alright if you want to immigrate to that turd world dump than be my guest and go say hi to Arnold Schwarzanneger family for me. so stop bragging about australia alrright, we are not europe and we don’t need to be. now i don’t know where you get your news from but rush limbaugh said it clearly -their is no healthcare crisis in America. he has never had a problem with health care and health insurance and he is probably alot older then you. america has a health care system that works because
1. you get a job, you get benefits, you don”t work you don’t get insurance. it is as simple as that. we don’t give health care to bums and loosers who refuse to work. you want insurance go out and get a real job. other countries just give health insurance to everyone including part time workers and people with two part time jobs and people with no time jobs or do nothing jobs -our system motivates you to get and keep a real job or else we end up a poor hellhole like switzerland or japan or new zealand. want health care, get a job.
2. every single person from the foreign countries comes to america for health care. our emergency rooms are full of australians and french and germans who are here because they had to wait for months and years to get health care. they come here they get treated right away and they get the best care.
now i don’t really get it is their something inside the brain of a lib that orders him to look at all that is great about america and try to tear it all down. you people are really sick.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmGovernment should stay out of it. Free market works far better than government meddling any day, because government meddling tries to force things to satisfy special politically-connected big-money interests and in the process the taxpayer gets screwed. The same thing is happening here, and you can see it played out every day with shady back room deals, bribery, and lies.
The American people are going to get hammered on this one.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmThe GOP have proposed viable alternatives. You havent done your research obviously.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmBut that wasnt really your question.
Decreasing the cost should be the objective yes. And you could do that without any taxes.
The Patients Choice Act 2009 bill by R congressmen Paul Ryan was shuttled off to House committe review 8 months ago and havent heard from committees so far.
Empowering Patients First Act by R Tom Price from July has been in House comittee for the last few months.
The Health Care Freedom Act by R Jim DeMint has been in Senate committee for 6months or so also.
I think this is grounds for civil war. There is only one way to get this country back on the right track and that is to eliminate all these Democrat parasites from the country, violently and Balkan style. Democrats are an infestation of pestulence and deserve to be treated as such.
Blessed Be
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmYou start by creating a system that is built around the idea of people becoming healthy enough to keep doctor visits and hospitalizations to a minimum
July 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pmTo that end you require a complete physical at the start of the coverage and then physicals every two years as a condition of keeping the coverage …no exceptions
;People born in odd numbered years get their physicals in odd numbered years and people born in even numbered years……
Once we get past the initial cost -spike of getting people healthy again then then like any well maintained machine the annual cost for keeping them healthy has to drop significantly.
Healthier people not only live longer But since that are more productive they make positive contributions to our society for a much longer period of time
The fact of the matter is that we as Americans live in a unique point in medical history in that most of us will get sick and die from things that our in our power to control.