Ask the doctor!
 

Welcome to our health related articles Archive

 

(Browse for more articles)

 

National Health Insurance In America, Part 1

President Clinton did not and now Back in the office the following week,
President Bush will not address health one of the women whose job it is to
care reform in a way that deviates even deal with insurance questions, solved the
slightly from the HMO and Managed Care dilemma and the supplies are now paid
Industries that have given large sums for. The child's mother had receipts, and
of money to both campaigns to keep them the HMO reimbursed her from the time of
quiet. Thus these special interests the car accident.
maintain the status quo of the for profit I wondered why the insurance company did
health insurance corporations that have not automatically pay for these
taken over the health care system in services? If I had not helped stage an
America. elaborate fund raising event and had
Every day, approximately 100,000 people dinner with the boy's grandmother, this
lose health insurance coverage in the revelation may not have surfaced. A
United States. Over forty-four million Universal Single Payer health care plan
Americans do not have health insurance would make it possible for all people to
at all. The people who have HMO's as get the services they need and free up
their only choice of insurance doctors and nurses to give the care that
routinely face rejection of payment when people deserve, plus fulfill all of the
serious health problems arise. The reasons doctors and nurses entered their
doctors employed by HMO's make decisions respective professions to begin with: to
about a person's health without laying be of service, to help other people and
hands on the patient. They do not to bring healing to patients and their
examine, listen to or have any contact families.
with the patient about whom life and Physicians for a National Health Program
death decisions are made regarding their in America have devised the following
health. plan for implementation. For more
This is a human rights abuse in a civil information, please access
society such as ours, or any other National Health Insurance, if
society, for that matter. implemented, would minimize any
Search Engine Marketing Specialist disruption to the current health system
Since 1995 SEO/SEM tools, training, and because health care delivery mechanisms
professional "full service" Search Engine would remain in place while only the
Marketing help at very affordable rates. financing mechanism changed. Single Payer
There are over 1500 insurance companies National Health Insurance would resolve
in America with different rules of what virtually all of the major problems
services will or will not be funded. Our facing America's health care system,
facility has hired two people just to today.
handle the health insurance questions Single Payer Insurance is defined as a
that arise every day. They often have a single government fund with each state
frustrated and perplexed look in their which pays hospitals, physicians and
eyes as they undertake to find solutions other health care providers, thus
to problems, and then have to contact a replacing the current multi-payer system
faceless bureaucratic entity about of private insurance companies and other
whether or not a service will be paid plans.
for. It would provide coverage for the
Health care providers must also take the forty-four million people who are
time to speak to these people, to uninsured.
convince them to pay for proposed It would eliminate the financial threat
services. Letters must be written to and impaired access to care for tens of
convince the HMO/Managed Care bureaucrats millions who do not have coverage and are
to take a second look at what needs to unable to afford the out-of-pocket
be done for patients, to ensure good expenses because of deficiencies in their
quality medical care. insurance plans.
Health care workers have accepted the It would return to the patient free
unacceptable and do not seem to know choice of health care provider and
the way out of the quagmire. hospitals, not the choice that only the
I once helped to raise $3,000.00 for a restrictive health plans allow.
seven year old patient who was in an It would relieve businesses of the
automobile accident, and suffered a lower administrative hassle and expense of
spinal cord injury. He is paralyzed from maintaining a health benefits program.
the waist down. The proposed goal for the It would remove from the health care
fund raiser was to buy a handicapped equation the middleman-the managed care
accessible van. Since these vans cost industry-that has broken the traditional
anywhere from $15-30,000.00 dollars, the doctor-patient relationship, while
family bought a computer, instead, diverting outrageous amounts of patient
enrolled the boy in a study offered care dollars to their own coffers.
online by the Shreiner's Hospital in It would control health care inflation
Philadelphia for spinal cord injured through constructive mechanisms of cost
patients. containment that improve allocation of
At the fund raising dinner, I sat with our health care resources, rather than
the patient's grandmother. She told me controlling costs through an impersonal
she wanted the money to be put in a trust business ethic that robs patients of care
fund to pay for the child's catheter so as to increase profits for the
supplies, diapers and medicine that the privileged few. Single PayerUniversal
Managed Care Insurance company would not Health Care would provide access to
pay for. high quality care for everyone at
"Wait a minute," I said. "You mean you affordable prices. This would be
are paying for all of the supplies out beneficial for individual business as
of pocket without insurance well as the government.
reimbursement?" So why don't we have a National Single
"Yes," she said. Payer Plan?




www.halsteadhospital.com keyword stats [2007-10-07-2007-10-07]



Other search engines trends:



Other search phrases:

parakeet illnesses water treatment operator
health insurance coverage pennsylvania department of health
hip health insurance ticks disease
the cure lyrics inbetween days medicare health insurance
the cure friday i m in love famous people with Tay Sachs
medical illness jah cure love is
medication treatment community hospital
community first health plans allied health
america`s health insurance plans colitis treatment
trying to square a circle was an illness just like heaven cure
clark county health department health article
cure sinus infection rozerem commercial why
prostate cancer cure





1 - A - B - C - D - E - F - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 46 - 47 - 48 - 49 -