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AMA president-elect sees more stresses on stressed-out system

AMA president-elect sees more stresses on stressed-out system: “What is the AMA’s position on nationalized health care or having the government be the single payer for health care?
(The AMA’s concern has been), if you had the federal government paying, you would have the federal government deciding, and patients would no longer have a choice. … The AMA supports everyone having health insurance, but not that the government is a single payer. You need to change the tax code so that as an individual you get the same tax benefit as the employer. If you make more than $100,000, you should be required to purchase your own health care insurance … and if not, you have a tax liability. If you make below $100,000, you get a tax credit … to purchase your health insurance.”

Kennedy leads renewed effort on universal healthcare – The Boston Globe

Kennedy leads renewed effort on universal healthcare – The Boston Globe:

“Kennedy is not alone in trying to get a head start on the healthcare debate. Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, held a healthcare summit in mid-June, and a bipartisan proposal to make private insurance accessible to all Americans has been put forward by Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, and Robert Bennett, a Republican from Utah.”

The “Big Mo” building just in time for a new, Democratic President in 2009…

Today in Investor’s Business Daily stock analysis and business news

Today in Investor’s Business Daily stock analysis and business news:

“Americans should know that one of the founding fathers of Canada’s government-run health care system has turned against his own creation. If Claude Castonguay is abandoning ship, why should Americans bother climbing on board?”

The author points out the failings of the Canadian and UK systems, but not their successes, nor our failures here in the US.

I think both Canada and the UK have the opportunity to right their ships (Britain is already doing so), but suggesting that the solution is something like our mess has been rejected outright by Canadians and Brits. They know they have problems, but they also know the solution does not lie in the US system.

Finally, the piece would have benefitted from pointing out, again, for those who still don’t understand it, that there are many universal healthcare systems in the world that do a far better job than our “free market” at providing care at lower cost with better outcomes.

Cheers,

Speech assignment

In January we will have a new president. That means one of them will be promoting their health care plan from the White House and one of them from the Senate.

And Jeff Sherman will be our congressman and will have to work to decide how health care reform will proceed for the next 4 to 8 years.

You higher small-business people. Every year we get our annual health-insurance bill and our jaws drop. Some of us are paying for ourselves and our families only in some of us are doing our best to keep covering our employees without bankrupting our businesses. If you like me, you may find it tough enough to keep up with your quarterly tax estimates the least you know what to expect health-insurance costs are rising at astronomical rates and we can’t vote the CEO of mega health out of office for doing such a lousy job

Maybe his/Peabodybusiness is doing well enough that there is no big deal for him.

when you have all the money we spend in the US and divided among the 300 million of us who spend about twice as much per person is a typical European country or Japan or Australia area and a recent study showcased in the Wall Street Journal found as we may be wasting as much as $1.2 trillion a year of $2.2 trillion dollars a year we spend on health care . Don’t get me wrong I’m an intensive care doctor and I oversee minor gurgles everyday. Our high-tech care are cancer and heart care are second to none in the world. But neither is Belgium’s. Or New Zealand. Or Switzerland. Something’s got to give.

I can tell you what no bombs and Clinton’s proposals might look like, and they may be dead on right.. Change makes everyone nervous, but I can also tell you this if they look like they’re handed down from on high like the 10 Commandments, there are a lot of people who are going to do their damnedest to stop any change whatsoever good or bad. Peabody would be one of those guys. On the other hand if you support Jeff he knows we need change and he also knows change won’t happen unless we have a national conversation about what what Americans want what changes will work for America.

That’s why Jeff Sherman will be calling on the president for health care reform commission to bring together is only for POTUS can the best and the brightest to head a national conversation of healthcare

Okay other notes:

I’m really just add the parts about Kennedy, the best and the brightest, NASA was an administration and why don’t we have faith in government anymore, why does the commission sound like a joke to us and it should represent the best of America.

A link: Universal health care: Views of medical students

Title: Universal health care and reform of the health care system: Views of medical students in the United States
Author(s): Huebner J (Huebner, Jeffrey), Agrawal JR (Agrawal, Jaya R.), Sehgal AR (Sehgal, Ashwini R.), Jung P (Jung, Paul), Hedgecock J (Hedgecock, Joan), Simon SR (Simon, Steven R.)
Source: ACADEMIC MEDICINE 81 (8): 721-727 AUG 2006

Democracy and Health Care

Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

I am going to start to accumulate on this site information which I think is useful, primarily to me, regarding health care policy, universal health insurance and other issues of interest inmedical politics, health care economics, medical liability, etc. I start with Churchill because, there is no perfect answer to our problems in health care, but I think some solutions are better than others. I believe in doing the most good for the most people, helping the less fortunate, and, possibly most importantly, reducing waste and redundance in our system.

So, I’ll do this as often as I can and try to make it interesting.

Cheers,

Chris