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UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
(Hillary Style) IS A FRAUD
| February 15, 2008 at 15:03:38 by chris rice |   |
First, Sen. Hillary Clinton doesn't give a damn about the uninsured any more than Sen. John McCain cared about undocumented workers when he wrote the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Politicians care about their big fat cat campaign contributors, not us. Big Pharmaceuticals see huge profits in the uninsured & the under insured if government will guarantee their profits on your dime. Hospitals have been losing billions of dollars every year treating the uninsured & the undocumented in hospital emergency rooms across the nation. And that is how legislation gets wrote in this country, the sad part though is, it won't work.
But the worst part is:
None of the presidential candidates, Republican or Democrats health care systems will solve America's health care crisis. Because 1. they all rely on private insurance companies. In most businesses the more goods you sell the more profits you make, but not with insurance. Insurance is the exact opposite. 2. America is in a disease epidemic caused in part by this nations Farm bill of the last 50 years that has been signed & passed by both Republican & Democratic administrations.
America's Farm bill promotes/contributes to: obesity, diabetes, some cancers, heart-attacks & strokes. First we should stop giving corporate welfare to farmers whos crops are killing us. Some foods should also be required to carry a warning label & be taxed like tobacco because they kill more people than cigarettes do. Second, if we are going to give such price supports they should go to farmers of healthy or organic foods. Which would make the price of healthy foods affordable like unhealthy foods are today.
And lastly, disease is not just treatable it is preventable.
For every dollar spent on prevention eight are saved in the state/federal budget. These simple things would not just save thousands of lives but also billions of dollars.
(According to: American Heart Assoc./ American Stroke Assoc./).
Type 2 diabetes, heart-attacks, 40% of all cancers & strokes can be prevented!
Not only can we prevent this nations deadliest killers but we would actually save eight dollars for every dollar spent on prevention. Then our ERs would not be over-crowded, our doctors over-worked & our hospitals under-staffed.
And yet not one Presidential candidate addresses Americas real healthcare problem. America ranks 42nd in life expectancy worldwide, America is in a disease epidemic that is not only ignored by the Republican & Democratic politicians but was created by the nations Farm bill of the last 50 years. We currently are giving billions of dollars every year in corporate welfare, subsidies, etc. to multi-national corporations & corporate farmers that produce unhealthy foods.
Here's some facts:
*$135 billion dollars are spent each year treating cardiovascular disease.
*Every 25 seconds, an American has a heart-attack.
*Every 45 seconds, an American dies from a heart-attack.
*Risk of death by heart-attack for average American male: 31%.
*32% of all heart-attacks could be prevented by something as simple as taking aspirin daily. (Plavix can also prevent a heart-attack but check with your doctor before starting any new treatments).
*Amount per year treating cancer: $70 billion.
*Proportion of cancers that are diet related: 40%.
*2 out of 3 people with diabetes will die from heart disease & stroke.
Disease is not just treatable, it is preventable & for every dollar spent towards prevention eight are saved!
(According to: American Heart Assoc., Cancer Assoc., & American Diabetes Foundation)
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- Part 2 in a series on Health Care ReformUniversal Health Care or Hillarycare is NOT the Canadian system. Universal Health Care that Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama are promising are nothing like what they enjoy in Canada, France or the rest of the world. We need to understand that what our presidential candidates are offering is more of the same broken system.Both rely on a corrupt insurance system that maintains profits by denying services. Ads like DividedWeFail are paid for by insurance companies. Legislation in America is no longer wrote by caring civil servants beholden to the public but by lobbyist beholden to corporations. Until we remove lobbyist from the legislative/election process we will continue to have unsafe imports, broken borders, huge trade deficits, astronomical national debt, dependence on foreign oil & a broken health care system.The U.S. spends twice as much per person on health care as Japan, & three times as much as Great Britain. Yet both those nations have lower infant mortality rates & roughly the same longevity rates.In fact, virtually all other industrialized nations spend less on health care then we do, but they guarantee universal access to care, & they get better results.The high cost of health care in the U.S. makes it more difficult for us to compete in the global economy. The Chrysler corporation for example, estimates that despite its bold measures to reduce employee health care cost, its health benefits cost the company $700 per car, compared to an average of $200 per car for its foreign competitors.Other countries have succeeded in keeping cost down while providing universal health care by exerting government control over both capital expenditures (for hospitals & equipment), & operating cost (fees for doctors, hospitals & prescription drugs). No other country gives doctors, hospitals or pharmaceutical companies as much freedom to increase their fees & their services as we do. Other countries also have lower administrative cost because health care is paid for, in most cases, by just one payer- the government – rather than a myriad of private insurance companies.Most other nations stress low cost preventive medicine. Take fewer drugs, need fewer surgeries. Almost 25% of all U.S. health care spending goes to managers, administrators, insurers, marketers, & lawyers. Rather than to people who actually provide health care. Administrative cost for private health insurance plans account for an average of 13% of their cost, compared to 3% for government ran insurance. An estimated 600,000 Medicare patients are unnecessarily hospitalized each year – at a cost of $2 billion.Out of control cost, nursing shortage, no access to preventive care, no doctor training for inexpensive herbal remedies, unnecessary procedures, over crowding, under staffed hospitals & ERs, HMOs that deny services, no doctors or clinics in rural areas, high prescription cost, inept FDA, these problems & many others are NOT addressed by either Hillary’s or Barack’s health care reforms. Both have taken millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical & insurance companies, & so has John Mc Cain.Solving today’s problems is not as easy as showing up at the ballot box on November. Voting for either party is a vote for more of the same. Everyone can agree on one thing, our government is broke. When your car breaks down you get out & fix it, when government breaks down or stops working it is the duty of the citizens to fix it!
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