We invited you to join the discussion on health care, and thousands of you did. Now, the Health Policy Team’s Tom Daschle and Lauren Aronson respond. For more information, visit http://change.gov/healthcare
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Basic health care ( …
Basic health care (preventive, child,recovery, and emergency) for American citizens should be nonprofit and paid by taxes. Elective care could remain in the domain of the insurance companies. The problem will be in defining the difference.
UHC is not …
UHC is not compatible with individual rights and thus anti-American and immoral.
Until we all get …
Until we all get the used to the idea that there is little or no health care in modern medicine nothing will change much. Modern medicine has focused on aetiology of illness, disease, pathology and there has been hardly any resources devoted to the aetiology of health. The nearest it gets to this is preventative medicine which is early diagnosis of pathologies and not promotion of health. One remarkable Pathologist did recognize this problem 50 yrs ago, Dr Scott Williamson, Peckham Experiment
As a number of …
As a number of others have already stated, what we need is a universal single payer health care system. Anything else that continues to prop up the private health insurance companies, will be nothing more than the equivalent of putting a band aid over a festering wound. Most of those against it either don’t truly understand what it is, or have the attitude “me me me, my my my, get your own”. They don’t understand that they are already paying for uninsured people in terms of higher health costs.
Please make sure to …
Please make sure to pass Universal Health Care!! Obama should remember to keep his campaign promises and especially health care for all. If there is one thing that will ensure Obama’s re-election and a long-term democratic majority rule, the passage of universal health care would be the surest way of doing it.
We spent a trillion …
We spent a trillion dollars to help forgieners in the middle east, that kind of money begs the question why didn’t we spend it on health care and our infostructure.
I would like to see …
I would like to see major steps taken towards Universal Healthcare. 65+ other countries have successfully implemented it and we can easily afford it now with what we currently spend per person per year on healthcare. Im tired of having to consider if I REALLY want to go to the hospital for an injury because I know we cant pay the massive bill that’s going to come after it so personal health becomes a budget issue.
We need absolutely …
We need absolutely to have universal health care with no exclusions on pre existing conditions and some real cost containment. Health Insurance should NOT be contingent on having a job! Our privately run health insurance is a mess. So many different plans..how do you know what each covers? There is no way a government run plan could be any worse than what we have now. Lets roll right over those conservatives and do something for regular Americans for a change!
David
make paying for …
make paying for healthcare easier and less complicated. people who don’t want to deal with the sysetem and the costs let go their wealth to be on medicaid. what about it?
Learn from other …
Learn from other countries healthcare system, promotion and treatment. What about teaching doctors about different ethics in school?
I am impressed with …
I am impressed with your desire to implement more preventative care. Are you aware that Medicare will not pay for a PAP smear. Now there is a basic preventative care issue.
A Retired RN KP
It’d be nice to go …
It’d be nice to go to a doctor and concentrate on the illness rather than worrying “How much is this going to cost me?” Its sad that someone could die not because we don’t have enough trained doctors, or that they live in a poor country, but because they just can’t come up with the money.
I think we first …
I think we first need to get the government out of health care. Whenever the government gets involved in anything the price goes up while quality goes down. The government cannot give anything to anyone without stealing it from someone else. Consider the difference in quality between public and private education, yet it generally costs less to educate a student in a private school. Competition and free enterprise keep costs down, not government control.
finally someone …
finally someone listents to the word of the people or so they say, but stil awsum!
What I would like …
What I would like to change in the health care system is equal access to mental health care. Currently if you are living under the poverty line receiving mental health treatment is incredibly difficult. For example if you are poor and have depression one seeks out help and finds out the cost for therapy and medication is to much. One continues on with no treatment and that makes it difficult to get to work. No work no money.Poverty continues and everyone suffers.
The statement, “As …
The statement, “As anyone who does even a little research will see,” shows bias, and no real research is provided here to back the claim.
But I agree that “all Americans can be provided [health care] for far less [money] than it costs us now!”
I would like to add …
I would like to add that it is important to promote disease and illness prevention; but in addition, it is also important to support medical advances that provide permanent solutions. For example, research to define the exact causes for different forms of ADD will yield the technology to pinpoint what form of ADD an individual has and the medication to treat that specific type of ADD permanently–by rebuilding the necessary equilibrium between hormones in the brain.
Also: Laws on junk food?
like ome said, MANY …
like ome said, MANY other countries have a much better health system than we do.
i have alot of Canadian freinds and the stories are always the same.
the fact is that these careproviders have already been paid buy the Gov. so when they treat you the ONLY concern is the Hippocratic oath and YOUR well being.
whereas here the size of your wallet determines the lvl of care you get.
after a disability i became uninsurable.
no matter how much money or what plan i picked. DENIDED,DENIDED,DENIDED
In 1967, Returning …
In 1967, Returning troops were affected by strange illnesses. We worked in Doctors from the Veterans Administration to create CHELATED TYPE compounds for poison removal (gb laced heroin + other chemicals that was successful. Oral and IV chealtion plus biological antibiotics is highly effective treatment. AIDS was invented and developed as a weapon of war, a coverup of chemical warfare. Truth will save lives, let the real story of AIDS invention be known to all as treatment is needed for MILLIONS
OMG… Obama is …
OMG… Obama is considering preventive healthcare? That’s extra awesome! Eat that, giant evil pharmacies!
I completely agree …
I completely agree with the preventative care approach. I lived in Australia for awhile and the government there is big on this. As of today, Australians have an overall longer life expectancy than Americans. I think we can learn a lot from our Aussie friends.
’4. Avoid creating …
’4. Avoid creating a universal health care sytem whereby everyone gets free health care by the government.’
Care to explain why?
Here’s a scary, …
Here’s a scary, true fact: The health care industry gave out 500 million dollars in Washington, D.C. last year. That’s over one million dollars per Congress person and Senator. Write, folks, for God’s sake write because it’s the only input we have.
We hear we cannot …
We hear we cannot afford univeral health care reform. The truth is, if all our citizens get care, the ONLY kind of health care we can afford is universal health care.
I don’t know about …
I don’t know about you, but I can’t fathom too money people who are sitting on $5,000, just waiting to spend it on their next hospital visit.
You may have that money set aside, but most of the country doesn’t.