By Roark on 05-04-09
No Senator Baucus, the health care system will be in a REAL crisis when you and your tyrants in DC turn our health care over to the government. What is needed is true a laissez-faire free market health care where competition drives prices down and quality up.
By Bill Watson on 05-04-09
New health care reform proposals that will require citizens to spend good money, to purchase questionable insurance, to participate in the health care system that has failed so many Americans, are harsh and counter productive.
Most politician’s, and spokespersons for insurance, drug companies, health care providers, their publicity directors and lobbyists are ignoring a crucial fact as they present their reform proposals that will mandate that everyone purchase insurance.
ALREADY MANDATED MEDICARE MEDICAID AND HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED IF A NEW LOW COST OPTION FOR DELIVERING HEALTH CARE IS CREATED
The Veteran’s Administration model, run by the government, has been providing care for qualified Veterans for years, totally free; including all prescribed treatments and medications, with total transferability between regions, and it has no restrictions for any preconditions.
Costs of health care paid for by government programs, (Medicare-Medicaid etc.) could be reduced, to a fraction of their current expenditures, with better outcomes, if the services for these programs were delivered from a VA style National Health Care System.
Offering everyone the choice of either using a free, government, owned and operated, VA style civilian National Health Care System, funded by a national sales tax:
Or the alternate choice would be for individuals and businesses to continue to pay for and use private systems for care.
“Stemming the overuse and misuse of health care alone would trim at least $450 billion a year in health care costs — four times the amount needed to cover health care access for the uninsured.” Said former Senate Speaker Dr.Bill Frist, as quoted by writer Scott Takac in a Nashville Banner story on April 29, 2009 .
A VA style National Health Care System, which controls the problems with access, cost, quality, and malpractice, is THE solution for America ’s healthcare problems.
Businesses choosing national health care as the provider for their employees would free them from being involved in any way for the health services their employees receive.
The Best Care Anywhere is an article by Phillip Longman that documents how the VA was transformed by Dr. Kizer, into a system that is producing the highest quality health care in the country.
The system could be jump started by acquiring health delivery systems around the country that would choose to sell to the new National Health Care System.
President Clinton signed a bill in 1996 to “furnish comprehensive medical services to all veterans, regardless of their income or whether they had service related disabilities.”
President Clinton ended my health care nightmare when comprehensive medical services became available to all Veterans.
The entire countries health care nightmare can be ended by creating a VA style National Health Care System option for everyone who would choose to use it and it would save taxpayers a fortune in the process.
By Sons of American Legionnaires on 05-04-09
Are you freakin’ crazy Bill Watson?More malpractice goes on in the V.A. more than anywhere.Google va malpractice and get a clue.What a terrible idea you have!
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