http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/04/30/is-meaningful-health-reform-written-in-the-stars/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:31:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/04/30/is-meaningful-health-reform-written-in-the-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-436 joe Thu, 14 May 2009 21:41:44 +0000 http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=132#comment-436 Steve, dude, you must pa-syhic or something. You wrote this article on April 4 and Bobama said it was written in the stars just yesterday, May 13th, how clever. I've got a question, "how" do you propose that a single issue being "healthcare" will solve the economic problem? That is illogical. The debt the president is incurring on us up to this point is more than the total of all the presidents since the beginning. We cannot and will not sustain it. Eat well today because tomorrow you will starve. Steve, dude, you must pa-syhic or something. You wrote this article on April 4 and Bobama said it was written in the stars just yesterday, May 13th, how clever. I’ve got a question, “how” do you propose that a single issue being “healthcare” will solve the economic problem? That is illogical. The debt the president is incurring on us up to this point is more than the total of all the presidents since the beginning. We cannot and will not sustain it. Eat well today because tomorrow you will starve.

]]> http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/04/30/is-meaningful-health-reform-written-in-the-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Kelly Sun, 03 May 2009 12:02:46 +0000 http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=132#comment-431 Universal healthcare has led to decreased availability of quality care, rationing, and a long list of other problems that lead to increased mortality. Although the system needs a solution, government run healthcare is not the answer unless you are in a hurry to exit this earth. Obama has already expanded the government role beyond belief in 100 days. The government should stay out of private business. Universal healthcare has led to decreased availability of quality care, rationing, and a long list of other problems that lead to increased mortality. Although the system needs a solution, government run healthcare is not the answer unless you are in a hurry to exit this earth. Obama has already expanded the government role beyond belief in 100 days. The government should stay out of private business.

]]> http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/04/30/is-meaningful-health-reform-written-in-the-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Lawrence C. Marsh Sat, 02 May 2009 13:01:24 +0000 http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=132#comment-430 Currently the cost incentives for doctors and dentists invite moral hazard. Health care providers should be paid a salary and not paid on a per-procedure basis. Dentists have been under increasing pressure to pay mortgages and loans for dental equipment at a time when elective cosmetic dentistry has declined during the recession. In order to deter dental fraud, whenever dental x-rays are taken dentists should be required to provide their patient with a CD of their new dental x-rays. This will facilitate the potential of the patient seeking a second opinion and discourage dentists from cheating by ordering unnecessary crowns and procedures not justified by those x-rays or subsequent examination. Dentists should also be required to give their patients a statement about the patients rights to file complaints with the state dental board and how to go about filing such complaints. This would deter dentists from engaging in dental fraud. Our military pays doctors and dentists a salary rather than on a per-procedure basis. Military medical records serve as a natural control group for comparing a salary system with our current per-procedure basis for medical care. These reforms are needed to bring down the cost of health care. Currently the cost incentives for doctors and dentists invite moral hazard. Health care providers should be paid a salary and not paid on a per-procedure basis. Dentists have been under increasing pressure to pay mortgages and loans for dental equipment at a time when elective cosmetic dentistry has declined during the recession. In order to deter dental fraud, whenever dental x-rays are taken dentists should be required to provide their patient with a CD of their new dental x-rays. This will facilitate the potential of the patient seeking a second opinion and discourage dentists from cheating by ordering unnecessary crowns and procedures not justified by those x-rays or subsequent examination. Dentists should also be required to give their patients a statement about the patients rights to file complaints with the state dental board and how to go about filing such complaints. This would deter dentists from engaging in dental fraud. Our military pays doctors and dentists a salary rather than on a per-procedure basis. Military medical records serve as a natural control group for comparing a salary system with our current per-procedure basis for medical care. These reforms are needed to bring down the cost of health care.

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