Health Insurance

As the U.S. Senate began debating its health insurance reform bill today, Nevada Senator Harry Reid discussed how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will benefit Nevadas senior citizens. This bill will lower premiums for Nevada’s 328,000 Medicare beneficiaries through a number of key reforms, including the reduction of Medicare’s overpayments to private plans and by cutting in half the brand-name drug costs for 58,200 Nevada seniors in the Medicare Part D donut hole. “This is a very good bill — it saves lives, saves money and saves Medicare,” said Reid.

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/03/The_Human_Side_of_Medicine

White House health care policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel argues that technological advancements in health care are ineffectual without “face-to-face, people-to-people, more human” interactions. He says improvement in doctor-patient relationships are needed to improve health care and drive down costs.

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White House Health Care policy adviser and NIH scientist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses high touch medicine with Royal Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee, and Pathfinders founder and director Tina Staley as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. – Aspen Institute

Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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According to a report from the Washington Employment Security Department, Clark County’s unemployed residents who are looking for work has risen from an estimated 18,250 last month, up 1,880 from …

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Where is the U.S. getting its info? the same as for Iraq invasion. WMD’s ?
Where is the unemployment insurance money other people paid?
Do insurance companies take an Oath to care passed the $$$

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/14/TR_Reid_The_Healing_of_America

Reporter and author T.R. Reid examines the success of Canada’s universal health insurance system, which won over Canadians one province at a time. “I’ll bet you next January, there will be bills in 25 state legislators looking for a way to do this,” he says of healthcare reform in the United States.

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T.R. Reid talks about The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care.

NY Times-bestselling author Reid shows how other industrialized democracies have done something the U.S. can’t seem to do: provide healthcare for everybody at a reasonable cost. – Commonwealth Club

T.R. Reid is a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of nine books, including three in Japanese. His 10th book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, was published by Penguin Press in the summer of 2009.

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This is an argument against nationalizing health care and specifically a reaction to a video from Newsish on that issue. It attempts to refute his arguments and prove that nationalizing health care solves nothing. It is one of the first in a series of videos dedicated to saving the world.

References:

http://www.aha.org/aha/content/2006/pdf/underpaymentfs2006.pdf

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_tot_yea-life-expectancy-birth-total-years

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_tot_of_gdp-health-expenditure-total-of-gdp

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10279

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3057

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/lcod.htm

http://www.okicent.org/

http://www.ombwatch.org/node/8732

http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-12.pdf

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/06/03/the-economic-case-for-health-care-reform/

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Open-Heart Surgery–90% off

1.A patient was in need of complicated heart surgery. His hospital said the cost would be $200,000 and wanted $100,000 up front. The patient’s son, a medical student, knew of the medical tourism industry and arranged for his father to have the operation overseas. The complicated surgery was a success. The cost: $6,700.

How is this possible? Excellent hospitals can be built overseas without the bureaucratic red tape found in the U.S., thereby saving construction time. Construction costs are lower, as are nursing, physician and administrative expenses.

http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0813/021.html

$400 per day, per patient (room and board covers mortgage, util and ma)
$25 per day, per patient, per nurse (8 patients per nurse)
$200 per hour, per surgeon (5 hours avg heart surgery, 4 surgeons)
cardiovascular surgeon (1)
Surgeon – Heart Transplant” in the United States is $405,725.
assisting surgeons (2)
about half of the surgeon $200,000
cardiovascular anesthesiologist (1)
$250,000
perfusion technologist, who runs the heart-lung machine (1)
$105,000
cardiovascular nurses (2)
$65,000
$100 per hour testing (4 hours per day)
Common Blood Tests Before Surgery
* CBC: The Complete Blood Count
* Chem 7: The Blood Chemistry Panel
* Liver Function Panel (Liver Function Tests, LFTs)
* PT/PTT/INR (Coagulation Study)
* Arterial Blood Gas (ABG)
Non-Invasive Testing Before Surgery
* Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI)
* Computed Tomography (CT Scan, Cat Scan) and CT Scan Video
* X-ray and X-ray Video
* Ultrasound
Testing Your Heart Before Surgery
* Electrocardiogram (EKG)
* Cardiac Stress Test
* Angiogram
* Echocardiogram

Lease (Mercedes-Benz $54,650 $769 per month)
heart-lung machine
pharmaceutical
10% of health care.

5 days, avg hospital stay for heart surgery
3-5 open heart cases per week per surgeon

COST PER PATIENT
$2,000 room and board
$500 administration
$500 medical equipment lease costs
$2,000 tests
$750 nurse care (2 nurses per patient, 24 hour care)
$4,000 5 hours, 4 surgeons
$1,050 pharmaceutical

TOTAL $10,800
TOTAL PLUS 20% FOR UNINSURED $12,960 (20% of all care)
TOTAL PLUS 6.2% FOR UNINSURED $11,470 (31% of care is hospital)
PERCENTAGE OF UNINSURED & UNABLE TO PAY

INDUSTRY TOTALS FOR HEART SURGARY ALONE
Total open-heart procedures 694,000
US Population 304,059,724 – Jul 2008
Percent of surgeries less then 1% (2/10 of 1% .002)

$2,000 room and board (1.3 billion per year)
$500 administration (347 million per year)
$1,050 pharmaceutical (728 million per year)
$500 medical equipment lease costs (347 million per year)
$2,000 tests (1.3 billion per year)
$750 nurse care (520 million in nurse care per year)
$4,000 5 hours (2.7 billion in surgeon care per year)

The avg cost for a family health insurance policy over $10,000 per year
The avg cost for single payer health insurance policy over $4,900 per year.

Avg monthly cost per single payer over $390
Avg monthly cost for avg heart surgery payed over 3 years at 10% interest $348

LESS THEN 1% of individuals will need heart surgery

SOURCES
1.http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0813/021.html
2.http://ezinearticles.com/?Heart-Surgery-Costs—Why-You-Should-Consider-India&id=102032
3.http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/open-heart-surgery.html
4.http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-09-14-family-health-policy_x.htm
5.http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4674
6.http://news.opb.org/article/3527-er-visits-uninsured-increasing-number-and-cost/
7.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/ervisits.htm
8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
9.http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgeon-salary.php
10.http://www.clarian.org/portal/Clarian/clarian-arnett?ContentID=/hospitals-locations/clarian-arnett/news-media/news-announcements/20090708_100th-open-heart-surgery.xml
11.http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Topics/Proced/index.cfm
12.https://www.perfusion.com/cgi-bin/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=37
13.http://www.apep.uci.edu/der/buildingintegration/2/BuildingTemplates/Hospital.aspx
14.http://surgery.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=surgery&cdn=health&tm=47&f=20&su=p284.9.336.ip_p736.8.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedServices/COE/surgicalServices/generalSurgery/patientEducation/tests
15.http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml

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Health Care Costs Continue to Double and Tripple every 10 years since 1950! #1 Cause of Bankrupcy in US and 75% have full coverage Medical Insurance! Every dime spent, death rates increase. Mass-Global Genocide – Human Sacrifice in America – Shocking but True! Destruction like a FLOOD! No more distraction & manipulation. Greatest destruction – WAR – ever! The Greatest Mass Murder Plot In History Is Now Revealed!

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