Health Insurance

Reforming American Health Care

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes George C. Halvorson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, for a discussion of health care reform. Topics covered include: thinking systemically and comparatively about health care; roots of the American crisis; prerequisites for positive change; lessons of managed care systems such as Kaiser, Mayo and Cleveland; the implications of information technology for reengineering American health care; grading Obama’s reforms; and lessons learned from a career in health care management.

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What could be so bad if our medical insurance is able to finally have 100% access to all of our medical records… I mean they are trying to only help us… Right?

WRONG.

All the MII (Medical Insurance Industry) wants from us is our history of what we have, or had before being insured by them. So they can BETTER DENY US.

The could careless about making fewer mistakes, don’t give a crap about saving providers from making phone calls, and for sure will not in out lifetimes pass long the savings if any they claim they hope to make… To the employers, and the members…

DO NOT FOR ANY REASONS THINK THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE FULL ACCESS TO YOUR MEDICAL FILES NOW.

They stae they will make them online for you to access all the time… That means so can they as they now hold the records.

IGNORE the fact that Microsoft is partner, and realize no matter who is partner with the Medical Insurance Industry… Know one thing is going to happen.

FORCED ISOLATION.

That is the fact that the elderly and people with disabilities face everyday. And, now the medical insurance industry wants to do the same thing to all people who are covered.

Why do this? Think about it.

What better way to control people as in Uncle Sam here… Than to control access to health care?

If we are worried about out medical condition being covered by our medical insurance company… Guess what we will not notice… Being RAPED as a bail out is passed in the middle of night… Or as it is allowed full access to our Prescription HISTORIES… You may say, who cares. I changed my name… That’s just it, these medical companies will track down our records from birth if they can. They will use Social Securuty #’s to ID people and follow their life use of prescriptions. Not to make ourlives any easier.

To deny us the access to any and all medical service when we need it most.

And, what better tool to use to control as many people who think they are free as we in the USA?

Without access to health care… GAME OVER. PERIOD.

We can’t argue, we can fight and worse we have no idea what rights we have or don’t because we have been trained to trust the Government and companies around us…

Now it’s time to WAKE UP.

And, I will be posting direct to the point videos sharing what has been done, and looks to be done by the MII…

As we lemmings bend over and take it for all it’s worth… We are being RAPED.

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Richard Kirsch, National campaign manager of Health Care for America Now.
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Our campaign, Health Care for America Now, so, weve put together purposefully the biggest unions, so its SEIU and AFSCME, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, the Communications Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers; MoveOn and True Majority, the biggest online groups; huge community organizing networks, Center for Community Change and USAction and ACORN; Childrens Defense Fund; womens organizations; and a host of, you know, provider groups, like the American Nurses Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. And weve got a hundred organizers around the country. Were also organizing small businesses. The New York Times had an article two days ago about small businesses, organized concerns, and a lot of those are members of a new group called Main Street Alliance, who are organizing. So theres a progressive voice for small business to counter the NFIB. So this is a real movement were building, and thats what its going to take to stand up to the insurance industry.

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In the 1940′s American companies began offering health insurance as part of a more attractive benefits package to workers. -Stay Smart Stay Healthy

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
The United States has a new health care reform law. The main goal is to insure about thirty-two million additional people. That is about ninety-five percent of Americans who are not already covered by Medicare, the government insurance program for older people. About sixteen million people will be added to Medicaid, the government health plan for
the poor. The law will require Americans to have health insurance, with a few exceptions, or pay a fine starting in four years. Also, in four years, employers with more
than fifty workers will have to offer their employees a health insurance plan. Employers will pay a fine for each uninsured worker. Smaller businesses will receive
tax credits to help pay for
health plans. People not covered by employer plans, Medicaid or Medicare could buy health insurance in marketplaces called exchanges.
The idea is that competition among plans will drive down costs.
States will provide these exchanges by twenty fourteen. The law is the biggest change in American health care since nineteen sixty-five.
But it is not a government operated health care system like the ones in other countries. President Obama said it provides limited reform.
He said: So this is not radical reform. But it is major reform. This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system. But it moves us decisively in the right direction.
Barry Arbuckle is chief executive
of the non-profit MemorialCare Health System in
Fountain Valley, California.
He says the new law gets the
issue of health reform moving.
But he notes it is mainly health insurance reform. He says lawmakers will have to reform the way health care is provided. That means finding ways for hospitals, doctors and other providers to work together more effectively. Mister Arbuckle also would like to see more attention on prevention so
fewer people need costly
medical treatment. The law
is expected to cost about
nine hundred forty billion dollars over ten years. However, the Obama administration says the plan will cut the nations budget deficit by more than one hundred billion dollars during that period.
Last year, the United States spent two and a half trillion dollars
on health care. This was an
increase of almost six percent
from the year before.
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Weather does not discriminate between large and small farms. If it rains too much or too little, crop insurance can pay for losses. Yet insurance usually costs too much for a farmer with as little as a hectare or two of land. But now a program called Kilimo Salama, or safe farming, offers low-cost insurance in parts of Kenya. The program is offered by the Syngenta Foundation. The foundation was established by the Swiss agricultural-chemical maker Syngenta. Farmers register at businesses taking part in the program and receive a policy number through their mobile phone. Every time the farmers buy seeds, fertilizer or other inputs, they pay an extra five percent in addition to the price. This extra cost is the insurance premium. The farmers are paid back for the inputs if their crops fail because of drought or flood.The program is designed for maize and wheat farmers like Josephat Langat. He owns a two-hectare farm near Eldoret in western Kenya. He said: “In a case where we do not have a lot of rainfall, it means we are going to lose all the crops. But this insurance policy is going to cover the farm inputs that we use in the farms, so that is going to give us the certainty of going back to the farms again if the rains do not come.”He buys his agricultural inputs at Maraba Investments in Eldoret. About two hundred farmers signed up for the insurance within the first two weeks that it was offered there. Beatrice Kemboi is a director of the business.She says every day she and her workers register from five to ten farmers in the program. When farmers buy their inputs, the store worker uses a mobile phone camera to scan barcode symbols that match the product. A text message confirming the policy number and sale is then sent automatically. The program also uses solar-powered weather stations to record local rainfall amounts. The data is sent to the UAP Insurance Company. When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message. It tells them to receive payment from the business where they purchased their inputs.And that’s the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. You can read and listen to our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. And you can add your comments. We are also on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and iTunes at VOA Learning English.

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