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n4807g

11/07/11 7:49 AM

#34171 RE: GEO928 #34167

Our current health care system is dysfunctional. The primary reason for this dysfunction is the funding mechanism. When you have specific groups required to provide substantially larger amounts to fund health care you end up with our disaster. Medicaid is the perfect example. Medicaid reimbursements in many states are being cut "to the bone" by fiscally strapped state budgets; there really isn't any reasonable alternative. The private sector insured are seeing their premiums dramatically increase as providers attempt to fill the revenue gap.....and presto, private insured are bailing on the system in droves. The public sector, no problem there, they have the ever available taxpayer to fleece and maintain their relatively low contribution rate.

Until we come up with a consistent and equitable method of funding health care in the USA we will watch the system implode. Anyone who believes the system can survive and watch the inflation rate in health care sit in the 8-10% range slept through math class.

Bottom line: We need an equitable funding mechanism and we need a method of containing cost, today we have neither.
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wall_rus

11/07/11 9:19 AM

#34174 RE: GEO928 #34167

Here's a personal anecdote. A friend went to Mexico to have his teeth worked on. The cost was 25% of what it would have been here.

So the question is....where does that 75% more go?
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lmcat

11/07/11 2:28 PM

#34195 RE: GEO928 #34167

And I know 2 more doctors, one has stopped taking new Medicare patients, the other is winding down his practice and retiring. He is only 62 but said the number of patients he is required to see per day just to cover staff and expenses leaves him less than 3 minutes to see each patient and he does not feel he can properly care for his patients any longer.
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fuagf

11/07/11 3:11 PM

#34198 RE: GEO928 #34167

GEO .. Does It Surprise You Most Doctors Support Universal Health Care?
Mon May 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/05/11/730159/-Does-It-Surprise-You-Most-Doctors-Support-Universal-Health-Care

Did you read it? . . did you see the numbers who support it?

and you give me 2 doctors YOU know and YOUR dentist .. you're kidding!

Some main medical associations fought against the implementation of universal healthcare in Australia for years.