The long term effects to the cost of American Health Insurance has yet to be realized as more and more Americans fall through the crack of excellant health care. Without vital screenings, Americans will develope disease with higher costs and higher risk of death. The face of American health insurance is changing but not necessarily for the better. In Massachusetts, those that are uninsured will be required to pay penalities for that status. That is not a viable health care policy but simply a punitive option for what a family may or may not be able to afford.
We need a single payer system that spreads the cost of insurance across the largest health care pool available. That pool is the American society. Childhood obesity will result in huge health issues and diminished capacity for any work force in the future. Without a national strategy to limit the impacts of poor choices while facilitating a return to simply 'gym classes' nationally, the future of our children is growing more and more dim.
The sale of hospitals is simply a 'symptom' of a society without sufficient infrastructure to support it's health needs.
Hospital sale just tip of iceberg
...The Exempla sale is still being challenged in court by people concerned about diminished health-care options, so Suthers' is not the last word. Questions about such deals are obvious. For instance: Why should a religious group parcel out only those health-care services with which it feels comfortable?...
SCHIP Crucial For Many SD Families (click here)
It took three tries, but the president signed a bill Saturday funding State Children's Health Insurance Programs for the next year and a half.And while this version is shorter than two other bills that were recently vetoed by Bush, people who use the SCHIP program in KELOLAND say they are relieved to see it continue for now. Michelle Reichert is a single mother. Her son Kamar is almost ready for his 18-month checkup which would involve a full physical and six shots. And neither appear to be worried about it today. "We've been healthy this year, it's just routine stuff that I know I wouldn't be able to pay for if I didn't have it," Reichert says.Reichert has two other children and works full time, and she relies on the State Children's Health Insurance Program to ensure her kid's checkups are covered....
Without a healthy society, there is no sovereignty that matters.
