US Senator Jeff Flake states there are 183,000 Arizonans with an income under $50.000 per year that pay the fine to the federal government every year. That is their right. ONLY 183,000 uninsured Arizonans is a far cry from 903,000 Arizonians in 2014 that did not have health care.
September 15, 2015
By Ken Allucker
...The report said (click here) that about 215,000 Arizonans secured health insurance in 2014, but about 903,000 still had no health coverage at the end of the year. Those figures, culled from a survey, have a margin of error of less than 1 percent and do not account for those who gained or lost coverage this year....
Arizona proves the corruption within the Republican Party and arguments of the GOP. There are vastly more Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act. There are issues that have to be resolved. Congress has to control the cost of health care. The USA's costs for health care are ridiculous.
Currently, in Chapel Hill, State of NC has provided construction on still yet more medical facilities. The construction never stops at UNC-Chapel Hill. The population that uses UNC-Chapel HIll doesn't grow that fast. High Point University, with $50,000 plus tuition costs and fees wants to build ANOTHER medical school. Really? The previous Governor and the current legislature tosses as much money to High Point U. as possible with ambitions to shut down the public medical schools. Corruption. The city of High Point is disappearing for the construction. Soon HPU will have it's own zip code. The construction in the state of NC is because of corruption and the ridiculous clout of the construction lobby. Construction in NC is one of the few industries still in NC providing jobs.
The cost of health care in the USA is artificially inflated for political reasons and greed. The costs are ridiculously out of control and need be reviewed and cost controls placed.
Now, if regulations are not instated where the costs occur, the USA can institute "SIngle Payer." Those are the two choices. The Affordable Care Act is a great law. The fact the industry decided to institute greed when it should have sought greater numbers of insured is the majority of the trouble with the ACA. Cost controls have to be instituted because the industry decided exploitation of the insured was not only legal but advantageous.
There will be no more return to crowded emergency rooms, long waits for care or Americans that die because they did not have insurance. The country needs to continue to improve health care, research and quality of life of Americans; the cost of health care is part of that. I don't want to hear there are still waiting times in the ERs, because it was a lot worse or there were simply Americans that did not go to the ER because they did not have insurance.
The problems with health care needs to be realized, including what is driving costs and end the high costs to Americans. There can be no more foot dragging by politicians to seek the answers to the cost to Americans.
October 31, 2014
By Kate Ashford
...“If you are in a high-deductible health plan, (click here) you have a financial incentive to shop for a lower priced MRI, but it’s incredibly difficult to do so,” says Neeraj Sood, Ph.D., director of research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California and one of the authors of the aforementioned study....
There will be no more dirt cheap policies with ridiculous deductibles that prevents Americans from seeking health care, either!
The cost have to be standardized. Massachusetts once again comes to mind. It's health care has thrived under the state's health care laws. I think it is a good start, but, a country wide cost containment has to be instated in one form or another. THE FREE MARKET does not work for health care. I don't see someone in Maine looking for care in California because the costs are lower, do you?
Portability will do little to nothing except to build enormous health care insurance providers that will then have control to do what they want to charge as much as they want. The insurance commissioners in every state probably have all the statistics Congress needs. They probably can make recommendations as well to improve the costs. But, the industry has to be addressed.
The employees within the healthcare industry has been squeezed as much as possible by the CEOs and will need unions to protect their interests as the USA institutes cost containment. The CEOs will never give up their bonuses.
Americans paid well for their skills and hard work equate to higher GDPs and growth. No unfair labor practices to reduce costs will be tolerated. There are plenty of places the costs can be improved and the salaries of the non-medical personnel can be one of the first places to look.
The health care industry is primarily non-profit at the level of the hospital, but, yet the costs are never contained. The industry is exploited by others outside of health care and it needs to stop. Doctor corporations have to be studied to find answers for cost containment. There may need to be specific standards for non-profit and incorporation for the health care industry; the exploitation is hideous today.
Arizona proves the corruption within the Republican Party and arguments of the GOP. There are vastly more Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act. There are issues that have to be resolved. Congress has to control the cost of health care. The USA's costs for health care are ridiculous.
Currently, in Chapel Hill, State of NC has provided construction on still yet more medical facilities. The construction never stops at UNC-Chapel Hill. The population that uses UNC-Chapel HIll doesn't grow that fast. High Point University, with $50,000 plus tuition costs and fees wants to build ANOTHER medical school. Really? The previous Governor and the current legislature tosses as much money to High Point U. as possible with ambitions to shut down the public medical schools. Corruption. The city of High Point is disappearing for the construction. Soon HPU will have it's own zip code. The construction in the state of NC is because of corruption and the ridiculous clout of the construction lobby. Construction in NC is one of the few industries still in NC providing jobs.
The cost of health care in the USA is artificially inflated for political reasons and greed. The costs are ridiculously out of control and need be reviewed and cost controls placed.
Now, if regulations are not instated where the costs occur, the USA can institute "SIngle Payer." Those are the two choices. The Affordable Care Act is a great law. The fact the industry decided to institute greed when it should have sought greater numbers of insured is the majority of the trouble with the ACA. Cost controls have to be instituted because the industry decided exploitation of the insured was not only legal but advantageous.
There will be no more return to crowded emergency rooms, long waits for care or Americans that die because they did not have insurance. The country needs to continue to improve health care, research and quality of life of Americans; the cost of health care is part of that. I don't want to hear there are still waiting times in the ERs, because it was a lot worse or there were simply Americans that did not go to the ER because they did not have insurance.
The problems with health care needs to be realized, including what is driving costs and end the high costs to Americans. There can be no more foot dragging by politicians to seek the answers to the cost to Americans.
October 31, 2014
By Kate Ashford
...“If you are in a high-deductible health plan, (click here) you have a financial incentive to shop for a lower priced MRI, but it’s incredibly difficult to do so,” says Neeraj Sood, Ph.D., director of research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California and one of the authors of the aforementioned study....
There will be no more dirt cheap policies with ridiculous deductibles that prevents Americans from seeking health care, either!
The cost have to be standardized. Massachusetts once again comes to mind. It's health care has thrived under the state's health care laws. I think it is a good start, but, a country wide cost containment has to be instated in one form or another. THE FREE MARKET does not work for health care. I don't see someone in Maine looking for care in California because the costs are lower, do you?
Portability will do little to nothing except to build enormous health care insurance providers that will then have control to do what they want to charge as much as they want. The insurance commissioners in every state probably have all the statistics Congress needs. They probably can make recommendations as well to improve the costs. But, the industry has to be addressed.
The employees within the healthcare industry has been squeezed as much as possible by the CEOs and will need unions to protect their interests as the USA institutes cost containment. The CEOs will never give up their bonuses.
Americans paid well for their skills and hard work equate to higher GDPs and growth. No unfair labor practices to reduce costs will be tolerated. There are plenty of places the costs can be improved and the salaries of the non-medical personnel can be one of the first places to look.
The health care industry is primarily non-profit at the level of the hospital, but, yet the costs are never contained. The industry is exploited by others outside of health care and it needs to stop. Doctor corporations have to be studied to find answers for cost containment. There may need to be specific standards for non-profit and incorporation for the health care industry; the exploitation is hideous today.
