Huckabee's healthcare solution

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http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/02/23/foxs-huckabee-compares-insurance-for-pre-existi/192784

Such a man of god, caring about his fellow human beings.

And this is why republicans have had to resort to gerrymandering for any hope of winning future elections.

Republicans are like a betamax, an eight track, low fidelity, old technology, and society has no use for them.

Good day.

take a deep breath, relax and don't clinch your teeth together, it will all be over in a couple of minutes...

[BIGUN 1,053]

Who's looking after the bridge while you're out?

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

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http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/02/23/foxs-huckabee-compares-insurance-for-pre-existi/192784

Such a man of god, caring about his fellow human beings.

And this is why republicans have had to resort to gerrymandering for any hope of winning future elections.

Republicans are like a betamax, an eight track, low fidelity, old technology, and society has no use for them.

Good day.

OK then lets make all the Democrats , like you, pay higher taxes for the guy who has multiple chronic illinesses who can only pay $100 a month when treatment is $100,000 per month.

I totally agree with not considering preexisting conditions SO LONG YOU PAY THE BALANCE FOR THE TREATMENTS.

Democrats are all OK with helping the needy until THEY have to pay the bill.

Bla Bla Bla more socialist talk.

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And he is wrong WHY?

Well he claims to be a man of god and yet he seems to put the value of money above the care for a fellow human being. Sounds hypocritical to me...

I guess its all a matter of opinion, morally and ethically I feel like its our responsibility as the wealthiest society in the history of the world to take care of the less fortunate. I don't feel its appropriate to say to someone having just won their battle with cancer (but lost their job and insurance in the process) fuck you you're on your own now, hope you have enough money to pay for future treatment if needed.

I hope you never have to experience this for you or your family, but if you do, I hope there are more of "me" in this world than the "huckabee's"

take a deep breath, relax and don't clinch your teeth together, it will all be over in a couple of minutes...

[wmw999 2,121]

I liked one of the comments on this -- "this is the death panels."

Medical care has the option to be endlessly expensive, especially as long as we pay doctors and hospitals for procedures and fixes, and don't reward people for good maintenance in the first place.

I think we need to end up with a two-tier care system (which is, de facto, what we have now). One tier for the public patient, and another, insurance-covered, which covers the more esoteric stuff.

That means that cute little girls will die because they don't get kidney transplants. It means that the adorable child who was mauled by a dog will have to look for donations to pay for cosmetic surgery to fix the damage. It means that the leg break which would be better addressed by surgery will get a cast.

But America is all over people getting more when they pay more anyway -- this model acknowledges that, but makes normal health care a little more accessible for the people who can't afford the high-end stuff.

The gummint should, in fact, pay some doctors to be in poor areas and maintain health, rather than fix disease. If they have a lower-than-average hospitalization cost, they get a higher base pay than doctors who admit for everything, and hospitals that have a higher re-hospitalization cost would have to eat some of the cost for re-hospitalizations.

Right now we have an unsustainable model for health care in the US. It assumes that there will be endless money dedicated to a geometrically-increasing cost for health-fix care, and that's just not a reasonable assumption.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[wmw999 2,121]

They're still paid fee-for-service, and the payment is forgiveness of student loans. As long as we maintain a fee-for-service model and medical treatment escalates, it's going to stay broken.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[wmw999 2,121]

An exclusively fee for service model rewards doctors for prescribing more services, and offering them in-house. While this is great for convenience and for rich people who can afford that convenience, in an atmosphere where the technology is increasingly expensive (and profit-motivated -- think of all the "new" medications) this might not be the best go-forward model.

"We've been doing it that way for decades" might not be the best way to judge things.

Fee for service isn't going away. But it does need to be supplemented with some other model that will reward the maintenance of health, rather than the application of fixes.

Consider the code world, where things are often similar. Normally when a new release comes out, it's more bloated, because developers add function without necessarily stripping out no-longer-needed code. After all, machines are getting faster and faster. But the old crap is still in there, and eventually a re-write is needed for even the best of code.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[kallend 1,623]

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So you think its appropriate for someone to wait untilafter an event to buy insurance and expect it to pay?

Honey guess what? Were pregnant!

Oh thats great. Id better go buy some insurance to pay for it.

This is a start-up transient due to the stupidly inadequate system we had previously that encouraged freeloading.

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