According to the Los Angeles Times, on Thursday the parent of Anthem Blue Cross attempted to justify large premium increases for individual policies, however, “critics – including the Obama administration – voiced skepticism.” The Los Angeles Times reports, “In a letter to the administration, health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. of Indianapolis said that increases of as much as 39%, set to take effect March 1, reflect soaring medical costs and an exodus of healthy consumers from its ranks.”
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I am not sure how many of the public noticed a provision in the proposed health reform legislation that would have placed a federal tax on cosmetic procedures. The provision was known as the Bo-TAX and it aroused a unified response from the medical community in general and organized medicine in particular. This proposed tax was a clear example of how out of touch the Congress is with the needs of the public. This always happens in government when those who govern make a career of governing rather than serving the electorate.
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Millions of Americans are currently uninsured and the numbers keep on growing. If the health-care reform doesn’t pass, the numbers will continue to grow, and taxpayers will be footing the bill when the uninsured end up in the emergency room. “Families will continue to be paralyzed by the high costs and insecurity of medical coverage,” and “people will opt against entrepreneurial ventures and postpone retirement because of the need to stay on employer health plans,” states Barb Shelly from the Kansas City Star. People will be denied affordable coverage from insurance companies due to “preexisting” conditions, and money spent on medical care will continue to overwhelm the country. “People will continue to die from preventable hospital infections and other unnecessary medical errors,” and “physicians will continue to be paid for procedures, not results,” reports Shelly.
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Many states aren’t happy with the pending health-care bill. Fifteen states are actually threatening to sue the government because of a subsidy that is being offered to Nebraska. This subsidy is “capricious and arbitrary treatment of Nebraska,” states South Carolina’s Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster, who has put together a crew of 15 attorneys to carry out a lawsuit.
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Appropriate health care involves being able to see a doctor conveniently and frequently, and having doctors being able to attend to health issues before they get worse. However, Medi-Cal patients in California don’t get to visit primary care physicians easily and regularly, and are more likely to visit overcrowded emergency rooms and end up getting sicker. Expanding Medi-Cal is like “building a house on a sloping, cracked foundation,” states Anmol Singh Mahal from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The health-care reform is aimed at getting more people insured and making sure that people can get appropriate treatment in appropriate settings. It’s also focused on “helping to keep chronic illnesses such as diabetes in check,” states Newsweek. However, the proposed bill “doesn’t explicitly tackle…how the medical industry’s response to unexpected public health crises and epidemics would differ,” reports Newsweek. The reform is focused more on every day issues, rather than extreme outbreaks, and there’s not much in either the House or Senate bills about closer observation of outbreaks.
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As the health-care reform progresses, the public’s dislike towards the pending bill continues to grow. And as a result of the public becoming more and more displeased, Obama’s popularity is on the decline. U.S. News reports that, “A poll released Tuesday by CBS News shows the decline to be continual, with 54 percent of the more than 1,200 adults surveyed saying they disapproved of the way in which Obama was handling healthcare.” And feelings towards Congress are worse as 57% say they aren’t happy with how the Democrats are dealing with the issue, and people aren’t too happy with how Republicans are handling the issue either as 61% reported they are dissatisfied.
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Clark made this video a while ago, but we did not find it until it aired on HLN where it was seen by almost a million people! Did you see it on TV? If not, here’s another look…
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The Washington state Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler, reported that the number of Washingtonians with no health insurance will soon grow to 1 million.
He also predicts that the cost of uncompensated medical care in the state will reach $1 billion annually by 2011. “The widespread and growing lack of health insurance in Washington state is hurting families, communities and our state’s economy in ways that we can no longer afford to ignore,” states Kreidler.
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