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November 19, 2012 at 4:23 pm #605633
wakefloodParticipantHey folks,
If you’re interested in implementation of ACA, here’s a link to a guy who knows a LOT about how the health industrial complex works. He worked in it for years. He posts today about some upcoming buzzword advertising you’re going to see in their new campaigns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendell-potter/the-usual-suspects-who-wi_b_2158649.html
November 19, 2012 at 9:57 pm #777879
mtnfreakParticipantWe’re getting ready to switch from Group Health to my wife’s employer health care (Regent/Blue Cross), so we’ve been getting updates from both insurance groups.
Its interesting – because of “changes in regulations” our monthly premiums are about to drop almost 30% – and we received a similar letter from both companies. The difference in cost is so significant that we decided to up our coverage with the new plan, knowing that we’ll only pay the old rate for one month.
Now, neither insurance group sighted the ACA as a reason for this change, just “new regulations”. But I’m deeply suspicious.
November 19, 2012 at 10:46 pm #777880
DBPMemberI’d be suspicious too if someone LOWERED my bill and blamed it on government regulations. (Hmm.)
You’re either going to get a decrease in coverage/service or someone else is going to be footing part of your bill from now on. (Hmmmm.)
Either that or Group Health’s been overcharging you all this time.
Hmmmmmmm . . . .
November 20, 2012 at 7:37 am #777881
HMC RichParticipantThis is interesting. Keep us informed. I would rather hear from the community than any politician.
November 20, 2012 at 6:38 pm #777882
JoBParticipantmtnfreak..
yours is not the only company making some changes :(
we will see how this plays out.. since employees have little choice in the matter.
The truth is that entrusting out health care delivery to the best deal an insurance company will give our employers was maybe not the wisest decision we ever made.
November 21, 2012 at 4:20 am #777883
redblackParticipantjo: i heard maddow explain our de facto health care “system” recently.
turns out that health care was offered as an incentive to vets returning from WW2. a decade later, it was standard bait for recruiting new employees.
three decades later, it was the norm for everyone who wasn’t unionized.
just offering an explanation for how we got here. but that still doesn’t make it right, or, as you point out, a wise decision.
we should have implemented universal health care around the same time we were setting up england’s NHS.
November 21, 2012 at 5:36 am #777884
JoBParticipantNovember 21, 2012 at 7:49 am #777885
dobroParticipantHere’s an interesting story…
Short summary: This person’s healthcare premiums are going up and her employer said in a meeting that this increase is a direct result of Obamacare. Her increases in past years had ranged anywhere from 9% to 28%. This year’s increase due to Obamacare? 3%.
Mark my word, 5 years from now when Obamacare is fully implemented and people can see the benefits for real instead of being sold lies and misrepresentations, the Repubs will never be able to pry it loose. They’ve missed their chance. And the governors that are refusing to create the exchanges, thereby forcing the feds to do it for them,are actually making it easier, not harder, to put things in place.
November 21, 2012 at 7:57 am #777886
dobroParticipantMore info coming out today from HHS on the new rules and regs on insurance companies in Obamacare…
These are draft rules still subject to comment and revision to be finalized in 2013.
November 22, 2012 at 3:30 am #777887
kootchmanMemberWed have three entitlement programs now that are financially unsustainable. Obamacare will be the fourth. What will decide the “fate” of Obamacare.. will be the budget. Democrats will not make a single offer now on entitlement cuts.. much like the social democrats of Greece and Spain. The will take us off the cliff.. idealogues do those sort of things. Be interesting to have a “chat” with the millions of southern Europeans who are now asking USAID for grain imports.. imagine that. But I will make sure to ask my Brit internal medicine doc who left England and his brother who practices in Hong Kong of all places… why did you leave the NHS ?
November 22, 2012 at 3:35 am #777888
kootchmanMemberIn fact redblack…. rationing is fact. Here is what you can expect from the “rationing board” of Obamacare. Two days … ooops missed the cutoff. On this board, we have numerous cases of healthcare that would have been denied due to age. It’s called cost/benefit analysis. Only it won’t doctors and informed patients making decision.. it will be federal guidelines.
United Kingdom)—A young British mother has criticized medical guidelines that, she said, resulted in doctors refusing treatment and leaving her newborn premature son to die. 23 year-old Sarah Capewell told media that her son Jayden, born at 21 weeks and five days gestation, was refused intensive care because he was two days under the limit set by the British government’s National Health Service (NHS) rationing guidelines.
See that redblack? Rationing guidelines.
Learn the term Liverpool Care Pathway .. indeed read about it.. a few excerpts for you.
“It can include withdrawal of treatment – including the provision of water and nourishment by tube – and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours. There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent – 130,000 – are of patients who were on the LCP.”
“In the example he revealed a 71-year-old who was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia and epilepsy was put on the LCP by a covering doctor on a weekend shift.
Professor Pullicino said he had returned to work after a weekend to find the patient unresponsive and his family upset because they had not agreed to place him on the LCP.
‘I removed the patient from the LCP despite significant resistance,’ he said.
‘His seizures came under control and four weeks later he was discharged home to his family,’ he said.”
Shock: British NHS Euthanizes 130,000 Elderly Patients Annually
I know, I know.. it can’t happen here..right?
November 22, 2012 at 5:22 am #777889
miwsParticipantNovember 22, 2012 at 5:56 am #777890
kootchmanMemberWell Mike the doctor himself was quoted… but being the smart guy you are… the LCP is yours for the reading. I mean when you quote a doctor I guess it was a right wing plant. Smell the coffee dude… healthcare is rationed.
“There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent – 130,000 – are of patients who were on the LCP.”
That’s 1/3 of the entire hospital population was denied state of the art care for a government protocol.
November 22, 2012 at 5:56 am #777891
dobroParticipantFrom the link..
LifeNews.com also acts as a service provider to furnish news content to media that share the pro-life perspective. The topics covered by LifeNews.com include abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia…”
They call this fair and balanced.
November 22, 2012 at 5:59 am #777892
kootchmanMemberGosh a “pro-life” agenda?!! Beats death panels.
November 22, 2012 at 6:05 am #777893
kootchmanMemberFrom Wiki section “Controversy section”
The LCP has continued to be controversial. It has been claimed that elderly patients were admitted to hospital for emergency treatment and put on the LCP without documented proof that the patient wanted it, or could not recover from their health problem; 48 year old Norfolk man Andrew Flanagan was revived by his family and went home for a further five weeks after doctors put him on the LCP.[29] The Royal College of Physicians found that up to half of families were not informed of clinicians’ decision to put a relative on the pathway.[30]
HALF THE FAMILIES WERE NOT INFORMED THAT THE FAMILY MEMBER WAS “LIVERPOOLED”… AS IT IS CALLED IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND.
November 22, 2012 at 6:08 am #777894
kootchmanMemberAnother source?
A senior cancer specialist today condemned the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway as a corrupt and scandalous system used to free hospital beds of the old and sick.
Professor Mark Glaser said the pathway – in use across the NHS as a way to ease the suffering of the dying – is employed by Health Service managers to clear bed space and to achieve targets that bring more money to their hospitals.
The professor, who treated former Labour Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam during her last illness, said practices in British hospitals are ‘morally bad medicine’ and that he would personally ‘never be treated in a hospital in England’.
‘I would go to America because I don’t trust anybody,’ he said.
He added that he has removed ‘dozens’ of his own patients from the Liverpool Care Pathway.
The intervention by Professor Glaser, consultant oncologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, comes at a time of growing concern over the Liverpool Care Pathway.
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November 22, 2012 at 6:10 am #777895
dobroParticipantNotice how none of this has anything to do with Obamacare, the erstwhile topic of the thread?
November 22, 2012 at 6:17 am #777896
kootchmanMemberDobro… economics has this path already charted and plotted. We ourselves, contained in Obamacare are incentives for no returns after initial hospitalization…. what better way to meet your financial incentive than to kill your patient? They won’t be coming back. You are projecting into the future this wonderful achievement.. at least do some research into the pig in a poke you bought unseen…. others have been down this path. Intellectually too tough? It’s not in the Messiah pamphlet?
November 22, 2012 at 6:21 am #777897
kootchmanMemberBBC a little too biased for ya too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-20151870
Care given to a terminally ill woman at a Derby hospital has been compared to “torture” by her family.
Pritnam Kaur Ghuman died last week after a stroke but her son said it was cruel to deny her food and water.
In Nottinghamshire, the family of Philip Charlesworth claim he was put on the same end of life programme without their knowledge.
Both the Royal Derby and King’s Mill Hospitals said the Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to limit distress.
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Paul Ghuman, who lives in Derby, said he was shocked at the care given to his mother: “To me it is a form of torture. It is a lingering death and you are increasing the torture by denying them the food and drink and drips and medication.
“We don’t leave animals which are sick just to die without medication, we don’t just leave them to die of their own causes, so why do that to humans?
BBC.. right wing as they come eh? Clear the beds… that’s the financial incentive.
You don’t have far to look amigo… a google search of good old Washington state and the use of methadone as “pain management for the poor” is a cautionary tale. You can bet your ass I didn’t get methadone … not on private health insurance!!! Only the government would do that… not outside a confined hospital stay with all the respiration and heart monitors … never a home managed standard of care. Enjoy the MULTIPLE reads… I think KIRO or KOMO got a Pulitzer nomination for it. Hundreds died. Oooops … they got caught… practice ceased. Note only the poor got “universal” access to methadone.
While NEITHER of us “know” the full effects of the ACA…. there is evidence … lots of it.. of other government run healthcare systems… rationing is always a major component.
November 22, 2012 at 6:30 am #777898
dobroParticipant“It’s not in the Messiah pamphlet?”
When people show respect for their partners in a discussion, good things can result. When respect is not shown, it says more about the disrespector than the disrespectee.
November 22, 2012 at 6:34 am #777899
kootchmanMemberWel, Jeesh JoB… I took the healthcare offered.as a young married man with a dependent (well younger) .. and it sucked.. so… I bought supplemental, catastrophic coverage. Oh, my god… actually setting priorities and being responsible! And I could have had a snowmobile, projector screen TV, for the price of 4 pairs of Air Jordans…. per year. $865 per year with a 20K deductible.
November 22, 2012 at 6:38 am #777900
kootchmanMemberWell dobro.. that is what we got… a “Messiah” pamphlet…. a vague promise of free birth control, pre-existing coverage, and very expensive eternal teenager coverage. That was enough to convince the masses. Over half the states aren’t playing. Yes, once we pass it you’ll get to read it… and everybody signed on. Makes me wish for the days of yore selling aluminum siding… you’d be first on my call list.
November 22, 2012 at 6:48 am #777901
dobroParticipant“Makes me wish for the days of yore selling aluminum siding… you’d be first on my call list.”
Some people think they’re smarter and better than other people. You don’t generally want to waste your time talking with people like that. Kind of like why you don’t mudwrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
November 22, 2012 at 6:51 am #777902
kootchmanMemberRead your link JoB… you “can” get billions.. Hostess generated billions… but lost it’s ass.. GM generated billions and went bankrupt…. and Chrysler… just cause the government is giving ya billions doesn’t mean they are profitable billions. Which do you think takes more off the top? The federal government or private health insurance? It costs more for the government overhead which is about 40%.. of every dollar taken in. Makes the insurance industry look downright benevolent.
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