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Without starting a huge political debate, can we discuss the costs of patented medicines?
I'm reading There is No Me Without You , and it's been my first introduction to a lot of things about the history of AIDS and the worldwide fight against it. It ...
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But I don't think you can say pharma is responsible for rising healthcare costs anymore than that are to blame for the ever-rising healthcare costs, and not the insurance/malpractice issues to the insurance company margins....
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I'm wanting to keep this separate from policy issues of what we will and will not pay for which needs to be figured out too
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The hundreds....
The idea is to create a NEW low cost GROUP and device approvals.
Barrett and Michele are right on track that offer group healthcare) and the government.
And unnecessary healthcare costs come from poor coordination.
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Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign | Raw Story
"Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign"
Almost three times the amount given to McCain
Oh. That explains it. "Transparency" and "reducing lobbyist...
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Connect everyday things to a 'healthcare' cost, use violence is hiking....
To a 'healthcare' cost, use your newly acquired power of controlling costs to then dictate to control the people via a 'healthcare' mechanism.
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On 24 Aug 2009 17:32:11 GMT, Dewey <dewey3kNOSPAM@gmail.com
Health insurance companies in the US last year reaped profits equal to
the entire cost of national healthcare in Canada.
That means that Americans spent the same amount of money healthcare...
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Medicare's total....
Let me ask you, " are you an insurance exec or high up in
the healthcare it is an inconvenient truth.
Politician! Support Healthcare Reform!
Looks like a lose lose
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:23:39 the
corporate lies.
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Hey folks,
I am trying to find out about President Obama's Healthcare Reform and the Affordability Act. I understand most of the reform will be in place by 2014. If someone loses their job, do they get free healthcare until they are employed?
Please note...
Started by stemikger on
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Healthcare costs in the northeast are very high compared to other regions, but you can at least get the title to something more specific, for example, "Losing a job and eligibility for Healthcare Reform to something more specific....
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32 million more insured. Sure, it's a piece of crap compared to what most other Western Democracies have. But damn it all, I've got healthcare now!
Started by Nemo on
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Nevertheless will collapse and universal coverage....
That's why all of coverage offered by insurance will increase and that will drive up societal cost.
It will increase costs for everyone, it's simple math.
That "it won't cost anything".
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Let people die if they can't afford emergency care. How very, very Christian of him.
Started by Romantic Heretic on
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If you look at how much money we piss away on healthcare in our last month of living, it's probably the government ought to consider restricting treatment, simply because the costs can be so but do nothing, we could be legally culpable....
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Just to set the context for the debate. I'm not American, and have no interest in getting pigeonholed into one side or the other of the crazy ideological divide y'all have going on over there. This is not springing from any interest in what's happening...
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In the US, wasted administrative healthcare spending alone is as much as $120 billion as administrative costs....
An expensive healthcare system by spreading the cost? What''s the root cause of the high expenses costs).
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So since it seems that healthcare costs will continue to rise, medicare is going to have to make cuts in places. Why can't the government raise the % of income that we pay for medicare tax? Why do they think they have to reduce physicians fees? Seems ...
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Why can't increasing costs associated to practicing (ie malpractice, overhead, etc).
That healthcare costs will continue to rise, medicare is going to have to make cuts in places.
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:54:26 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Barss <barss@basil.u.arizona.edu
This is really excellent -- a nonpolitical look at the
healthcare and reform thereof issues:
http://brightcove.newscientist.com/services/player/bcpid2227271001?bctid...
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On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:54:33 -0600, Wes ... .
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:51:31 -0600, Wes Struebing <strueb@carpedementem.org
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:54:26 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Barss
<barss@basil.u.arizona.edu
Hangs my browser just trying to open it.. .
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