Health Medicine Update

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Half a loaf?  No, worse.  Here is your pre-Christmas present — a big lump of coal.   Let me simplify and make clear my assertion.  You are ill, in need of medical care.   You want the best.   Whose wise counsel and help do you seek?   You want someone who is sympathetic, skilled and competent.

Dr. Howard Dean

Political HealthCare

This debate has never been about Health.   Certainly not your health.  For the last six months I have steadfastly maintained the large insurance racketeers will not lose this one.   They have thrown all their money into the ring.  It has paid off handsomely. Their paid surrogates have performed well.  Like their Wall Street kin, the pirates have won again.   Robert Reich pulls no punches:

In other words, the private insurers are winning and the public is losing.

Pharmaceutical companies are winning as well.

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After countless months the debate marches on.   Congressional House and Senate bills proliferate.  I have lost track.  It is beyond our comprehension trying to read through each of these bills.

There have been many lost opportunities.  This has never been about health care reform.  This is about health insurance regulation.  If you carefully sift through all the heartache stories and testimonials, you will see the real drama – unexpected hospitalizations.   So the real crisis is coverage of catastrophic loss – astronomical hospital bills.  Routine appendectomy — $50,000.  Complicated heart attack — $250,000+.   Catastrophe loss should have been the starting point.

Insurance is not the answer.   It is the problem.   Insurance subsidizes high costs.

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