The US Health Care System

Billions Wasted, Countless Deaths:  You Call This Medicine?

This is the status of the health care system in the United States.

This trend is going to increase:  more wasted spending, more deaths and more people in bad health.

The government is powerless to change any of this; in fact the government is the cause of it.

The problem is not hard to solve, unless you are a complete idiot.

Health care costs could decrease while people’s health improves with just a few changes.

 

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The Loss Of Quality Health Care

Quality health care is disappearing.  What quality health care there is, is for those who can pay for it.

Company health insurance plans and government provided health insurance do NOT provide (high)quality health care.  These programs provide mediocre health care for the masses.

Why is this happening?

Government interference in the health care industry.  And, it is an industry.  The government continues to think the answer to health care problems is regulation and price controls.  All these(regs and controls) do is force any innovation in the industry to be focused on getting around the regulations and controls.

The government continues to try to implement socialist policies.  Will the politicians never learn?  Socialism NEVER works!

What does this mean for you and your family?

Life spans are getting shorter.  More people are dying younger.  More people with have chronic conditions.

This means a lesser quality of life.

What can the people do about this?

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Our blogs are alerting you to what is happening in the world, the dangers and disasters that WILL make your life worse and eliminate your happiness.

Our blogs will provide guidance on how to fight back against incompetent and corrupt government.

If people do not take action, the United States will soon have a third world health care system.

 

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What If Your Doctor Is WRONG?

Well?

Everybody thinks that their doctor is always right.  What stupidity!

Totally rely on your doctor:  get sick and maybe die.

Doctors’ Errors

-prescribing the wrong medicines

-prescribing too many medicines

-unnecessary tests and surgeries

-surgical errors

-the list goes on and on

The medical authorities do NOTHING to stop these errors.  Incompetent doctors are allowed to keep practicing.  Malpractice insurance payments do NOT compensate for the loss of an arm or leg.

Why are incompetent doctors not in jail?

Because members of the medical authorities are DOCTORS:  they protect their own kind.

You need to protect yourself from the corruption and incompetence of the medical profession.

Our blog can show you what to do.

 

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Myths About u-bam-a care

Many people think u-bam-a care is the way to improve health care in the United States.  These people dream of cheaper coverage, coverage for the uninsured, better heath care, and everything else.  As they say, “ain’t gonna happen”.

Some of the common myths about u-bam-a care are:

-health care costs will be brought under control

-it will regulate medicare drug costs

-pre-existing conditions will be covered

-everyone will have health care

NONE OF THIS WILL HAPPEN!

u-bam-a care increases health care costs while reducing the quality of health care.  It will also be a step toward the rationing of health care.

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DEATH PANELS FOR THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

AN ARTICLE FROM GARY NORTH

 

 

“We Need Death Panels,” Writes Obama Advisor

Written by Gary North on October 5, 2012

Yes, he really said it. He is an honest man. These were the opening words of a New York Times Op-Ed article.

He got my attention!

Then he explained.

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

He is playing verbal games here. Rationing means that a committee must allocate scarce resources. A committee is a panel. In life-and-death situations, some people will die.

It’s called “pulling the plug.”

As surely as a battlefield physician uses triage to decide who gets treatment, so will death panels.

Let’s call a spade a spade. Let’s call them death panels. That’s what they are.

Geezers get money from the federal government: Medicare. Geezers therefore get on the inevitable list. The panel looks at the list and asks: “Who should live? Who shouldn’t?”

There are no free lunches. There is no free life extension.

But in the pantheon of toxic issues — the famous “third rails” of American politics — none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.

Resources are scarce. Those in charge of allocating them must decide who gets them. This is an economic law. It is inescapable.

The irresistible force is about to hit the immovable object.

Most notably, President Obama’s estimable Affordable Care Act regrettably includes severe restrictions on any reduction in Medicare services or increase in fees to beneficiaries. In 2009, Sarah Palin’s rant about death panels even forced elimination from the bill of a provision to offer end-of-life consultations.

Ah, yes: the evil Sarah Palin, who called a spade a spade.

But help is on the way! There will be lots of creative ideas. President Obama has promised this.

Meanwhile, Mr. Obama’s hopes for sustained cost containment are pinned on a to-be-determined mix of squeezing reimbursements, embracing a selection of the creative ideas that have spewed forth from health care policy wonks and scouring the globe for innovations.

To Mr. Obama’s credit, his plan has more teeth than Mr. Ryan’s; if his Independent Payment Advisory Board comes up with savings, Congress must accept either them or vote for an equivalent package. The problem is, the advisory board can’t propose reducing benefits (a k a rationing) or raising fees (another form of rationing), without which the spending target looms impossibly large.

That’s the view of the bipartisan Medicare trustees, whose 2012 report stated: “Actual future Medicare expenditures are likely to exceed the intermediate projections shown in this report, possibly by quite large amounts.”

What does this mean? This: Medicare will go broke. But before it does, a committee will decide whether to pull the plug on granny.

Let’s not forget that with the elderly population growing rapidly, even if cost increases for each beneficiary can be contained, Medicare would still claim a rising share of the American economy.

Medicare needs to take a cue from Willie Sutton, who reportedly said he robbed banks because that’s where the money was. The big money in Medicare is not to be found in Mr. Ryan’s competition or Mr. Obama’s innovation, but in reducing the cost of treating people in the last year of life, which consumes more than a quarter of the program’s budget.

No one wants to lose an aging parent. And with price out of the equation, it’s natural for patients and their families to try every treatment, regardless of expense or efficacy. But that imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear. Many countries whose health care systems are regularly extolled — including Canada, Australia and New Zealand — have systems for rationing care.

Death panels are inevitable. Resources are not free. The panels used to be called “families.” They are now called . . . what?

Politics will decide what they are called and how much power they will have. But government will make the call.

That’s because government is now paying the bills.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Will the tune be “Taps” for granny? Count on it.

 

EDITORIAL COMMENT

DIE GRANNY, DIE.

And it will be your granny that gets the axe.

 

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Banned From huffpost

 

 

huffpost has banned us from commenting on their articles.

This is censorship pure and simple.

Why were we banned?

This is our speculation:  our comments continuously criticized the stupidity, bias and evil of their articles.  Instead of dealing in facts, huffpost resorted to censorship.  Cannot win, they they took their toy and went home like a spoiled child.  This is unAmerican, but maybe uneducated brats know nothing about being an American.

In our opinion, most of what was written on huffpost was propaganda of the Goebbels style pushing the Democratic party’s ideology and the re-election of u-bam-a.

If this is what huffpost is about, why would any honest, intelligent American read their articles?

 

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Death Panels

Found on the internet.

 

Death Panels: Greasing the Skids in the Media

Written by Gary North on June 8, 2012

 

There will be death panels. When the government takes over medical finding, there must be triage. Panels will decide: (1) Who cannot be saved; (2) who don’t need to be saved; (3) who is left over. That is what battlefield medicine has decided ever since World War I. Battlefield medicine is government medicine.

All the “shock and horror” that liberal Democrats feigned when this issue was raised about Obamacare was just a smoke screen.

The once influential but now peripheral news magazines, Time and Newsweek, have done cover stories on euthanasia: killing granny. The Newsweek story is forthright: “The Case for Killing Granny.” It was written by Professor Evan Thomas of Princeton, who used to be the editor of Newsweek. The Time story was written by veteran Washington reporter Joe Klein: “How to Die.”

Both stories begin with the story of the author’s parents. The strategy here is to personalize the issue. Then they move from the personal (individual responsibility) to the general (bureaucratic responsibility). It’s all about the famous bottom line. Prof. Thomas writes:

Compared with other Western countries, the United States has more health care—but, generally speaking, not better health care. There is no way we can get control of costs, which have grown by nearly 50 percent in the past decade, without finding a way to stop overtreating patients. In his address to Congress, President Obama spoke airily about reducing inefficiency, but he slid past the hard choices that will have to be made to stop health care from devouring ever-larger slices of the economy and tax dollar. A significant portion of the savings will have to come from the money we spend on seniors at the end of life because, as Willie Sutton explained about why he robbed banks, that’s where the money is.

The death panels are coming. They have to come. The government has to have rules for spending money. The rules must determine who wins and who loses. There is no possible escape from this responsibility. If the government pays for any service, it must do so within written rules.

Liberals know this, but they at first pretended that it would not apply to Obamacare. Of course it will apply to Obamacare, if the program survives the Supreme Court’s case. It applies to Medicare, too.  Medicare operates under the laws of the United States government. It is not legally allowed to spend taxpayers’ money on anything not authorized by the law, which means rule books.

Spending money on old people must come under rules. These rules must cover when it’s time to pull the plug.

This can be delayed for political reasons. Now the Establishment has begun to prepare the public for the inevitable.

It’s not that Time and Newsweek have much influence any longer. A generation ago, they did. Today, they are weather vanes. They let us know what the unofficial Party Line is for Establishment thinking.

To read the Newsweek story, click the link.

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