Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Monday, September 19, 2016
Drug makers use nationwide strategy to fight opioid limits - Part I
Drug makers use nationwide strategy to fight opioid limits
Need to outlaw corporations giving campaign $ and lobbying Congress and State Legislatures. This is a good health care example. Insurance companies also spend millions on this.
Need to outlaw corporations giving campaign $ and lobbying Congress and State Legislatures. This is a good health care example. Insurance companies also spend millions on this.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News
Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News
We need to treat access to health care as a right and the drug issue as a health care problem.
Money is behind what we have now. Insurance companies are out to make a profit and their execs are out to make millions personally. My personal access to health care is NOT in their best interest. Take their money out of the system and move it into covering all and we will spend less with better outcomes. Prisons have become profit sources for corporations. Some are owned on run by corporations. Many sub-contract a lot of services to for-profit business, (food, maintenance, telephone access, etc. are examples). Incarceration as a response to drug use does NOT reduce the problem. In fact, it makes it more criminalized by being a 'school' on how to be a criminal and reducing the likelihood of being able to be legally independent and self supporting when released. Money spent on jails and prisons can be reduced and shifted to Portugal's type drug response. It would be less expensive and have much better outcomes.
We sure have a lot to learn from other countries.
We need to treat access to health care as a right and the drug issue as a health care problem.
Money is behind what we have now. Insurance companies are out to make a profit and their execs are out to make millions personally. My personal access to health care is NOT in their best interest. Take their money out of the system and move it into covering all and we will spend less with better outcomes. Prisons have become profit sources for corporations. Some are owned on run by corporations. Many sub-contract a lot of services to for-profit business, (food, maintenance, telephone access, etc. are examples). Incarceration as a response to drug use does NOT reduce the problem. In fact, it makes it more criminalized by being a 'school' on how to be a criminal and reducing the likelihood of being able to be legally independent and self supporting when released. Money spent on jails and prisons can be reduced and shifted to Portugal's type drug response. It would be less expensive and have much better outcomes.
We sure have a lot to learn from other countries.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Friday, September 16, 2016
It's Time: Broad Progressive Coalition Launches New Push for Public Option | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
It's Time: Broad Progressive Coalition Launches New Push for Public Option | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Join us on September 19 at the Southdale Library at 6:00 PM for a presentation on Minnesota progress toward Affordable Health Care for All. Joan and Steve Januzs will explain about Single Payer, Universal health care, legislative issues, and what is happening with this important issue in out State.
Join us on September 19 at the Southdale Library at 6:00 PM for a presentation on Minnesota progress toward Affordable Health Care for All. Joan and Steve Januzs will explain about Single Payer, Universal health care, legislative issues, and what is happening with this important issue in out State.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Lower-income workers get less health care with HSA-eligible health plans
EBRI_IB_425.Aug16.HSAs.pdf
Comment by Don McCanne
Yes, this is yet another report that confirms that enrolling in HSA-eligible
high-deductible health plans is associated with a decline in physician
visits and in high-value preventive services. This negative impact
occurs across all income levels but is twice as great amongst
lower-income individuals than it is for those with higher incomes.
high-deductible health plans is associated with a decline in physician
visits and in high-value preventive services. This negative impact
occurs across all income levels but is twice as great amongst
lower-income individuals than it is for those with higher incomes.
Yet we continue to see a significant increase in enrollment in
high-deductible plans whether or not they are associated with a health
savings account. Slowing health care spending by reducing the use of
beneficial health care services is not the type of health care policy we
should be supporting.
high-deductible plans whether or not they are associated with a health
savings account. Slowing health care spending by reducing the use of
beneficial health care services is not the type of health care policy we
should be supporting.
Our current policies are creating more financial barriers to care; they are reducing our choices
in our health care professionals; they are increasing administrative
waste, and they have have inflamed an epidemic of physician burnout.
Yet we continue to let the medical-industrial wonks lead us down this path
to the everlasting bonfire.
in our health care professionals; they are increasing administrative
waste, and they have have inflamed an epidemic of physician burnout.
Yet we continue to let the medical-industrial wonks lead us down this path
to the everlasting bonfire.
Hey, aren’t we wonks too? We know a far better path - one that leads to health care nirvana. Why aren’t we doing the leading?
Friday, September 9, 2016
Monday, September 5, 2016
Public money accounts for more than two-thirds of health care spending in California
Search Press Releases | UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Comment by Don McCanne
Over two-thirds of
health care in California - 71 percent - is paid for by the government,
using our taxes. That is even greater than the national taxpayer share
of health care - 64 percent (increasing to 67 percent in 2024) - as
demonstrated by Himmelstein and Woolhandler.
health care in California - 71 percent - is paid for by the government,
using our taxes. That is even greater than the national taxpayer share
of health care - 64 percent (increasing to 67 percent in 2024) - as
demonstrated by Himmelstein and Woolhandler.
As
Himmelstein and Woolhandler have stated previously, U.S. taxpayers are
already paying for a national health program, but not getting it. And
that is even more true for Californians.
Himmelstein and Woolhandler have stated previously, U.S. taxpayers are
already paying for a national health program, but not getting it. And
that is even more true for Californians.
California
has previously made efforts to adopt a single payer program, but they
have failed - in the election booth, in the state legislature, and on
the governor’s desk. As we continue to shift more of health care costs
to the government, we have brought along our terribly wasteful,
fragmented health care financing system. The California taxpayers are
getting a bad deal, and a very expensive one at that ($261 billion for
2016 in public spending alone).
has previously made efforts to adopt a single payer program, but they
have failed - in the election booth, in the state legislature, and on
the governor’s desk. As we continue to shift more of health care costs
to the government, we have brought along our terribly wasteful,
fragmented health care financing system. The California taxpayers are
getting a bad deal, and a very expensive one at that ($261 billion for
2016 in public spending alone).
Without
enabling federal legislation, states are limited in how close they can
come to a much more efficient single payer system, but that does not
mean that we should not proceed with whatever is possible now.
enabling federal legislation, states are limited in how close they can
come to a much more efficient single payer system, but that does not
mean that we should not proceed with whatever is possible now.
California,
and every other state for that matter, should do two things
simultaneously: 1) Advocate vigorously for a national single payer
program - an improved Medicare for all, and 2) Move forward on a state
level with improving the health care financing system so that eventual
transition to a national program will be that much simpler, not to
mention providing some limited interim relief.
and every other state for that matter, should do two things
simultaneously: 1) Advocate vigorously for a national single payer
program - an improved Medicare for all, and 2) Move forward on a state
level with improving the health care financing system so that eventual
transition to a national program will be that much simpler, not to
mention providing some limited interim relief.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Minnesota health insurers propose big premium hikes for individual plans | Star Tribune
Minnesota health insurers propose big premium hikes for individual plans | Star Tribune
Get ready for those rate hikes! Remember that the largest single cost in
health care is the bureaucracy, not doctors, nurses, and the service
you get and that you deserve. Single Payer will take care of that. It
will cut the insurance companies and fat CEO's out of the loop and put
your doctor in control of your own health again at an affordable cost.
Let's go for it!
Get ready for those rate hikes! Remember that the largest single cost in
health care is the bureaucracy, not doctors, nurses, and the service
you get and that you deserve. Single Payer will take care of that. It
will cut the insurance companies and fat CEO's out of the loop and put
your doctor in control of your own health again at an affordable cost.
Let's go for it!
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)