Hot Docs: Healthcare Costs Put U.S. Workers and Companies at Global Disadvantage

Healthcare Reform

Healthcare reforms requiring the purchase of insurance, and using existing cost bloated delivery systems are not addressing real world problems for users.

Health insurers, HMOs, for profit health care providers, health care regulators and legislators have destroyed the utility of our current health delivery systems for many Americans, just as Wall Street and Washington have destroyed our financial system.

“You talk about waiting for the economy to straighten out before dealing with health care. Health care is one of the main things destroying the economy!” comments ren in a New York Times blog on March 5, 2009 that sums up overwhelming citizen sentiment. .http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/white-house-health-care-summit/?apage=3#comments

A healthcare system is needed that provides users with the option of selecting free government owned and operated National Healthcare, based on the Veteran Administration model, that provides qualified Veterans with totally free care for all prescribed treatments and medications, totally transferable, with no precondition restrictions.

Government operating a National Healthcare Service based on the Veterans Administration model could deliver healthcare, to Americans choosing to use it, at a fraction of the cost per patient compared to existing systems.

The bottom line is every American, choosing National Healthcare, would then be cared for, free. No more insurance needed period.

Largest cost factor in Medicare: kidney dialysis

and it's growing year by year according to recent legislation. The solution was proposed back in 2002 by Dr. David Moskowitz of public health biotech GenoMed, Inc. (www.thelatestmedicaltreatment.com) and blatantly ignored by the National Institutes of Health and it's director, Dr. Agodoa. Big pharma makes big bucks from our bloated health care system and people with solution are being turned a deaf ear. Now is the time to transform our health care system into a vital, productive and cost effective system. Let's start by listening to people like Dr. Moskowitz who have viable alternative for 90% of type ii diabetes patients than to waste away within 3 years of starting treatment at the tune of $35 billion per year.

Medicare for All

In my thirty years of nursing, the biggest change has been from a non-profit community based health care system to a for-profit private based system. There are now more people sitting in the back office managing health care than out front providing the care. The result is American health care costs double and insures fewer. We now pay more to promote individual plans, products and medicines, sponsor lobbyists, review and deny claims, and pay multi-million dollars salaries, than we pay for providing health care. The result is an unaffordable, broken system. We need a single payer, Medicare for all plan, which would reduce all the promotional costs.