Healthcare Reform in a Depressed Economy, Al Franken and Norm Coleman May Have to Flip a Coin, Chris Matthews

Nice Try Jeff But Americans Are Morons

Jeff,

Your idea is correct --- focus on preventative care to minimize the cost of treatment. Unfortunately, Americans are too stupid to follow that route. They're also too stupid to figure out what they can do to minimize their own costs.

How many fat, obese whales do you see everyday? Every jumbotron represents a bottomless pit of medical costs, but do you see anyone trying to lose weight?

How bout smokers, drinkers, and drug users? People live to be self-destructive, and each of these people hike the cost of medical care for everyone else just like the fatties. They don't give a sh!t about anything but getting high or getting drunk.

You want affordable healthcare, start with these turds. Make them choose healthier lifestyles or continue to with a system where healthcare is ill-affordable.

Healthcare Reform in a Depressed Economy

I don't think we can wait any longer to tackle healthcare reform in this country. With 50% of the population either uninsured or underinsured the "indusry" is now inaccessible due to high costs. Which means higher costs down the road as more people get sick and require hospitalization. A lot of money and lives can be saved if we paid more attention to preventive care. Preventive care is cheap and actually promotes good healthcare, rather than the system we have now which is "disease" care. With an emphasis on prevention, we can make a dent into the number of people suffering from chronic diseases which accounts for 25% of our healthcare costs ($500,000) and have a healthier population. Say what you want about Europe and Canada's "socialized" medicine-their healthcare system is much better and cheaper than ours (they actually get the care that is recommended compared to this country which provides only 50% of recommended care). I suppose it all boils down to the medical industrial complex which has to account to stock holders and not patients. The free market doesn't work in medicine because true competition to lower prices only occurs when consumers are educated about the product they're obtaining so they know where to get the best treatment. If you don't have a degree in the health arena it is difficult to make that choice-its not like buying a TV at Best Buy. for more discussion on this and other topics, please visit, www.takingcontrolofyourhealthcare.com.

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