Private medical insurance coverage

09 Aug

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Affordable Health Insurance Options in Ohio: An Interview With …
The state’s plan dictates that businesses with more than ten employees that do not provide health insurance coverage will be charged a fee of as much as $295 a year for each employee. Government subsidies to private insurance plans will … read more…

The Column, Reloaded: Will Obamacare dilute your health coverage?
But the announcement came with a mail-in card giving me the ability to opt out of my coverage before the changes kick in. This makes me wonder about the future of — not just my own, but most private health insurance plans. … read more…

Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine. … Between 2000 and 2005, the number of Americans with private health insurance coverage fell by 1 percent. But over the same period, employment at health insurance companies rose a remarkable 32 percent. … read more…

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TexHealth Central Texas endangering Texans with their new Health Plan.
Saturday marks the launch of TexHealth Central Texas, a new health benefits plan that aims to cover 2,500 workers in Travis, Hays and Williamson counties in the next three years.The employee and the e… read more…

California Drug Rehab and Addiction Treatment Programs
Drug rehabilitation programs in the state of California come in many different forms. Some drug rehab programs outsource the detoxification portion of the treatment while others provide a comprehensiv… read more…

Group Health Insurance – Keep the flock under cover
There is some reason why people say birds of a feather flock together. It is like an extended familial tribe. When you are working together as a team, efforts to have a group health insurance cover is… read more…

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Open Question: Palin’s response to Obama’s health care?
Palin says Obama’s health care plan is ‘evil’
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

“Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.

The allegation appears to be based on a provision of the House bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling sessions, on a voluntary basis, for beneficiaries who want the service. Medicare already covers hospice care. And legislation passed by Congress in 1990 requires that patients be asked if they have a living will.

Obama addressed the controversy during a July 28 AARP-sponsored town hall.

“Nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington,” he said.

An e-mail sent to Palin’s spokeswoman to confirm authorship of the Facebook posting was not immediately returned Friday. There was no immediate reply to phone messages left late Friday with the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office seeking comment on Palin’s remarks.

Republican criticism has also included claims that the reform plans will lead to rationing, or the government determining which medical procedures a patient can have.

However, millions of Americans already face rationing, as insurance companies rule on procedures they will cover. Denying coverage for certain procedures might increase under proposals to have a government-appointed agency identify medicines and procedures best suited for various conditions.

Palin resigned as Alaska governor on July 26 with nearly 18 months left in her term. She cited not only the numerous ethics complaints that had been filed against her also her wish not to be a lame duck after the first-term governor decided not to seek re-election next year.

Palin, popular with conservatives in the Republican party, has said she wants to build a right-of-center coalition, and there is speculation she will seek the presidency in 2012. In the two weeks since she resigned, Palin has made only one public appearance, giving a Second Amendment rights speech last Saturday before a gun owners group in Anchorage.

Palin or her aides post notes on her Facebook account about once or twice a week, usually to set out policy statements, issue news releases or refute rumors circulating on the Internet.

Palin also has been largely silent before Friday’s Facebook post. She was a voracious user of the social networking site Twitter, and promised to keep her supporters updated with a new private account after she left office. But that hasn’t happened, leaving some of her fans begging for updates in the past two weeks

Open Question: Is anyone bothered at all by these statistics? Do we really have?
the best health care system? PLEASE just read through and tell me that something is really wrong when the greatest country in the world stacks up to other countries in the way we do.

Reports & statistics from the OECD:

• Half of all bankruptcies IN THE US are caused by medical bills
• Three-quarters of those filings are by people with health insurance.
• The average overhead cost for U.S. private health insurers is 11.7%; for Medicare, it is 3.6%; for Canada’s national health insurance program, it is 1.3 %
• A baby born in El Salvador has a better chance of surviving than a baby in Detroit.
• The infant mortality rate in Detroit is 15.5, compared to El Salvador’s rate of 9.7.12
• Over the next decade, the US federal government will give the drug & health care industries an estimated $822 billion as a result of the 2003 Medicare Part D (Medicare prescription drug plan).
• There are four times as many health care lobbyists in Washington as there are members of Congress
• There are 100 times more lobbyists of all stripes in Washington today than there were during the Reagan presidency.
• 90% of Americans believe the American health care system needs fundamental changes or needs to be completely rebuilt. 75% of Americans believe the federal government should guarantee universal health care for all citizens.
Life expectancy

1. San Marino …….. 80
2. Australia ……….. 79
3. Cyprus …………. 79
4. Iceland…………. 79
5. Israel……………. 79
6. Japan………….. 79
7. Sweden………… 79
8. Switzerland…… 79
9. Andorra………… 78
10. Canada…………. 78
11. Italy……………… 78
12. Monaco……….. 78
13. Netherlands…. 78
14. New Zealand .. 78
15. Norway………… 78
US 38th on list

LOWEST INFANT MORTALITY (RATE per THOUSAND BIRTHS)

1. Singapore….. 2.31
2. Bermuda…… 2.46
3. Sweden……… 2.75
4. Japan………… 2.79
5. Iceland…….. 3.23
6. France ………. 3.33
7. Finland……. 3.47
8. Anguilla…… 3.52
9. Norway…….. 3.58
10. Malta……….. 3.75
11. Andorra…… 3.76
12. Czech Republic … 3.79
13. Germany……… 3.99
14. Switzerland….. 4.18
15. Spain ………….. 4.21

2007- United States Infant Mortality Rate Average = 6.37 Deaths per 1000 Live Births

One of the worst, AFGHANISTAN, is at 152 deaths per 1000…..

TOP FIVE – CHILD DEATHS – DUE TO MALTREATMENT SOURCE – UNICEF

1. Mexico: …………. 2.2 per 100,000 children
2. United States:.. 2.2 per 100,000 children
3. Hungary:……….. 1.2 per 100,000 children
4. New Zealand:… 1.2 per 100,000 children
5. Austria: …………. 0.9 per 100,000 children

TOP FIVE — CHILD POVERTY – SOURCE: UNICEF

# 1. Mexico:……… 26.2
# 2. United States:.. 22.4
# 3. Italy:…………… 20.5
# 4. United Kingdom:. 19.8
# 5. Turkey:……….. 19.7

2008 – FORBES – TOP TEN – OVERALL HEALTHIEST COUNTRIES

1. ICELAND
2. SWEDEN
3. FINLAND
4. GERMANY
5. SWITZERLAND
6. AUSTRALIA
7. DENMARK
8. CANADA
9. AUSTRIA
10. NETHERLANDS

** USA was #11!

Among the OECD’s 30 members – (which include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) – there are only 3 members lacking universal health coverage[. Two of them, Mexico and Turkey, have the excuse of being poorer than the rest (and until the onset of the world economic crisis, Mexico was on the way to providing healthcare to all of its citizens).

The third, of course, is the United States.
Maxwell, that’s too bad. The stats are NOT mine. They are from the OECD. So you think they just make up numbers that are not true? That’s about as logical as the birther movement.