How to solve the healthcare crisis?
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The US spends twice per capita what other industrialized countries do and yet only we do not cover all our people.  When we decide we want to get real value for our money we can get care for all Americans and resolve other aspects of the present crisis.\n\nHealth care should be like public education (K-12) a right enjoyed by all Americans.
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Yes we are in a crises! And if something is not done it is only going to get worse. I don't know exactly what needs to be done but Americans need to make a stand against this and say enough is enough. It is all over the news, on the net, talk shows and so on. That suggests to me that something is wrong. I don't know what Americans are going to do. The price of everything has went up and continues to go up. And we are not getting any cost of living increases either. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. And no help from the government because they are some of those getting richer over the oil. When Exxon goes above Wal-mart we have a problem.
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Can you phrase your question a little more clearly please...;\n\nEDIT\nSmall countries would not generally have a problem with healthcare as long as they have to money to fund it.  The problems arise when a country has not got the finances.  Some small countries such as Switzerland and Monaco have first class, world renowned services, well funded and with top class doctors and surgeons.  \nIm still not really sure if I have helped but I hope I have
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What will it take?\n\nIMO, it'll take getting big business and corporations out of health care!  Their focus is on the bottom line.  They're plenty happy to see us all stick our fingers, tummies, and whatever, and swallow enough pills to choke a horse FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES, because then they get more money!\n\nMy diabetes educator was at a conference and was seated at a table with several research folks.  She asked them whether a cure was actually close, due to all the reports in the media.  They said, "Nope."\n\nSad but true...
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Get a new doctor.\n\nCoach
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Line up the poor and frail elderly.  Draw bullseyes on them.  Fire!! \nSorry for the lash out, I work for a medicare HMO and am feeling sick at the cuts
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try like a primacare or something like that\none of those emergency but not an emergency enough to go to the hospital places
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Recommend that you contact your Congressman and local news station.  You might get the story to go to the national news.  See if you can reach Fox News (www.foxnews.com) so they can bring national attention to your problem.  A trust fund to help with current and future medical costs may be in your future.\n\nAnother course of action is to get in touch with the minuteman project to become the face of their effort.  Americans need to know that good people are getting hurt.\n\nGood luck.
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Your link looks like a pension question, but you are using it for national health care purposes??? Would you rather ask about Social Security to make it more relevant?\n\nYou can get more information about this issue and analysis of the health-care problem from all the angles at the link below.\n\nLaissez-faire health-care economics makes no sense. Markets are good for some things, bad for much and  immoral for health-care. Markets can function efficiently if people have choices. There is no choice in your health-care requirements. If you have congestive heart failure, you can't say to yourself, "Ah, I don't need the attention of a thoracic surgeon this week, I'll put it off until next week."\nOr, "I don't have any need for cancer right now, I'll take indigestion instead."\n\nTherefore, a market solution will only distribute our health resources inefficiently and inequitably. Rich hypochondriacs get all the care they "need" while poor folks with bad hearts let their conditions deteriorate until they need the most expensive care available.\n\nOur high malpractice problems and claims are a direct result of having no national health insurance. When those poor folks who can't afford health-care finally are faced with a heart attack or some other acute episode, they head to the hospital to a doctor they've most likely never seen with no medical records to speak of. The doctors are "flying blind" trying to save the patients not knowing the full array of ailments, allergies, etc they might have.
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Repuglican idea: screw you get your own. \nDemocrat idea: national health care set up on the order of Canada or England.
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IMO the only real solutions are either:\n\na) get out now because we don't seem to be accomplishing anything\n\nb) bite the bullet and increase troop levels dramatically (3-4X the current amount)\n\n\nand the term "cut and run" is idiotic, the only purpose it serves is limiting the options for people to contemplate\n\n\n\nfor those of you that say "cut and run" would be disasterous, what's the point? Iraq is already a disaster, you are going to have to either fix the problem by sending in a much larger number of troops or get out, keeping things as they are is ALREADY disasterous
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We need a health care system in this country and it will be hard to get. You know who is in congress. pro business!\n\nWe need a way to pool the Monet, an have some say into some things, like costs!\n\nHMO's who have people who are paid over 2 million a year plus bonus, plus their stockholders. They are taking all that from you before they have paid a thing!! There are over 450 HMO's in NJ!\n\nWhen I retired from the state, all of a sudden the HMO who represents retired state workers can get pills that I was paying over $12.00 each, I can get a 3 month supply for $4.00! That's right! $4.00 for three months!\n\nMedications is too expensive and needs to be brought under control. I don't have an issue with someone making a profit, but a 14 Million dollar income for 1 person in an HMO? That is obscene, and they have at least 3 more making more than 2 million a year. Now multiply that by the # of HMO's and the money they return to their shareholders, who didn't work a damn day!. That's a lot of money that goes to everything but health care.\n\nI have a ton of those example's, and I am sure we have enough smart people, who are not politicians, who can come up with a health care plan. What do you think an HMO is?
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I am not exactly sure what you are asking, as that isn't a full sentence--but I will try to give some input.  \n\nJust the other day on the news they were discussing the current crisis in the medical field because of the drastic shortage of Nurses.  One hospital personnel director said she could easily hire 100 nurses for their hospital alone, because they were so short.  Nurses are feeling the strain of this by having to cover more patients then what they should.  This passes a danger on to the patients that they are not getting the full attention that they should.\n\nFurther complicating this situation is that there aren't enough Professors of Nursing available, because the colleges cannot pay comparable wages to what the hospitals supposedly can--to be able to teach the number of students wanting to go to Nursing School. It is a terrible situation and with the impending threat of Bird Flu, I fear that the medical world is going to be knocked on it's bottom.  I only wish I could have finished my BSN.  Hope that helps with what you were asking.  GL
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Consult with a doctor.
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let the people decide\n\nim worried now.
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health care\n homelessness\nstate services
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I would try to make peace and stay out of other countries business unless they make war with us first.  I would fix health care, I would create a more even system so the rich would not rule everything, we have disabled people here in America that can't even afford there medicine. Here in Missouri, Governor Matt Blunt took medicaid away from many disabled, and had at least 175,000,000 that he didn't know what to do with and still wouldn't reinstate the medicaid to the elderly and disabled. I would at least have a concious.