February 14, 2010
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and What’s the difference between healthcare reform and universal healthcare?
8 Comments
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Sunday 14 February 2010 - 10:49 pm
Universal healthcare is forcing people to pay for others who do not care about their health.
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Sunday 14 February 2010 - 11:31 pm
Healthcare is treatment by a doctor. Health insurance is a benefit that enables someone to pay for heath treatment without out of pocket expenses or very high out of pocket expenses.
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Sunday 14 February 2010 - 11:50 pm
Health care is actually receiving services, treatments and medication.
Health insurance is getting a third party to pay for part or all of health care you receive.
Today, many Americans don’t get health care because they… god forbid.. would have to actually pay for a product or service they asked for.
Under Universal Healthcare… People would all have health insurance and services would be cheap, but there would likely be serious shortages and some government agency would be there to tell you what care you can and can’t have.
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Monday 15 February 2010 - 12:24 am
Health care is the actual supplying of medical treatment to patients–tests, diagnoses, prescriptions, nursing care, and so forth.
Health insurance is a means of paying for it over time–we pay into a fund even while we are well so that when we get sick there is money to pay for our care.
The difference between national health insurance and private health insurance is that the private insurer’s primary goal is to deliver a dividend check to its shareholders, whereas the national insurer is interested in a healthier and more productive population.
Private insurers deliver about 65 cents of care per dollar collected in premiums; national insurers closer to 95 cents per dollar.
Health care reform means changing the inefficient system we currently have–universal healthcare (everybody has national insurance) is one method that many countries have chosen to keep their people healthy and competitive.
The only two industrial countries without national health care are the USA and South Africa. The US spends nearly twice as much per capita as the citizens of any other nation, and our medical outcomes are 37th best in the world.
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Monday 15 February 2010 - 1:06 am
First of all, Obama is not going to bring in universal healthcare, a fact that many people (including those who voted for him) seem not to realise. He wants to make insurance more available to all.
Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well.
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet.
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage.
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.
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Monday 15 February 2010 - 1:46 am
WAKE UP AMERICA IF YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE OR NOT, AND/OR GO TO THE DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT PAY BECAUSE OF NO INSURANCE AND NO MONEY!!!
When a person shoplifts the loss has to be paid by someone, usually the consumer.
When a person receives medical care it has to be paid for also therefore those that do pay pay for all.
WE NEED TO FIX HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY
The thing is do we want those that can’t pay themselves to have the government pay so that the doctors, the hospitals, and insurance cost don’t go up. or do you want to keep paying the for profit insurance co for the uninsured.
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One costs a lot less and treats people who can’t afford it.