By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
In a despicable attempt to scare the elderly, the Republican National Committee is out Monday with its plan to "protect" seniors from health care reform.
The GOP pushes all the hot buttons for critics of President Barack Obama's plans.
The Republican proposal is a charade, meant to make seniors think their health care is under assault from proposed changes.
It's not true.
Yet Republican National Committee Committee Chairman Michael Steele wrote today that his group supports what it calls a Seniors' Health Care Bill of Rights.
Steele says Medicare has to be protected from major cuts in care for seniors -- something that's not contemplated by any proposed plan by the Democrats.
Steele wants to preserve the close relationships many seniors have with their doctors -- which also isn't affected by reform.
Steele calls for a ban on rationing of care when it comes to end-of-life decisions -- which, again, is a scare story being spread by Republicans and not part of major health care bill.
Finally, Steele calls on Obama to embrace bipartisanship and join with Republicans on health care changes that make sense. As if the GOP is really interested in working with the president or Democrats in changing the costly and ineffective status quo.
The GOP is continuing its attempt to whip people up into a frenzy, and its latest attempts to scare seniors is particularly off target.









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6 Main Lies Have Nothing To Do With This Promising Reform.
Theme : 6 Main Lies Have Nothing To Do With This Promising Reform.
1. The contents of savings (below) in this reform 'have nothing to do with' limit to medical access, rationing, tax raise, and deficit etc.
Rather, without wiping out these wastes and roots of bankruptcy for middle class, all fronts are sure to face larger financial ruin than this recession, which leads to more limit to medical access, more rationing, more tax raise, and more deficit etc than today.
$1.042trillion (cost of reform) + $245bn (cost to reflect annual pay raise of docs) = $1.287bn (actual cost of reform).
$583bn (the revenue package) + $80bn (so-called doughnut hole) + $155bn (savings from hospitals) + $167bn (ending the unnecessary subsidies for insurers) + 129bn(mandate-related fine based on shared responsibility) + $277bn (ending medical fraud, a minimum of 3% , the combined Medicare and Medicaid cost of $923.5bn per year, as of July,) = $1.391trillion + the reduced cost of ER visits (Medicare covers some 40% of the total) + the tax code on the wealthiest more reduced than originally proposed = why not ? (except for a magic pill, an outcome-based payment reform & IT effects and so forth).
Unlike high fuel price and mortgage rate in recent years as the roots of great recession and bankruptcy of middle class, the severity in the high cost of health premiums has come to light lately. Similarly, in an attempt to hide these deficit-driven corruptions and wastes, the greed allies struggle to turn the savings via removing these wastes into limit to medical access, rationing, tax raise, and deficit etc.
In contrast, not to mention a wide range of consumer protection, options across state lines, this promising reform takes initiatives in more primary care docs and improved long-term care. Unnecessarily, hope should not be replaced with all forms of malign lies, fear, just like people don't have to fear quitting drug.
2. Greedy insurers with no competitors by consolidation have nothing to do with the law of price, demand & supply.
Under the free market theory and the premise that the public health is also one of commodity like a house, if the demand decreases on a large scale, accordingly the price tends to reflect it, as in the case of house price, and it never happens for the price to spiral up. One step forward, in case the price is spiraling up, to be sure, the remaining clients should withdraw the contract or choose the other options. In practice, runaway premiums with no competitors by consolidation drive the enrollees out, and 4C + 2R (canceling, capping, cherry-picking, cash for special lobby, rationing, rapid premium hike) guarantee multiple times as much profit. Sadly, no way-out other than the prohibitive ER is allowed in America. Therefore, the victims today and tomorrow deserve long overdue protection from non-profit Government.
3. The plans to stem inflation in the House have nothing to do with crowd-out.
With the heartbreaking tears in mind (Nearly 11 Million Cancer Patients Without Health Insurance), private market also needs changes and should join together to complete this reform , as promised, otherwise, the runaway premium only has itself to blame while new firms are filling the void with competitive deals.
And It can be said that fair competition starts with a fair, sustainable market value.
However, the plan in the House is designed to keep people in an employer-based health insurance system, and the public option would be offered to those for whom employer-provided insurance is not available. And job-based coverage (indirect payment), some mandate code, ample capital, the reduced exorbitant ER costs, IT base to streamline the administrative processes and trim the costs might be favorable to the private market. Over time, supposedly, the public plan will concentrate more on basic, primary cares, and the private insurers will provide their clients with differentiated services. Focus should be on the uninsured, the underinsured.
In an attempt to avert innovation, moderation, and social responsibility, accusing essential affordability, citing take-over, will be a dirty play.
-- Except For The Underinsured, The Uninsured Alone Outnumber The Entire Population In Canada --
4. Profit-driven markets have nothing to do with affordable, sustainable public health.
When the public health is also one of commodity like a house, we come to a tragic and unthinkable conclusion : As to for-profit business, the more and longer ill patients get, the more profits they make, and it will debilitate the overall economy involving education for the future (roughly 40% of the uninsured, around 20million of young adults).
Under the most wasteful structure on the planet like no coordinated preventive care program waiting until people get ill, about 50% of idle world's best practices, a pay for each and every service reimbursement and frequent readmissions, no e-medical record and deaths, crushing litigations and the more profits via the unnecessary, risk-carrying procedures, and the most inefficient paper billing systems imaginable, overpriced pharmaceuticals, bloated insurance companies, incredible medial fraud, exorbitant costs by the tragic ER visits etc, it might be no wonder with the comprehensive, systematic reform in the pipeline, just one attitude of patient-oriented value in 10 regions has attained 16% of savings in Medicare while their quality scores are well above average.
Aside from the already allocated $583 billion and the savings of this reform package, 16% of $923.5bn (the combined Medicare and Medicaid cost per year, as of July) is around $147.76bn per year and 1.4776trillion over the next decade, and this patient-oriented value alone could be enough to meet the goal.
Please be 'sure' to visit http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/opinion/13gawande.html?hp for credible evidences !
Today, another innovative, fundamental change in payment system, or patient's outcome based payment reform that is able to turn the profit-oriented malpractices and volume into the patient-oriented value and quality is waiting for a final decision.
5. Inflation-driven greedy allies backed by the insurers have nothing to do with deficit-neutral.
When some part of our body is ailing seriously, we are going to lose competitiveness, equally, when some part of a nation is ailing servery, it is going to loose competitiveness, too. In case somebody in the house gets ill, health will be put over house, in practice.
6. The analyses of CBO have nothing to do with common sense and practice.
Costs of Preventable Chronic Disease account for more than 75% of the nation’s $2.4 trillion medical care costs. U.S. health care spending is also expected to double in the next 10 years. and they are largely preventable -- 80 percent of the risk factors are behavior-related.
Unlike the analyses of CBO, world-wide outstanding public programs put heavier emphasis on preventive program equally, and preventable swine flu pandemic is expected to cost about $2trillion dollars world-wide for the lack of prepared vaccines. (Genes included in the new swine flu have been circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade, according to a team led by Rebecca Garten of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who have sequenced the genomes of more than 50 samples of the virus).
If CBO asks the profit-driven interests about why they have hindered the budget request for preventive program in Medicare and Medicaid, they will say, " just look at the health Catrina special lobbying has made, we are professional, and we are now obstructing this reform, too " .
7. Conclusion : The public health is a fundamental human right.
As I said previously, patient-oriented value alone could be enough to meet the goal, and another innovative, fundamental change in payment system, or patient's outcome based payment reform that is able to turn the profit-oriented malpractices and volume into the patient-oriented value and quality is waiting for a final decision.
If At least, some media pay attention to this flower of reform, people will feel empty as the past and current discussion has been time-consuming for sure.
Thank You !
Win-Win Scenario For The Elderly
One other thing crossed my mind when considering the subject of this article...
What do the elderly have to lose?
or
Either way, the end result has seniors insured, so why are the Republicans trying to court them, and in essence, the largest lobbying group for a single interest, other than to try and spread the appearance that they are the party to trust in.
more misinformation...
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There will not be real competition with the government plan, since the government can tax/borrow to oblivion. Insurance companies cannot do that, which is why they will either, 1) go bankrupt or 2) jump out of the business, and in either case, that will leave only one option - you guessed it!
While this is a nice doomsday scenario, the fact is that there are plenty of countries where private insurance companies hold their own against a public option. Japan has one of the best public health care systems in the world and yet private insurance is still thriving over there.
Please cite some reliable sources (IE not just anecdotes about having to wait 8 mo for care in Canada) supporting the phase in italics because everything I've seen says the opposite. Countries with strong public health care options usually score much higher than the US in international rankings.
charades and more charades
Besides the fact that the Seniors’ Health Care Bill Of Rights is a GOP bill, what exactly do you take issue with about it?
According to your article the Seniors’ Health Care Bill Of Rights does not conflict with health care reform, so why be against it.
It sounds as much that your article is using the issue to attack the GOP rather then point out that the Democrats and Republicans apparently agree on this.
The Seniors’ Health Care Bill Of Rights sounds like a great idea, that both parties agree on. Then support it.
COUNTRY TOO POLARIZED - WILL NOT HELP THE GOP
P.S.S.
The country is getting mighty polarized between:
LEFT:
1) educated and professional people,
2) people without money who want what others have, and
3) people with money who tend to care about people other than themselves.
RIGHT:
1) people with blue collar jobs and little education, and
2) people with money who tend NOT to care about people other than themselves.
The Right likes to blame a lot of our country's problems on the group, "people without money who want what others have." However, this makes no sense because, in this day and age, this is a small group that tends not to vote much.
The Left likes to blame many things on 'people with money who tend NOT to care about people other than themselves' for causing every problem in the world, but this makes no sense because this is also a very small group of people without much individual voting power.
Therefore, what we really have in this country is a very weird battle amongst groups of people who seem to each be fighting against their own self interest.
On the Left, you have educated professionals that tend to support social programs they themselves don't need that are funded with money that, for the most part, is coming out of their own pockets (because they pay the most in taxes).
On the Right, you have uneducated blue-collar workers that fight against: 1) social programs that they would probably be able to take advantage of, 2) protectionist policies led by union-supported politicians (all Democrats) that might keep some decent paying blue collar jobs in the U.S. and 3) tax increases that affect only people considerably wealthier than themselves.
My theory on how is this accomplished on the Right. The group, "people with money who tend NOT to care about people other than themselves," uses religious and social "wedge" issues. The strategists and politicians on the Right (most of whom work for the group, "people with money who tend NOT to care about people other than themselves") merely associate their opponents with everything an uneducated, unsophisticated person would find offensive (gays, atheism, socialism, gun control, etcetera).
It's not difficult to surmise the long term fallout of the "wedge" issue strategy for the GOP: 1) eventually, they'll run out of groups of people that are "acceptable" to vilify and 2) as a result of losing the support of the members of the groups they target, their numbers will dwindle. This is why the GOP is becoming increasingly racist (minorities are one the last groups left to attack) and will keep losing more and more elections for the foreseeable future.
yessireeeee....
I sure want our healthcare system to model the VA....
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9D8SG0&show_article=1
Hopefully Obama care will pass
Then you can get the psychiatric help you so desperately need!
Have any liberals considered
Have any liberals considered the possibility that bad as our health care system is, it is the best of many worse options? Analysis of countries where the health care system has a public option reveals many problems with the health care system. That, in essence is why the public and Republicans are opposing this reform. The question is whether the problems with socialized medicine out way the problems with our current system. The fact remains that socialized medicine is more expensive than our current system, at least from a budgetary standpoint. So why now? We have already have record deficits, why make a bad problem worse? Check out this debate blog: http://www.healthcaredebateblog.com/
jme
How many times do you have to hear it/read it to understand:
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There will not be real competition with the government plan, since the government can tax/borrow to oblivion. Insurance companies cannot do that, which is why they will either, 1) go bankrupt or 2) jump out of the business, and in either case, that will leave only one option - you guessed it!