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Healthcare: Japanese Style
MartiniLush had asked me about healthcare in Japan and I never got the chance to give a more detail overview. I was skimming the news just now and I saw that NYT had a pretty good article on it so I thought I shared. Health Care Abroad: Japan By Sarah Arnquist John Creighton Campbell is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan and a visiting researcher at the Tokyo University Institute of Gerontology. He co-authored “The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan’s Low-Cost, Egalitarian System” (Cambridge University Press, 1998).McCain on Healthcare
If you have not seen or heard his plan... here is the gist of it. The whole Tax Credit idea is something of great interest, and the idea of insurance companies fighting for the consumers as well.America's great healthcare debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8167671.stm By Kevin Connolly BBC News, Chicago When a political topic is hot in America it dominates the cable chatter on 24-hour TV channels. When it's REALLY hot, it dominates the advert breaks too - and no topic is hotter than health care. Rival lobbying organisations are spending millions of dollars on airtime - offering startlingly different diagnoses of what is wrong with the American healthcare system, and different prescriptions for treating it.ObamaCare Healthcare Reform Act. Action Needed Now!
I get emails from an organization called Minnesota Majority. This "action alert" is to important to keep to myself. I couldn't grab the picture they had in the email that shows the layers of beaurocracy they expect to see ObamaCare Healthcare Reform bill gets through.Its not healthcare...it is a political problem.
Friday, August 28, 2009A blog by Daniel Shaviro ............................http://danshaviro.blogspot.com/
Krugman comes around?
In reading Paul Krugman, it's important to resist Broderism, or centrism for its own sake. For example, his saying harsh things about the Republicans, or arguing that the stimulus package needs to be much bigger than the political consensus has it, sound "extreme" in the standard Washington framework, but ought to be evaluated straight on the merits, where they often prove more convincing than the "reasonable" competition.
Obamacare...a personal look.
I am going to give you my personal look at Obamacare from a perspective which may seem a bit strange but in reality it should be alarming. The interesting thing is that most of all of my childhood I went without even some of the basic things people assume most everyone has. The only healthcare I had as a child was Medi-cal...which is the program upon which Obamacare was designed.
My father worked several part-time jobs as well as his full-time job as a Baptist minister. He did everything possible to provide for us, worked his fingers to the bone and still managed to comfort the people in our church and help them deal with their own problems. Not once did any congregation we served bother to possibly consider that making sure the minister and his family had any healthcare or even some of the basic necessities in life was one of their priorities. They did however call at any time of the day or night for his help and he was there for them.
Sometimes our whole family was there for them. I was a very experienced babysitter, cook, and housekeeper before I was even 11. This is not bitterness I speak from---it is my attempt at revealing to you that many who are among the uninsured are hardworking people often working in service-oriented positions which simply aren't offered healthcare.
So....let me get back to Medi-cal......the mentor of Obamacare. When I hear people on the Obamacare bandwagon I think they probably don't really understand what they are supporting. Many have never been on medi-cal.
The AMA on Healthcare...
The American Medical Association has weighed in on the new proposed HealthCare package.... The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.For those concerned about the cost of current healthcare plans being considered
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/obamas-health-care-news-conference/ This article from factcheck.org shows several places where the President has misrepresented the facts. Summary President Obama tried to sell his health care overhaul in prime time, mangling some facts in the process. He also strained to make the job sound easier to pay for than experts predict.Promises, Promises: Indian healthcare needs unmet
Just remember ladies and gents, this below is what our government wants to give us in the way of healthcare. ~~~~~~~~~~ PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet BY MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jun 14, 9:39 pm ET CROW AGENCY, Mont. – Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking.The Truth about the McCain Healthcare Plan
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have consistently lied to Americans about John McCain's plan. Their claims have failed every fact check from CBS to the Washington Post. John McCain is not going to raise taxes on middle class families.
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