Thanks Chris for pointing out this great article from the Deseret News. And Scott, no videos today, but don't think my fear mongering days are over...I'm sure I'll post more in the future. Lol...
A few highlights:
Dr. Kim Bateman (Physician):
* "Health care in the U.S. doesn't fail in a clinical way but it fails by making care less and less affordable or completely inaccessible through insurance loopholes like pre-existing conditions, ever-higher deductibles, and co-pays and ever shorter lists of benefits."
* "Lack of insurance doesn't prevent someone from being sick, but lack of it is certainly making people sicker, sometimes fatally...a noticeable and increasing number of patients are coming in with untreated infections, complications from diabetes and asthmas that are the direct result of people not getting basic medical care because they don't have insurance.
Dr. Claudia Fruin, a Bountiful pediatrician and Utah chapter president of the American Academy of Pediatrics:
* "Do we want and can we afford the laid-off father of six who can no longer buy his daughter's growth hormone, the 19-year-old who ignored an infection and had to have surgery and weeks of expensive antibiotics, having 110 people lose insurance every day, the continued bankrupting of Americans unlucky enough to get seriously ill and seriously in debt, the $12,681 in annual insurance premiums for working Utah families, the 1,200 people who died because they didn't have insurance and another 1,200 by 2019 if nothing is done?"
4 comments:
Dear Dr. Claudia Fruin, please show me the death certificates of those whose cause of death was "lack of health insurance" apparently there are 1,200 of them running around.
Come on people, words mean things! Those 1,200 people died from lack of health care, not health insurance. And while I believe that this number is a complete fallacy, what really should be looked at is why didn't those people get the care they needed? Did Medicare/medicade deny them? Did they chose to avoid treatments that were too expensive? Were they terminal and treatment would have only temporarily prolonged their lives? Were there no free clinics in the area?
How do Canadians die if they are all covered? maybe frostbite.
Dear Dr. Bateman,
Please don’t advocate taking away our freedom because you don’t understand the concept of insurance. Some people may want the choice to have a higher deductible. It may be worth it to them to have a lower insurance bill. Also, some may want to buy a policy that has a short list of benefits…just basic coverage. Some may not want to buy a policy with everything the government thinks should be covered. People who need more care…and a bigger list of benefits should have to bite the bullet.
Please don’t feed me the garbage that the government can make better choices about health insurance than individual people.
Why are all my friends Republicans? LOL...
Secretly you know you are one of us :)
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