This guy is 6'2", 260 lbs 29 years old. His blood... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/415 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:54:35 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/414/t/Cuba-Viva-la-Revoluccion.html http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y03/jan03/22e6.htm
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA557_Cuban_Health_Care.html
feeds@yuku.com (RickW08) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/414 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:25:57 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/413/t/BRITISH-STYLE-SOCIALISM.html
I think the USA is the greatest country in the world not by chance or happenstance, but because we have embraced the spirit of rugged individualism as expressed through free-market capitalism, hard work and enterprise.

Other countries should be as great and powerful as America. Consider the Great Powers at the beginning of the 20th century when America was but a backwater... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (route3pete) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/413 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:49 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/412/t/Hello-from-Peter.html ]]> feeds@yuku.com (route3pete) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/412 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:55:54 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/374/t/Freedom-to-practice-medicine.html feeds@yuku.com (mandom60) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/374 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:18:29 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/393/t/Letter-to-the-editor-in-Kelowna-BC.html Heading: Husband's death shows hospital need

To the editor;
I have been contemplating this letter since June 18 and the article in the November 7 Westside Weekly finally got me writing. My husband died on the floor of a walk- in clinic because the Westside of the bridge lacks any medical services for someone who is in medical extremis. I arrived home on Monday, June 18 at 5:10 p.m. to find my 68-year-old... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/393 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:47:17 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/380/t/Reason-5-not-to-want-government-medicine.html
3)        COST EFFICIENCY: The place to look to resolve health care system problems is on the spending side, specifically, attacking those things that drive up the cost of care. Governments are ill-suited to do this: Rather, they are good at slashing medical reimbursements (what the system will pay a doctor or hospital) to enforce cost efficiency. Even these cuts are, however, subject to political pressure.
As doctors, hard-pressed to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/380 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:41:30 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/381/t/Reason-4-not-to-want-government-medicine.html
2)        RATIONING: For a government to provide any kind of program it must raise money. This is done through many forms of taxation. Among those, the easiest to spot and understand, in terms of how much it extracts from each of us, is the income tax and its two sidekicks, Social Security and Medicare taxes.
The clear effect of taxes based on income is to transfer money from those who make the most, and spend it on programs that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/381 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:40:44 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/382/t/Reason-3-not-to-want-government-medicine.html
1)        MONOPOLISTIC: The Framers of the United States Constitution never specified the preferred form of economy in the document. Its provisions, however, encouraged a free market. In their own writings and discourse, however, the Framers knew, understood, and preached against the evil created by monopolies of any type. As for economic monopolies, they understood, and time has shown, that economic monopolies stifle innovation, increase... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/382 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:39:54 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/383/t/Reason-2-not-to-want-government-medicine.html
2)        COST: When Medicares authors sold the concept to U.S. voters in 1965, they claimed that Medicare spending would rise to an affordable $9 billion by 1990. Instead, spending hit $57 billion. These types of underestimates are common to government programs.
It is seldom that once a legislative body authorizes spending on a program that the actual costs are less than authorized. Instead, Americans take these estimates with a grain... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/383 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:38:56 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/384/t/Reason-1-not-to-want-government-medicine.html
TRUST: We cannot trust the management of individual health care to governments especially the federal government for many reasons.
Governments are, by practice, political institutions that respond to the pressures brought to bear by citizens, and often (even most often) gets its data from special interest groups. These groups use often highly selective data that is shaded to favor their worldview, or protect their vested interest. By nature, then,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/384 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:37:40 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/387/t/5-principles-of-reform.html 1) Restore the doctor/patient relationship
2) Restore the principles of insurance
3) Remove third party payers from routine care, but allow pre-tax funding of medical expenses
4) Require transparency in hospital and provider billing and require that rates be clearly posted
5) Remove government imposed barriers to free market competition ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/387 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:32:11 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/394/t/Please-post-your-stories-here.html feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/394 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:20:14 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/407/t/Access-or-coverage-.html
The US census bureau reports that 15.8% of US residents are uninsured at some point in the year, but even the uninsured have access to medical treatment.

Would you rather have access or coverage with no right of access? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/407 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:18:16 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/362/t/Consumers-for-HealthCare-Choices.html
I was away from the office for just over a week. I was in DC and attended the Consumers for Healthcare Choices Annual Awards dinner where several notables were honored.

Please see the website for more information.www.chcchoices.org ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CommonSenseRalph) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/362 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:07:13 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/403/t/Is-Health-Care-a-Right-.html
Why Health Care Is Not a Right

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
Ayn Rand

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (LKurisko) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/403 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:52:04 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/375/t/A-Healthcare-Solution-that-works.html
A Health Care Solution That Works
(submitted to but not published by the Wall Street Journal July 2006)

This might sound shocking to Mr. Stern coming from a private, non-unionized physician, but I agree with his analysis that the employer-based system of healthcare is overcrushed by out-of-control costsand masses of uninsured.

His plan, sketchy as it was, involves a universal system of coverage similar, I suspect, to the one... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Guest Poster) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/375 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:24:03 GMT http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/376/t/Patient-Confidentiality.html
Patient Confidentiality

Patient confidentiality is an important principle that most physicians still respect. Patients trust physicians not to reveal their private, medical information to others. They expect that physicians will adhere to the Hippocratic ethic followed for thousands of years that states, What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of menI will keep to myself.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Guest Poster) http://healthcare73781.yuku.com/topic/376 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:21:47 GMT