Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
If/When ACA is repealed there will be a plan presented to counter it and Congress (aka our representatives) will vote for the better approach.
Research monies were merely not increased as much as previous years. That's not a "cut".
Also, who decides if a patient is suffering Dementia? The doctor or a board of bureaucrats??
I can't trust our IRS to be non-partisan.
How can I trust them to NOT throw Granny off a cliff?
I have medical insurance through my employer, but in order to keep my portion of the premiums low enough to afford them, I have a $4000 deductible for my husband and I. We have to meet the entire $4000 deductible before the insurance starts paying anything for either of us. My portion of the premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage is $155.24 every two weeks. That's $4,036.24 per year. And my poor employer's share is quite a bit more than that.
I go in for checkups every year or two, and those are covered 100%. But other than that, neither my husband nor I have had any medical costs in at least the past 10 years.
I recently woke up in the early morning hours one Saturday with severe pain in my upper right side. I called a nurse hotline and was advised to go the the Emergency Room.
Long story short, they did an ultrasound and couldn't find anything wrong. They didn't keep looking when the ultrasound didn't turn up anything, they just told me to go see a doctor on Monday.
Doctor suggested a cat scan because it might be kidney stones. The symptoms were nothing like kidney stones. I told him I would agree to a cat scan if I had another attack, but otherwise...no.
Anyway, I owe that doctor $365, the emergency room $960, the ER doctor $195, the doctor who read the ultrasound $175, and apparently there is a $5000 bill coming for other ER services (the ultrasound itself, I believe). I can't imagine what the cat scan would have been!
So I'm out of pocket $4000+ right off the bat, with no diagnosis. I'm in a bit of a financial bind right now, already, as my husband was unemployed for several months and his new job doesn't pay all that well, so this is really a problem. Next time I have a need to go to the ER, I'm going to think twice. I wonder how many people die because of that.
Something has to change. Do we want to be a country where decent, hard-working people die because they can't afford the exhorbitant medical costs? I don't think so.
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
No.
There is no "plan". White trash don't plan. That would take critical thinking.
The white trash world is a halflit dystopia of disappointment in which reaction is the primary operations mode for everything bigger than a child's birthday party, fear and resentment are the primary emotions beyond the front door, and religion represents the ultimate lottery - and, hilariously, among the "us" element is the moral hidey hole for epic fails in every direction, while providing the basis for loathing the "them" element.
Okay, maybe the last couple of clauses are more pathetic than hilarious. One's feelings can be mixed.
I have medical insurance through my employer, but in order to keep my portion of the premiums low enough to afford them, I have a $4000 deductible for my husband and I. We have to meet the entire $4000 deductible before the insurance starts paying anything for either of us. My portion of the premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage is $155.24 every two weeks. That's $4,036.24 per year. And my poor employer's share is quite a bit more than that.
I go in for checkups every year or two, and those are covered 100%. But other than that, neither my husband nor I have had any medical costs in at least the past 10 years.
I recently woke up in the early morning hours one Saturday with severe pain in my upper right side. I called a nurse hotline and was advised to go the the Emergency Room.
Long story short, they did an ultrasound and couldn't find anything wrong. They didn't keep looking when the ultrasound didn't turn up anything, they just told me to go see a doctor on Monday.
Doctor suggested a cat scan because it might be kidney stones. The symptoms were nothing like kidney stones. I told him I would agree to a cat scan if I had another attack, but otherwise...no.
Anyway, I owe that doctor $365, the emergency room $960, the ER doctor $195, the doctor who read the ultrasound $175, and apparently there is a $5000 bill coming for other ER services (the ultrasound itself, I believe). I can't imagine what the cat scan would have been!
So I'm out of pocket $4000+ right off the bat, with no diagnosis. I'm in a bit of a financial bind right now, already, as my husband was unemployed for several months and his new job doesn't pay all that well, so this is really a problem. Next time I have a need to go to the ER, I'm going to think twice. I wonder how many people die because of that.
Something has to change. Do we want to be a country where decent, hard-working people die because they can't afford the exhorbitant medical costs? I don't think so.
Q. "Do we want to be a country where decent, hard-working people die because they can't afford the exhorbitant medical costs?"
A. Apparently CrusaderFrank, Mitch McConnell, Speaker Boehner and the conservative wing of the GOP do.
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
No.
There is no "plan". White trash don't plan. That would take critical thinking.
The white trash world is a halflit dystopia of disappointment in which reaction is the primary operations mode for everything bigger than a child's birthday party, fear and resentment are the primary emotions beyond the front door, and religion represents the ultimate lottery - and, hilariously, among the "us" element is the moral hidey hole for epic fails in every direction, while providing the basis for loathing the "them" element.
Okay, maybe the last couple of clauses are more pathetic than hilarious. One's feelings can be mixed.
You missed Paul Ryan's plan, amiright?
If you're going to be the party of tax cuts, then you have to have a tax-cut plan that cuts most people's taxes. Ryan's plan is going to lead to tax increases for a broad swathe of middle-class Americans and do absolutely nothing for low-wage workers.
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
You put up a link asking people to read it. They comment and those you don't agree with you immediately jump on with responses like You're stupid. Your also a blank. Next guy? Same thing. You are so stupid, attack, attack, attack. Why did you put the thread up if you couldn't legitimately defend your position without attacking, Wry? You're funny! Go back and read through the thread and you'll have a good laugh. At yourself.
- Jeri
You missed Paul Ryan's plan, amiright?
Let the Debate Begin
By Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Devin Nunes
June 8, 2009 [...]
To ensure affordable, quality coverage for all, we propose real insurance reforms that reorient the incentives of these companies so that they jibe with patients. Our bill encourages state-based solutions - in the form of voluntary health exchanges. These exchanges will prevent cherry-picking against those deemed uninsurable and will be made possible with risk adjustment mechanisms and other state-level options such as reinsurance and risk pools. We also include common-sense reforms to expand coverage through auto-enrollment for individuals who do not select a plan at the start of the year.
To ensure that market forces can actually work in health care, patients must know what services cost and who provides the best service. We propose an industry-based Healthcare Services Commission that will bring much-needed transparency to the currently opaque health care market.
This comprehensive reform legislation includes concrete prevention and wellness initiatives, health information technology, long overdue entitlement reforms, and more.
Premiums drop, coverage expands in Washington's exchange
Despite predictions of rate shocks, most consumers in Washington state will actually see lower premiums and enhanced coverage when they buy insurance through the state's health insurance exchange.
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Tuesday released rates proposed by insurers, including Premera Blue Cross, Lifewise, Group Health Cooperative, BridgeSpan and Molina Health Care of Washington, for health plans they will sell on the state-run online marketplace, called the Washington Health Plan Finder, reported the Spokesman-Review.
And those prices don't include federal subsidies available to consumers, so the premiums that consumers will pay actually will be less than the rates proposed.
"We're pleasantly surprised with the individual rates we've seen so far," Kreidler said. "In many cases, people will get better benefits and pay less--especially if they qualify for subsidies."
Additionally, with the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010, hospitals operating in the United States are required annually to make public and update a list of their hospital’s standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital.
The Affordable Care Act also called for public reporting of performance measures on quality, cost, and other metrics. Public reporting will be used for insurance plans that will be offered through new state-level health insurance exchanges starting in 2014. Reports will also be prepared on hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers who participate in Medicare's new "value-based purchasing" program, which will base hospital payment in part on whether providers achieve targets for delivering higher-quality care. These performance data are also to be posted at HealthCare.gov. For Medicaid, the law required HHS to adopt an initial core set of quality measures; develop a standardized format for reporting by states; and make the information publicly available annually, beginning in 2014.
Prevention and wellness are major components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA makes prevention affordable and accessible for all Americans through a number of different ways, including the elimination of cost sharing for preventive services, expanding preventive services for seniors through Medicare, issuance of grants to reduce chronic disease, the development of a National Prevention Strategy, grants to small employers for wellness programs, and providing resources to States to promote wellness and prevention.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act seeks to improve American health care delivery and patient care through an unprecedented investment in health information technology. The provisions of the HITECH Act are specifically designed to work together to provide the necessary assistance and technical support to providers, enable coordination and alignment within and among states, establish connectivity to the public health community in case of emergencies, and assure the workforce is properly trained and equipped to be meaningful users of electronic health records.
The Affordable Care Act is an important factor contributing to slow growth in [Medicare] spending per beneficiary in 2011 and 2012, and is the primary cause of the projections of continued slow growth over the next decade. The Affordable Care Act restrains the rate of growth of payments to Medicare Advantage plans, restrains the rate of growth in unit payments to hospitals and other providers, promotes value-based payment systems, and makes major investments to reduce fraud and abuse. . . Both the CBO and OACT estimate that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the rate of growth of spending per beneficiary by approximately 1 percentage point per year over the ten year budget window.
In addition, the Affordable Care Act provides CMS the flexibility to implement a wide range of innovations designed to transform the delivery system by paying for value not volume. These innovations include fostering the growth of Accountable Care Organizations, Primary Care Medical Homes, bundled payments for acute and post-acute care, reducing the frequency of readmissions, reducing hospital acquired infections, and reducing fraudulent activity. These innovations are in the early stages of development, but they have the potential for reducing expenditure growth below projected levels.
Study: Dementia care costs more than cancer, heart disease - Apr. 4, 2013
Put your bias aside and consider the micro cost (to a family) and the macro cost (to the nation) for the care and treatment of those who suffer these maladies.
We hear often that the GOP's intent is to repeal Obamacare. Now, few of us understand the ACA details but many of us have watched our costs for health care grow every year for decades.
We know the cost to care for this set of disease is immense and yet research into the causes and treatment has been cut 5% do to the sequester; the vast majority of our citizens believe the Congress is broken.
Does anyone know what the GOP's plan for health care is if they are able to repeal Obamacare? And how will such a plan - if it exists - effect you, your family and your local government?
No.
There is no "plan". White trash don't plan. That would take critical thinking.
The white trash world is a halflit dystopia of disappointment in which reaction is the primary operations mode for everything bigger than a child's birthday party, fear and resentment are the primary emotions beyond the front door, and religion represents the ultimate lottery - and, hilariously, among the "us" element is the moral hidey hole for epic fails in every direction, while providing the basis for loathing the "them" element.
Okay, maybe the last couple of clauses are more pathetic than hilarious. One's feelings can be mixed.
You missed Paul Ryan's plan, amiright?
The really sad/annoying thing is the RWers are too stupid and/or too scared to examine what was and what is. Though they deny it, there every complaint is framed in words first issued by the Propagandists - Limbaugh, Hannity and other 'conservative' broadcasters, as well as politicians. Conservatives in single quotes because they are entirely self serving individuals whose only allegiance is to their bank account and celebrity.
The really sad/annoying thing is the RWers are too stupid and/or too scared to examine what was and what is. Though they deny it, there every complaint is framed in words first issued by the Propagandists - Limbaugh, Hannity and other 'conservative' broadcasters, as well as politicians. Conservatives in single quotes because they are entirely self serving individuals whose only allegiance is to their bank account and celebrity.
Your hatred of anything to the right is quite evident, but you hold your allegiance to the worst propagandist ever created, Obama. If it were not for his teleprompter, he would have nothing to say. He is solely dependent on whatever his puppet masters write on his teleprompter.
Republicans have always been welcomed to repeal the ACA provided they immediately replace it with something that ensures every American is covered with health insurance and health costs are addressed.
They should eat more coconut oil.
coconut oil: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings - WebMD
There is the school thought that wants to give everyone equal access to the $500 band-aid, whether they need it or not, whether they can afford it or not.
There is a school thought that questions why that band-aid is valued at $500. Why do we assume that the costs have any relation to the expense of making them available? We have Administrators making decisions that should be between the Patient and Doctor. We punish Doctors for going against the current. Why is that? Why should we not expect more layers of Bureaucracy to increase cost? We should be simplifying the process, streamlining it, not obstructing treatment and charging more for doing less. Just a thought.
I suggest you read Time Magazine special report, "Why Medical Bills are Killing Us" issued early this year. Particular attention is paid to "how outrageous pricing (see "Chargemaster) and egregious profits are destroying health care", by Steven Brill.
The propaganda by those who make the egregious profits has taken all intelligent debate out of the issue of health care reform and stupid assholes like the CrusaderFrank continue to parrot the hate and fear of special interests.
Republicans have always been welcomed to repeal the ACA provided they immediately replace it with something that ensures every American is covered with health insurance and health costs are addressed.
Explain to the class why our federal government, or any of it's swinging tentacles, should have a role in it's citizens' health care.
No.
There is no "plan". White trash don't plan. That would take critical thinking.
The white trash world is a halflit dystopia of disappointment in which reaction is the primary operations mode for everything bigger than a child's birthday party, fear and resentment are the primary emotions beyond the front door, and religion represents the ultimate lottery - and, hilariously, among the "us" element is the moral hidey hole for epic fails in every direction, while providing the basis for loathing the "them" element.
Okay, maybe the last couple of clauses are more pathetic than hilarious. One's feelings can be mixed.
You missed Paul Ryan's plan, amiright?
Yeah. Post it!
Republicans have always been welcomed to repeal the ACA provided they immediately replace it with something that ensures every American is covered with health insurance and health costs are addressed.
Explain to the class why our federal government, or any of it's swinging tentacles, should have a role in it's citizens' health care.
Holder and Obama suffer dementia, that's why they don't know what's going on around them
