News3 - Healthcare crisis

People living in Puerto Rico have a greater life expectancy than we do.... Residents of Cuba have a lower infant mortality rate than we do.... We are the most medicated population on the planet and yet we are also one of the sickest.... If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the 6th largest economy on the globe and yet rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes continue to increase.... In the United States today, health care bills cause more bankruptcies than anything else does. Millions of Americans are afraid to go to the hospital because they know that even a short visit would be a huge financial burden.... The health care system in the United States is so broken that it probably cannot be repaired.... The entire thing needs to be dismantled and completely reinvented. ... http://krunchd.com/hellscare - pb: from Bookmarklet

"As we head toward mid-term elections, with control of Congress and many statewide and local offices on the line, where do Americans stand on key issues driving the political debate? Here’s what the odds are telling us:" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

.Hawaii has had nearly-universal employer-mandated health insurance since 1974. ... health care premiums in Hawaii, for comprehensive care with small co-pays and deductibles, are nearly the lowest and their costs per medicare beneficiary are the lowest in the nation.- this is how you fight private overcharge fraud.. - pb: from Bookmarklet

not medical corporate cartel communism... if you're in that awkward middle, where you have a little money saved, current private medical insurance cartels scheme will take it all ........ Once a cottage industry, medical tourism may be on the cusp of a big expansion as governments from India to Singapore are investing in state-of-the-art hospitals, vying for a global market. Deloitte Consulting estimated that 560,000 U.S. residents went abroad for care in 08. The firm thinks that number will rise to 1.6 million by 2012, with patients getting discounts of up to 90 % on procedures from liver transplants to hip resurfacing. - pb: from Bookmarklet

10 - 20% a year. Grand fraud, monopoly market corruption. - pb: from Bookmarklet

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taken a moral imperative to place human life over profit.... A bill that will provide 70 billion dollars in subsidies to private insurance companies, at the expense of universal, affordable coverage for every American citizen. - pb: from Bookmarklet

"it was hard to believe that I was in America" - pb: from Bookmarklet

http://friendfeed.com/healthc... - http://friendfeed.com/news3 - pb: from Bookmarklet

TWICE as likely are patients who lack health insurance to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan - even though emergency rooms are required to care for all comers regardless of ability to pay. .... Overall, about 18,000 deaths each year have been traced to a lack of health insurance - a greed of private insurers / other study mentioned 40 000 / ... The risk of death was 56% higher for patients covered by Medicare ..... However, the risk of death was 80% higher for patients without any insurance. More than 45 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2007, and another 10 million people will join their ranks over the next decade, according to government estimates. - pb: from Bookmarklet

http://friendfeed.com/healthc... .... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps... - pb: from Bookmarklet

Canadians live two to three years longer than Americans and are as likely to survive heart attacks, childhood leukemia, and breast and cervical cancer. . Deaths considered preventable through health care are less frequent in Canada than in the U.S. Canada placed sixth among 19 countries surveyed, with 77 deaths for every 100,000 people. That compared with the last-place finish of the U.S., with 110 deaths. The Canadian mortality rate from asthma is one quarter of the U.S.’s, and the infant mortality rate is 34 % lower. 54 % of chronically ill Americans reported skipping a test or treatment, neglecting to go to a doctor when sick, or failing to fill a prescription because of the cost, according to a 2008 survey ..... As the price of health care in the U.S. has risen 3 to 4 times faster than the rate of inflation ..... The U.S. spent $7,290 on health care for each person in 2007, 87 % more than Canada’s $3,895 - pb: from Bookmarklet

Private-insurance administrative costs in the U.S. are 12.7 cents of a dollar, and as high as 18 cents for some companies, said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund. Government plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, spend 5.8 cents excluding costs of private drug plans, she said. In Canada 4.2 cents is spent on administration. - pb:

The Canadian mortality rate from asthma is one quarter of the U.S.’s, and the infant mortality rate is 34 % lower ! - pb:

stunning crime aspect of the biggest fraud on earth - US medical system. 10-20% premium increase every year. ..... Roughly 46.3 million people in the United States lacked coverage in 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau reported last week, up from 45.7 million in 2007 - pb: from Bookmarklet

domestic medical terrorism, perpetrated by multinational corporations and their private medical post-slavery population control profit machine health extortion system, on part of American population - pb:

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... .... http://friendfeed.com/healthc... - pb:

In other words, Ouellet believes there could be a role for private health-care delivery within the public system - pb: from Bookmarklet

I think they forgot to list a "dramatic drop in criminality" , resulting billions saved, lives spared, enhanced - pb: from Bookmarklet

"For children, a temporary loss of access to health care can have lifelong consequences" .. dah !??? - pb: from Bookmarklet

Medical segregation - More than 41 % of Hispanic Americans are uninsured .. those who make less than $36,000 a year (28.6 % uninsured) and those aged 18 to 29 (27.6 %). ..... The only solution is the Universal single payer public-private National health care system. Cost of reform - - $0. - pb: from Bookmarklet