Insofar as I don't believe we're doing anything to cover the uninsured, I must agree with that statement. ALthough in fairness, we do already have a number of systems in place on the matter, and nobody has to worry about bleeding to death because they are broke.
The point is, the statement above is basically as misleading as the flawed WHO study. True, no one has to worry about bleeding to death because they are broke, but how many millions in the US forgo medication, proper preventative care, medical advice and etc and etc and etc, because they can't afford it? A couple of cases in point from my own personal experience.
There is a family that lives several houses down from me. Parents, three kids and grandmother. The wife had high blood pressure. Husband lost job and the wife's medical insurance was of the "catastrophic intervention" type. They couldn't afford better, so she stopped taking the medication she couldn't afford. She died two weeks ago of a stroke, she was 37.
I have health insurance, it's OK, not great. It pays $35/mo for medication, all other medication expenses come out of my pocket. I'm 60, and have slightly high blood pressure and slightly high blood sugar. My out of pocket medication costs are well over 100/month. To keep costs down, I test my blood sugar twice every other day instead of the recommended twice a day. I can take my own blood pressure and frequently skip my blood pressure medication if it's not "too high". I'm not as bad as my neighbor Sylvia was, but I'm still "rationing" my care due to monetary restraints.
Sylvia wasn't "bleeding to death" but she's still dead because they couldn't afford decent health care.
NaCl(and there are millions and millions and millions like us)H2O
Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Government-Run Health Insurance Plan 
- 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
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- 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
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I just hope this doesn't squash all health-care reform attempts
- 29/09/2009 09:12:15 PM
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It definitely needs work, but not scrapped.....
- 29/09/2009 09:16:32 PM
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Opinion polls with health care have huge swings depending on how it's phrased
- 29/09/2009 09:28:28 PM
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Polls are horrid evidence in my mind
- 29/09/2009 09:32:58 PM
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Re: Polls are horrid evidence in my mind
- 29/09/2009 10:12:26 PM
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Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 10:29:13 PM
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Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM
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Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 11:40:42 PM
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his statements on health care are precisely my point, but much more well stated. *NM*
- 29/09/2009 11:54:29 PM
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Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO
- 29/09/2009 11:44:58 PM
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Re: Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO
- 30/09/2009 12:28:36 AM
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that the private sector has a long history of abusing both customer and employee *NM*
- 30/09/2009 03:46:03 AM
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That's indisbutable
- 30/09/2009 05:55:45 PM
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It doesn't work at all
- 30/09/2009 04:27:44 AM
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i have yet to see any evidence of malpractice insurance being a driving cost of health care
- 30/09/2009 05:27:34 AM
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When the malpractice insurance can cost well over $100k a year of course it effects the costs.
- 30/09/2009 06:21:29 AM
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it's not THAT they pay malpractice
- 30/09/2009 02:00:04 PM
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but doctors are *required* to buy malpractice insurance
- 30/09/2009 04:13:08 PM
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that's completely moot to the situation malpractice insurance causes.
- 30/09/2009 04:21:42 PM
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hooray, we're going to continue in mediocrity when it comes to our health
- 29/09/2009 10:15:00 PM
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That is a decade old and horribly discredited citation
- 29/09/2009 11:46:51 PM
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regardless, we still spend a lot more on health care while having too many uncovered people
- 29/09/2009 11:56:24 PM
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My objection, in this context, is strictly about references
- 30/09/2009 12:13:40 AM
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i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 12:54:25 AM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 01:15:30 AM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 12:24:45 PM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 06:29:09 PM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM
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Interesting...
- 01/10/2009 12:09:35 AM
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Hooray! The government isn't going to get directly involved and make HC even worse! *NM*
- 30/09/2009 01:03:50 AM
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*NM*