How can my statement be true but as misleading as a flawed study?
Oh puleeze! You deliberately missed the whole point. (it's either that or you are too dense to write a coherent sentence). The point is that people are not "bleeding to death" but they are still dying because they can't afford adequate health care, and medication is part of health care.
I notice that you were very quick to point out the flaws in the 2K WHO study, but how about the current poll recently published by the New England Journal of Medicine? The one in which 70% of the physicians who responded said they were in favor of some form of "government option". This is a group that works on a daily basis with medicaid and medicare. My own personal physician is in favor of a public option, and he maintains a clinic in a blue collar section of the Bronx. His view is that between the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies and a "few bad apple doctors" (his words) the health insurance system in the US is very very badly broken. His wife is a physician too, a first generation Norwegian and he says she is absolutely appalled at the state of health care in the US. He said that she says (I've never talked to her directly) that the people of Norway would have rebelled and taken to the streets if they had to endure what we endure.
NaCl(it's worse than broke and it needs radical change)H2O
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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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