This is one of those times when I’m going to put “no code” here. I saw the article that I talk about here days ago, and got a chance to read it today.
October 22, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 10/22/11 Health Care
I saw this article mentioned on the front page of the New York Times the other day. I’ve put the first few paragraphs next:
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"Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it was too costly and would not work.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said she had concluded that premiums would be so high that few healthy people would sign up. The program, which was intended for people with chronic illnesses or severe disabilities, was known as Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or Class.
“We have not identified a way to make Class work at this time,” Ms. Sebelius said. She said the program, which had been championed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was financially unsustainable."
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October 22, 2011
I guess I’m concerned about this. The people who need health care coverage the most are the people with the most problems. I’m also curious as to why there was to be no federal subsidy for the long term care program. People who get up and go to work every day are supporting the country in addition to supporting themselves; if they get sick or hurt, or just old, they should not have to worry about what’s going to happen to them.
Also; there are only so many resources to go around for people who have severe disabilities. Families, charities and human services are always overburdened, not only by the needs of people with disabilities, but by the paucity of qualified, caring people who want to work with and provide services to people with those disabilities. Everything that can be done to give people with disabilities the chance to be as independent as possible should be done.
I know that what I’m about to say is going to put my picture in the center of a prototype for dartboards that the Republican Party will send out as gifts for the holidays. I think that most health care should be socialized; I think that it’s fine to raise taxes for that. I think that health care providers should have the option of being in private practice if they want to, especially for care and procedures that are optional. That way, people who want to make extra money in health care can have the option of doing that. You could also have practitioners who split their practice to varying degrees, so that you could both work as part of a socialized system and also have some private clients who can afford to pay you higher rates.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 22, 2011 @ 11:26 a.m.
October 22, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 10/22/11 Health Care
I saw this article mentioned on the front page of the New York Times the other day. I’ve put the first few paragraphs next:
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"Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it was too costly and would not work.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said she had concluded that premiums would be so high that few healthy people would sign up. The program, which was intended for people with chronic illnesses or severe disabilities, was known as Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or Class.
“We have not identified a way to make Class work at this time,” Ms. Sebelius said. She said the program, which had been championed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was financially unsustainable."
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October 22, 2011
I guess I’m concerned about this. The people who need health care coverage the most are the people with the most problems. I’m also curious as to why there was to be no federal subsidy for the long term care program. People who get up and go to work every day are supporting the country in addition to supporting themselves; if they get sick or hurt, or just old, they should not have to worry about what’s going to happen to them.
Also; there are only so many resources to go around for people who have severe disabilities. Families, charities and human services are always overburdened, not only by the needs of people with disabilities, but by the paucity of qualified, caring people who want to work with and provide services to people with those disabilities. Everything that can be done to give people with disabilities the chance to be as independent as possible should be done.
I know that what I’m about to say is going to put my picture in the center of a prototype for dartboards that the Republican Party will send out as gifts for the holidays. I think that most health care should be socialized; I think that it’s fine to raise taxes for that. I think that health care providers should have the option of being in private practice if they want to, especially for care and procedures that are optional. That way, people who want to make extra money in health care can have the option of doing that. You could also have practitioners who split their practice to varying degrees, so that you could both work as part of a socialized system and also have some private clients who can afford to pay you higher rates.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 22, 2011 @ 11:26 a.m.