House healthcare bill draft released
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rethink those numbers and include medicaid/medicare
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This Bill Moyers interview with a former Cigna-VP-turned-whistleblower-type is eye-opening. It's stuff we already knew, but to hear someone detailing the industry strategies -- the stuff that goes on behind the scenes -- is jarring. It's lengthy and very informative. Watch it, even just the first few minutes, and see if you don't get angry.
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
I go back and forth on what Congress is doing right now, but it is becoming more clear that to do nothing is criminal. I read this quote from the CBS chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, and it made sense to me:
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
I go back and forth on what Congress is doing right now, but it is becoming more clear that to do nothing is criminal. I read this quote from the CBS chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, and it made sense to me:
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Obama's trasparency promise appears to be wilting under the summer sun!
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affordable health care in this country should not be a privilege
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?em Why We Must Ration Health Care
By PETER SINGER
Published: July 15, 2009
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
The costs of the current health care system are becoming increasingly clear, and public sentiment for a more systematic approach may be growing. We?d like to know what you think about the prospect of rationing.
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn?t going to be good. But suppose it?s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man ? and everyone else like him ? with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone?s life? If there is any point at which you say, ?No, an extra six months isn?t worth that much,? then you think that health care should be rationed.
In the current U.S. debate over health care reform, ?rationing? has become a dirty word. Meeting last month with five governors, President Obama urged them to avoid using the term, apparently for fear of evoking the hostile response that sank the Clintons? attempt to achieve reform. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published at the end of last year with the headline ?Obama Will Ration Your Health Care,? Sally Pipes, C.E.O. of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, described how in Britain the national health service does not pay for drugs that are regarded as not offering good value for money, and added, ?Americans will not put up with such limits, nor will our elected representatives.? And the Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus, told CNSNews in April, ?There is no rationing of health care at all? in the proposed reform.
By PETER SINGER
Published: July 15, 2009
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
The costs of the current health care system are becoming increasingly clear, and public sentiment for a more systematic approach may be growing. We?d like to know what you think about the prospect of rationing.
If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn?t going to be good. But suppose it?s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man ? and everyone else like him ? with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone?s life? If there is any point at which you say, ?No, an extra six months isn?t worth that much,? then you think that health care should be rationed.
In the current U.S. debate over health care reform, ?rationing? has become a dirty word. Meeting last month with five governors, President Obama urged them to avoid using the term, apparently for fear of evoking the hostile response that sank the Clintons? attempt to achieve reform. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published at the end of last year with the headline ?Obama Will Ration Your Health Care,? Sally Pipes, C.E.O. of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, described how in Britain the national health service does not pay for drugs that are regarded as not offering good value for money, and added, ?Americans will not put up with such limits, nor will our elected representatives.? And the Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus, told CNSNews in April, ?There is no rationing of health care at all? in the proposed reform.