Daschle probably doesn't pay his taxes because he knows where the money goes and is horrified as he gets older that he will not have enough to pay for a doctors care!
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The article that Leeny posted shows exactly what we nurses have known for years. That education on prevention of illness, and on ways to live a healthier lifestyle, are more productive than waiting for the illness to occur and then treating the symptoms. But there are few places and fewer programs that utilize nurses in this way. I worked for a home health agency and while I did do a great deal of patient education, it was always after the fact. After a hospitalization or after the exacerbation of a chronic disease.
Health education and living a healthy lifestyle needs to begin in the schools. But school nurses are so inundated with doing paperwork that there is never any time. Plus, most of them are assigned to several schools and so are with a group of children in any given school for only a short time.
The other problem with Medicare and repeat hospitalizations, etc., began when Medicare, followed by private insurances, began using the system of determining the approved length of a hospitalization based on the diagnosis only. Never was the home situation, support system, patient knowledge and compliance, factored into the equation. It was only, "You had your gall bladder removed. You are approved for a three day hospitalization. It is insane.
And frustration with that system is a large factor in the nursing shortage. Lots of us got fed up with not being allowed to provide individual patient care.
Posted 3 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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Remember when a mastectomy patient was sent home the same day? Fortunately the gov't stepped in to overrule the insurance companies then. But all those who voted for Obama and Pelosi, the chickens have come home to roost.
Posted 3 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Phoenix, AZ 10/8 #
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Actually, I could care less if Tom Daschle had an affair. Or, if any other cabinet member or member of congress had an affair. What concerns me more is... are they fit to help steer and run our country? What they do in their bedrooms is not a concern of mine just now. It is that our country is teetering on the brink of a disaster. FDR was well documented in his extramarital affairs. He still was, in many ways, a very good president.
Right now, I am open to anyone who can help us, whether they have had an affair or not.
Posted 3 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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That's what I'm talking about. If we had done that, guess who would have been all over us in a New York minute?
Posted 3 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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My insurance company recently fell awake to the idea of prevention and agreed to pay for membership in Weight Watchers on the theory that obesity leads to all sorts of expensive health issues. I think this is very enlightened and in their fiscal interest at the same time.
Posted 3 years ago by Kitten Whisperer #
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The answer, to me, is in many ways very simple. First, we can all agree that the government has no business deciding on medical care for two reasons - they are not doctors, and they routinely use the "one size fits all" answer. We will not even go into the kickbacks, power plays and influence mongering.
Second, most people are unhappy with their HMO's and not realizing that the HMO's will provide any kind of medical coverage that your employer wants to pay for. Most employers, to save money, will only go with the minimum that they are required to cover.
Answer: WE the PEOPLE should be in charge of our health insurance the same way we are in charge of our car insurance. We should get discounts based on our overall fitness, we should be able to buy whatever coverage we would like - you don't smoke and have no family history of cancer? Well, maybe you will want to go without cancer coverage then. In any event the individual should be buying his insurance and no one else. Don't like your HMO? You can dump them and move to one you DO like.
Imagine how HMO's will react when they realize that they have to get each individual member instead of just pleasing the accountants at the company. The people who can't afford it, that's where congress should step in and help them pay for it. Not put them on some government plan, but instead THEY would pay the insurance fee until said individual was back to work.
Too often we look to the government for answers when the real answer is to take responsibility for ourselves
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I can agree with what you said, Instinct, with the qualification that insurance companies should not be able to cut out people with pre-existing conditions. My husband has been told to take 6 months medical leave (he is a crisis line counselor for the County). To pay insurance while he is gone will cost us $1600/mo.--outrageous! Yet we can't go to another company because no one would take him now that he has a pre-existing heart problem. So--either pay the high amount or do without-neither a good option. I struggle with this a lot, because I dont think health care should be a for profit business, yet I dont want the government to take it over entirely. I dont know the solution.
Posted 3 years ago by rainingwolf #
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