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	<title>Comments on: Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find Savings</title>
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		<title>By: tk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Government funded health care is cruel, because it prolongs suffering to those who really need the care, like the elderly and very sick. 

It also raises health care cost so much that it makes health care unaffordable to everyone, including the government. This is why government health care often causes health care rationing, shortages, and diminished quality of care, when people can not pay any more taxes.

The insurance industry is trying to manage the huge cost of increased health care because of governmental policies while, at the same time, following insurance law that is written, dictated, and demanded by big government, even if it hurts consumers and raises premium 

Government funded health care, leaves people lives in the hands of government bureaucrats, who will decide if people literally decide if one lives or die. After all, where do you go if the government denies your care because it is too expensive, as it often does with the elderly or to those who statistically are going to die? Seniors suffer so much under government run health care.

Where do you go if the government is incompetent or decides that you don’t need the surgery or pain medication?
What does the doctor do when he or she is not paid or told what kind of care the needs to be offered, in order to save money? 

With private care, not only do health care costs become affordable to everyone, but you can hold a health care provider accountable for the quality of care, unlike government bureaucrats.  

There is a reason why cures for sickness are found here and not in other places in the world. There is a reason why the really sick come here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Government funded health care is cruel, because it prolongs suffering to those who really need the care, like the elderly and very sick. </p>
<p>It also raises health care cost so much that it makes health care unaffordable to everyone, including the government. This is why government health care often causes health care rationing, shortages, and diminished quality of care, when people can not pay any more taxes.</p>
<p>The insurance industry is trying to manage the huge cost of increased health care because of governmental policies while, at the same time, following insurance law that is written, dictated, and demanded by big government, even if it hurts consumers and raises premium </p>
<p>Government funded health care, leaves people lives in the hands of government bureaucrats, who will decide if people literally decide if one lives or die. After all, where do you go if the government denies your care because it is too expensive, as it often does with the elderly or to those who statistically are going to die? Seniors suffer so much under government run health care.</p>
<p>Where do you go if the government is incompetent or decides that you don’t need the surgery or pain medication?<br />
What does the doctor do when he or she is not paid or told what kind of care the needs to be offered, in order to save money? </p>
<p>With private care, not only do health care costs become affordable to everyone, but you can hold a health care provider accountable for the quality of care, unlike government bureaucrats.  </p>
<p>There is a reason why cures for sickness are found here and not in other places in the world. There is a reason why the really sick come here.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry</title>
		<link>http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/indudstry-cost-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-153202</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoaaa There!     &quot; ... aggressive efforts to prevent obesity, coordinate care, manage chronic illnesses and curtail unnecessary tests and procedures; by standardizing insurance claim forms; and by increasing the use of information technology, like electronic medical records.&quot;

Isn&#039;t that the understanding we had DECADES AGO when HMO/PPOs were chartered ... having asserted that by consolidating and streamlining the provision of health care - with a critical focus on effective prevention - they could provide health care most efficiently. 

Put quite simply, have they?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoaaa There!     &#8221; &#8230; aggressive efforts to prevent obesity, coordinate care, manage chronic illnesses and curtail unnecessary tests and procedures; by standardizing insurance claim forms; and by increasing the use of information technology, like electronic medical records.&#8221;</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that the understanding we had DECADES AGO when HMO/PPOs were chartered &#8230; having asserted that by consolidating and streamlining the provision of health care &#8211; with a critical focus on effective prevention &#8211; they could provide health care most efficiently. </p>
<p>Put quite simply, have they?</p>
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