The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25:
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
To deny a healthcare, thus causing a death of 40 000 Americans a year for the sake of bigger profits of corporations that raise costs of "insurance" 10-20% a year to me is CRIMINAL, UNWISE, WRONG, SINFUL, COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, FASCIST and untenable.
It can be argued that US Constitution, by saying "unalienable right to pursue happiness", covers the right to health care also.
WHY NOT then deny health care to rich robber barons, to CEOs of insurance companies? Why to people who's jobs have been exported to China?
EVERY developed nation on this Earth - in fact, every, period, has a national, public-private healthcare single payer system.
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Showing posts with label universal healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label universal healthcare. Show all posts
Monday, November 2, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Health Care Deal Reached In House: Waxman
Comment on an article.
To exclude from insurance people who need it, aka ill people, with preexisting conditions, or poor, equals to me to medical fascism, to discriminative physical elimination of a segment of population.
This should not be allowed, and is clearly violation of human rights and common morality.
It is very important to seize this moment for a real reform, the $0 cost Universal Single payer public-private national healthcare system. There is no Whitewater made up scandal to topple the American President, to stop this reform now.
1. Extend Medicare to everybody. Eliminate all tens of other government health sytems, like Veterans.
2. Redirect payments through employers to a single payer system. Stop employment based healthcare.
3. Supervise medical and pharma monopolies, to prevent outrageous price raises of 10-20% a year.
Apart from the choice of doctors , and parallel existence of any private plans:
1. Everybody must be covered, for the sake of equality, human rights, justice, and lowest costs.
2. Everybody will participate in this national plan.
3. Everybody will contribute, according to their means.
There is no other way to make it work.
This is all very easy, let's just do it.
Enough of 20% costs off $1 of healthcare costs to private insurance bureaucracies.
Enough of insure only healthy, and drop the poor, drop the sick, just to make profits!
Petr Buben
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Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
To exclude from insurance people who need it, aka ill people, with preexisting conditions, or poor, equals to me to medical fascism, to discriminative physical elimination of a segment of population.
This should not be allowed, and is clearly violation of human rights and common morality.
It is very important to seize this moment for a real reform, the $0 cost Universal Single payer public-private national healthcare system. There is no Whitewater made up scandal to topple the American President, to stop this reform now.
1. Extend Medicare to everybody. Eliminate all tens of other government health sytems, like Veterans.
2. Redirect payments through employers to a single payer system. Stop employment based healthcare.
3. Supervise medical and pharma monopolies, to prevent outrageous price raises of 10-20% a year.
Apart from the choice of doctors , and parallel existence of any private plans:
1. Everybody must be covered, for the sake of equality, human rights, justice, and lowest costs.
2. Everybody will participate in this national plan.
3. Everybody will contribute, according to their means.
There is no other way to make it work.
This is all very easy, let's just do it.
Enough of 20% costs off $1 of healthcare costs to private insurance bureaucracies.
Enough of insure only healthy, and drop the poor, drop the sick, just to make profits!
Petr Buben
http://friendfeed.com/news3 - http://friendfeed.com/petrbuben - http://friendfeed.com/healthcare1
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Monday, June 22, 2009
Poll NYTimes/CBS : 72% of Americans want public universal health care system, a real reform
Republicans, and health monopolies, resist, as always. Premiums for health insurance go up every year 10-20%.
The cost of reform would be $0, taxes and all - $0 - it'd be actually cheaper for all .....
A chilling reading - over 60% of all US bankruptcies attributable to medical problems - a compelling evidence that the US health care system is broken - http://www.gizmag.com/over-60-of-all-us-bankruptcies-attributable-to-medical-problems/11895/
Sign the petition for the real reform - http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center/
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Universal Healthcare system
Health Care and Bureaucracy, comment from USAToday:
I've been hearing for years that government intervention in health care will lead to "some bureaucrat telling you what to do."
Here's the choice: a private sector bureaucrat whose interest is in the bottom line of their employer, and would just wait it out until you move on to some other health plan, or a public sector bureaucrat whose interest is in your long term health (so you'll cost less), and is answerable to congress and regulators.
When it comes to health care, federal bureaucracy is cheaper and it yields better outcomes than corporate bureaucracy. Medicare's administrative costs are peanuts compared to the average private health plan. When they instituted private competition for Medicare under Medicare Advantage they found that they actually had to pay them more to get the same results as the boring old government version.
Putting morality aside, universal care is the only way we'll ever get costs under control. The healthy have to subsidize the sick; the rich the poor, the young and the old. You can't spread risk any other way. Insurers have to have a long-term stake in your well-being or else they'll spend their money on corporate jets denying your claims until you turn 65 and become the government's problem.
Looking at the economy, imagine of all the entrepreneurs who stay in their middle management positions because they're afraid to go it alone, hire a few people and start a small business for fear of them and their families being uninsured. Think of all the million dollar American ideas gathering dust in some cubicle for a lack of health security.
If it's politically expedient to include private insurers, so be it, but it's got to be on terms that serve Americans first and shareholders second. Since we need to have some kind of universal system, it may be the leanest, most well-coordinated one out there.
Many are the times that I've heard people who rail against government waste profess their true love for Medicare. I say let them have it. Let all of us have it.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/01/28/does-the-us-need-government-mandated-universal-healthcare.html#2060018
I've been hearing for years that government intervention in health care will lead to "some bureaucrat telling you what to do."
Here's the choice: a private sector bureaucrat whose interest is in the bottom line of their employer, and would just wait it out until you move on to some other health plan, or a public sector bureaucrat whose interest is in your long term health (so you'll cost less), and is answerable to congress and regulators.
When it comes to health care, federal bureaucracy is cheaper and it yields better outcomes than corporate bureaucracy. Medicare's administrative costs are peanuts compared to the average private health plan. When they instituted private competition for Medicare under Medicare Advantage they found that they actually had to pay them more to get the same results as the boring old government version.
Putting morality aside, universal care is the only way we'll ever get costs under control. The healthy have to subsidize the sick; the rich the poor, the young and the old. You can't spread risk any other way. Insurers have to have a long-term stake in your well-being or else they'll spend their money on corporate jets denying your claims until you turn 65 and become the government's problem.
Looking at the economy, imagine of all the entrepreneurs who stay in their middle management positions because they're afraid to go it alone, hire a few people and start a small business for fear of them and their families being uninsured. Think of all the million dollar American ideas gathering dust in some cubicle for a lack of health security.
If it's politically expedient to include private insurers, so be it, but it's got to be on terms that serve Americans first and shareholders second. Since we need to have some kind of universal system, it may be the leanest, most well-coordinated one out there.
Many are the times that I've heard people who rail against government waste profess their true love for Medicare. I say let them have it. Let all of us have it.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/01/28/does-the-us-need-government-mandated-universal-healthcare.html#2060018
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