Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine comment on healthcare reform

[☭proletarian☭]

evident in these two opinion pieces. WALL STREET JOURNAL
Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.
Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Actuary Richard Foster estimates.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567981549184844.html
BALTIMORE SUN
Prescription: more doctors
Insurance doesn't guarantee care, so we need incentives to boost the ranks of physicians
That 30 million Americans may soon be able to obtain health care insurance is at the core of the Senate and House health care bills. But let's be clear: "insurance" doesn't guarantee "care." Indeed, a recurrent theme on the Senate floor last week was that the legislation is giving "bus tickets" - that is, health insurance - to uninsured Americans. But there are no buses running on those routes.
Prescription: more doctors - baltimoresun.com

Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine comment on healthcare reform

 

[Old Rocks]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

 

[Joe Steel]

evident in these two opinion pieces. WALL STREET JOURNAL

Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients

A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.
Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Actuary Richard Foster estimates.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567981549184844.html

BALTIMORE SUN

Prescription: more doctors

Insurance doesn't guarantee care, so we need incentives to boost the ranks of physicians
That 30 million Americans may soon be able to obtain health care insurance is at the core of the Senate and House health care bills. But let's be clear: "insurance" doesn't guarantee "care." Indeed, a recurrent theme on the Senate floor last week was that the legislation is giving "bus tickets" - that is, health insurance - to uninsured Americans. But there are no buses running on those routes.

Prescription: more doctors - baltimoresun.com

Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine comment on healthcare reform

What's your point?

 

[Harry Dresden]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

pretty easy with only 4.2 million people to manage....there are more people in LA.....the county i live in has 3.5 million.....the amount of people and the diversity of the people matters...

 

[Chaze]

Harvard and USC economists say that the proposed healthcare reforms would slow the rate of cost increases and free up money for companies to raise wages and hire more workers. (the article is at LA Times - I can't post the link)

I guess we'll continue to listen to the opinions which confirm our beliefs and discount everything else.

 

[Political Junky]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

pretty easy with only 4.2 million people to manage....there are more people in LA.....the county i live in has 3.5 million.....the amount of people and the diversity of the people matters...

You're not the first to suggest that population has something to do with it. It doesn't.

 

[Luissa]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

pretty easy with only 4.2 million people to manage....there are more people in LA.....the county i live in has 3.5 million.....the amount of people and the diversity of the people matters...

How many people live in China and Japan?

 

[American Horse]

evident in these two opinion pieces. WALL STREET JOURNAL
Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.
Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013....

<SNIP>

BALTIMORE SUN
Prescription: more doctors
Insurance doesn't guarantee care, so we need incentives to boost the ranks of physicians...
That 30 million Americans may soon be able to obtain health care insurance is at the core of the Senate and House health care bills.

No problem... we can get them from India.

 

[Harry Dresden]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

pretty easy with only 4.2 million people to manage....there are more people in LA.....the county i live in has 3.5 million.....the amount of people and the diversity of the people matters...

You're not the first to suggest that population has something to do with it. It doesn't.

oh it doesnt?....300 million people with different values, religion,ethnicity,the logistics to get the product out there and other problems as compared to a country half the size of S.California who are basically all on the same page.....yea believe that Junky....hows it working so far?

 

[Harry Dresden]

How does Costa Rica manage their health care system?

pretty easy with only 4.2 million people to manage....there are more people in LA.....the county i live in has 3.5 million.....the amount of people and the diversity of the people matters...

How many people live in China and Japan?

hows Chinas system working out?.....Japan is a small land compared to us with basically the same type of people living there....how many diverse nationalities with different thoughts are there?....how about different religions?.....the great majority of their people are on the same page....and in China they dont have much choice in what their govt does.....my sons friend who is Chinese works and now lives in Shanghai for their company....he says it is interesting but he says their medical system is overtaxed by the amount of people that are there...like living in a sardine can is the way he put it...population and the kind of people matter....keep denying it...

 

[geauxtohell]

evident in these two opinion pieces. WALL STREET JOURNAL
Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.
Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013....

<SNIP>

BALTIMORE SUN
Prescription: more doctors
Insurance doesn't guarantee care, so we need incentives to boost the ranks of physicians...
That 30 million Americans may soon be able to obtain health care insurance is at the core of the Senate and House health care bills.

No problem... we can get them from India.

Yeah, they've been saying we need more Doctors for about 20 years now and they still never expand the number of residency slots. That's the bottleneck. Since "Foreign Medical Graduates" are required to do residencies in the U.S., importing Drs. isn't going to fix the problem either.