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Reform Health Care Now!

As Americans, we pay more for our health care than anyone else in the
world, by far, yet we rank as one of the worst, in terms of the health
care results.  Clearly, there's a lot of fraud involved, and a lot of
people are making money from this, big time, and that's why they don't
want to talk about it, and they don't want it reformed.

Obama has noticed this, Bush (or any Republican for that matter) would
never have noticed this, never in a million years.  Yet one more
reason why you should never vote for Republicans to public office, any
office, and you should only vote for Democrats.  Democrats are
smarter, we look for solutions, while the other side only wants to
perpetuate the status quo, the miserable status quo.

What we spend on health care, each year, runs in the trillions of
dollars, $2.5 trillion to be exact.

According to a recently released report by Thomson Reuters, of that
huge, huge amount which we spend every year, it is estimated that one
third of it, about $800 billion, is in the form of waste and fraud.
What this means is that we can save at least that much every year
($800 billion!!) if the system is reformed.

See:    http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59P0L320091026?sp=true

What this invaluable study proves is that if Obama succeeds in
reforming our health care system, he will be saving us plenty of
money, while at the same time improving our health care system.

For example, as per this study, we have a largely paper-based system
that discourages the sharing of medical records, and this not only
wastes money, but it also harms your quality of care.  Caregivers
often duplicate tests, because results recorded with one provider are
not available to another, consequentally, your medical staff are
unable to give you the most appropriate treatment possible, because
the relevant history of previous treatments cannot be accessed.  This
type of reform, it is estimated, would reduce health care costs by
about 6%.

And then there are examples of unnecessary care, such as the overuse
of antibiotics and the over use of lab tests.  This type of reform, it
is estimated, would reduce health care costs by about 37%.

And then there's fraud, it makes up about 22% of healthcare waste, or
up to $200 billion a year in fraudulent Medicare claims, kickbacks for
referrals for unnecessary services and other such scams.

And then there is administrative inefficiency and redundant paperwork,
which account for about 18% of healthcare waste.

And then there are medical mistakes, which add up to a huge amount of
unnecessary spending each year, which if reformed, it is estimated
would decrease our health care costs by about 11%.

And then there are preventable conditions, such as diabetes which also
increase the cost of health care.

The average U.S. hospital spends about one-fourth of their budget on
billing and administration, compare that to our government run systems
such as the VA or Medicare that spend anywhere from 2% to 5% on such
overhead costs.

And then there are the wasteful overuses of emergency rooms, e.t.c.
Clearly, there is a LOT of fat to be trimmed from the system.  A LOT
of fat.

Americans spend more per capita and the highest percentage of GDP on
healthcare than any other country, yet we have an unhealthier
population, with more diabetes, obesity and heart disease and higher
rates of neonatal deaths than other developed nations.

Change is needed very badly.  The only people who recognize this are
the Democrats.  Republicans do not even understand this problem, in
fact, they are a part of the problem.  The people who HAVE been
benefitting from all this waste and fraud and confusion, they are all
Republicans.

Aside from this excellent study, there are plenty of other examples of
how the Republican fat cats have benefitted from this expensive and
inefficient system that we have today.  It's not the American tax
payer who benefits, but the Republican fat cats.  Such as the
Pharmaceutical companies, it is one such example.  We subsidize their
research and development, with our tax dollars, so that they can come
up with all those wonderful life saving drugs.  And they then turn
around and thank us tax payers for subsidizing their research by
jacking up the price of these drugs, with the claim that they need the
profits to do more research and development.  Well, well, well.  They
lie.  They use their profits to interfere with our democracy by
subsidizing the campaign coffers of Republicans.  They are more
committed to putting Republicans in office than in saving the lives of
the American tax payers who subsidize their industry in the form of
corporate welfare.  This is how they can perpetuate this wasteful and
corrupt system of health care that we have right now, a system that's
in desperate need of reforming, right now.

Abel Malcolm

Sources:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59P0L320091026?sp=true
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33480141/ns/health-health_care/

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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?idT19901n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

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