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Subject:
[SpinLyme] US Healtcare Costs and "Who's going to pay for it?"
Date:
Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:14:07 PM
Big Comprehensive article in the Courant below.
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No one is going to get anywhere with any sound solution to
US health until all of the crime is exposed, and for that we
need attorneys who are not arrogant.
A near physical impossibility.
Kaiser is deeply involved in Lyme crime, and the burden
of that is the numerous results we get from Lyme:
MS, ALS, Dementia, Lupus, and the like. All those New
Great Imitator things. The relation of Lyme to MS could be
as high as 40% according to a very credible set of studies
performed in POLAND, which debunked SUNY's Pat Coyle,
who turned coat on us.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=7796837&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum
Coyle actually first defined the disease with the proper nomenclature.
People in the Lyme underworld think she was threatened.
Even more deeply responsible for all this Lyme crime, is Yale,
since they own the patient for the most accurate, earliest and
best test for Early Lyme and Late Lyme, regardless of MS or arthritis
presentation.
But we're not allowed to use it.
It's the best test, the earliest test, and could possibly prevent
these later devastating illnesses, but Yale is keeping it a secret.
Yale staff do not want to be thrown in prison for NOT using this test
for their assay of LYMErix, because they knew LYMErix did not
prevent Lyme.
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Then there's all the crime in BigPharma which no one knows
the extent of, except someone who knows what the FDA is all
about and who also knows what BigPharma is all about.
FDA does not do their job, so really, they should be shut down.
Like the CT State police, the only way to get rid of the corruption
is to fire everyone, create a new entity, and don't hire any of the
old creeps back. The same applies to the CDC, although they
are so criminally incompetent they should just be shut down and
not reconstituted.
The third aspect of crime and incompetence in healthcare is
Kaiser training MDs, and Kaiser and their criminal ilk having any
input at *all* into policy or "evidence based guidelines." Can't we
see
that if an insurance company has any role in the development of a
"guideline" it is going to suit their bottom line? This is criminal.
Lyme is not the only disease which has had the bar risen for
diagnosis.
Lupus was Lupus, until it became antiphospholipid syndrome.
The bar was raised on diagnostic levels of APA (antiphospholipid
antibodies) in Lupus. More people died. More fetuses died.
WHO DO YOU WANT TO GUESS HAD A ROLE IN NOT DIAGNOSING
LUPUS UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE FOR THEIR TO BE A FUNCTIONAL
OUTCOME?
Black people have a different genetic makeup. Men are different
from women genetically and physiologically, but GUESS WHO
says "one size fits all" with vaccines?
This is crime, but we haven't the brains in either physicians
or lawyers in this country, nor apparently the will, despite so many
well
known examples of fraud and profiteering. I can predict that even if
there were a new wave of popularity in picking off corruption in the
medical field the moron FBI and cops will go after the small
time crooks like Vladimir Coric.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vladimir+coric&btnG=Google+Search
The guy with the perjuring son with the same name who works
for- who else? Yale.
Ya wanna win, ya gotta get smart, but even more important
these crazy "law enforcement officers" have to stop acting like
cowards and chewing the asses of the crime victims instead of the
real perps.
Ya gotta have the balls to take on the BIG BOYS lawyers who
are employed by BigPharma and BigInsurance. Cuz they
play REALLY NASTY. Just ask Andy Vickery.
http://justiceseekers.com/
He had to deal with Pfizer lawyers and he was shocked and
reviled at how low these corporate lawyers will go.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
courant.com
http://www.courant.com/business/nationworld/ats-ap_business13jan20,0,2927683.story?page=2&coll=sns-business-headlines
Talk of Universal Health Care Grows
By ROBERT TANNER
AP National Writer
January 20 2007, 2:18 PM EST
Health care for all -- an elusive goal that has tantalized presidents
and
governors for decades -- is roaring back this year with ambitious
proposals in a
handful of prominent states.
The promise: Cover millions of uninsured adults and children. Improve
the
quality of care at hospitals and doctor's offices. Rein in rising costs
that are
eating up workers' wages, company profits and state budgets.
The problem: Someone's got to pay. And getting those with a stake in
health care
-- doctors, insurers, hospitals, workers, employers, government -- to
agree on
who and how much won't be easy.
The most influential effort is undoubtedly in California, the nation's
most
populous state, where GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month
introduced a
bold plan that would provide health care coverage for 6.5 million
residents without insurance.
With less fanfare, Pennsylvania has proposed a similar step and a
half-dozen
more states are actively debating the idea. All are building on a
Massachusetts
program that began this year -- it likens health insurance to car
insurance,
making it a requirement for everyone.
If successful, the states could carve out a long-sought path for
universal
health care, a goal that's been politically dead since the Clinton
administration. But that's a big "if" -- passage won't be easy and the
programs
aren't cheap.
The Associated Press looked at proposals in front of state legislatures
to break
down the contentious issue.
* __
WHY HEALTH CARE IS HOT NOW: It's been talked about and debated for
years, but
wide agreement is emerging over the problem of health care's rising
costs, which
swallow wage increases and have threatened to overtake state spending
on primary
education. Businesses say they're at a disadvantage with global
competitors.
The system can't survive another few years on the same track without
collapsing,
said Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat.
"If California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts prove it's doable -- and
Maine
has already to some extent -- it will create an unstoppable momentum,"
he said.
Maine brought the issue back in 2003, with a law seeking to provide
universal
coverage.
Massachusetts' law last year -- guaranteeing universal coverage --
jump-started
the action in state capitols.
In the last month, governors, legislative leaders and blue-ribbon
commissions
have declared universal coverage an attainable goal in Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota,
New Mexico, Oregon, Washington state and Wisconsin. Massachusetts and
Vermont
are to put their programs into effect this year, while Maine is
tweaking its
existing system. Many more are considering significant expansions.
* __
HOW UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE WOULD WORK: The overall goal is to
get
everyone, or nearly everyone, health insurance. The plans also aim to
cut costs by improving efficiency, and to improve the quality of care.
The
plans being discussed would accomplish that in the following ways.
* All would build on the existing public and private insurance system
to provide
insurance and health care access to most or all the uninsured in their
states --
now some 46 million people nationwide.
* All aim to expand existing Medicaid programs to cover more of the
poor and
working poor who don't have insurance. They would require employers who
don't
provide insurance to do so. They seek some financial contributions or
savings
from doctors and insurers.
* They would establish a state mechanism that creates an insurance
product, or
sets up a marketplace, so that small businesses and individuals can get
reasonably priced insurance.
* Some plans mandate that every individual must have insurance -- not
unlike
mandatory auto insurance for every driver -- with financial help for
those too
poor to buy it outright.
* __
THE BIGGEST BARRIER: The biggest stumbling block is money. Who pays?
In California, doctors and hospitals are already unhappy with
Schwarzenegger's
plan to levy a 2 percent fee on doctors and a 4 percent fee on
hospitals. He
would cap profits for insurers by requiring that 85 percent of revenue
be
devoted to treating patients: That idea alone sent the stock of health
insurer
Wellpoint Inc., with 34 million members, down 3.5 percent.
"He made enemies of every doctor and hospital in California when he did
that,"
said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health,
a
consortium of companies trying to lower health costs.
In California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, state leaders
said they
were spreading the pain to every player, so every critic should stay on
board.
"That's always been the biggest challenge in health care reform. There
is no
pain-free solution," said Drew Altman, president of the Henry J. Kaiser
Family
Foundation, a Washington-based health group.
* __
CHANCE OF SUCCESS: The next few months will determine whether
enthusiasts like Rendell or Schwarzenegger win the
argument.
In Minnesota, GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty warns that simply focusing on
getting
everyone insurance ignores deeper problems, even as some leaders of the
Legislature's new Democratic majority say this is the year for
universal health
care.
"Many policymakers around the country are so fixated on more access,
they're
losing sight of the need to simultaneously focus on cost and quality,"
Pawlenty
said. "Expanding access to a broken system is no solution. ... In the
long run,
that will be a failure."
He wants universal coverage, he insisted, but warns that government
can't end up
with the bill. His plan would broaden coverage to more uninsured
children and
have the state create a marketplace where insurers can provide a more
affordable
product. It wouldn't mandate that everyone get coverage.
There are even deeper philosophical differences in other parts of the
country,
particularly more conservative states which have emphasized cutting
Medicaid costs rather than expanding coverage.
But the new ideas are even getting an airing there.
In Florida, where the biggest health care change under former Gov. Jeb
Bush
emphasized cutting costs of Medicaid, the new surgeon general talked
enthusiastically of Massachusetts' universal health coverage law -- and
new GOP
Gov. Charlie Crist said he wouldn't rule out considering something
along those
lines.
* __
FLASH IN THE PAN? How the Massachusetts program and high-profile
proposals do
also will decide the staying power of health care as a political issue.
After
President Clinton's health care reform attempt failed in the 1990s, the
issue
went dormant for years.
"Once you pass these programs and start the implementing, it only gets
harder,"
said Maine Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat. "Because then you're talking
about
real dollars and real decisions."
Maine hasn't met its ambitious goals, with fewer businesses signing on
to the
state program. But Baldacci and state leaders are trying to fix the
flaws.
"Hopefully," he said, "the chambers of commerce, the unions, the
businesses will
recognize we need a solution."
Copyright 2007 Associated Press
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