DISQUS

harolddsouthward · 4 months ago

We hear and and read about improving health care, but little seems to mentioned that if we bring approximately 50 million people suddenly into our health insurance system, that the present system operating at capacity will be locked up if we try to render medical services to each patient at the same level and quality that we now have. The word "rationing" comes up. We are already rationed because our insurance system is trying to be efficient enough to serve all that are insured or able to pay cash and keep costs down. This rationing is readily apparent if one makes an appointment and observes that our physicians are already rushed and under great pressure. So in the opinions of some people, we are now operating beyond the capacity of our present system. I wonder whether physicians really have the time to update themselves on medical advances including procedures, drug interactions and side effects, including sufficient time to treat the whole patient, or for that matter to communicate with specialists to which patients are referred. Before falling into universal coverage, we should plan to build adequate hospital space, train more doctors and other medical people plus acquire all of the diagnostic and treatment equipment to treat these additional patients. So it looks like we should crawl into this system rather than fall into a big mess by creating abrupt changes. If recognize that we must prepare for expansion in some orderly way, we might be able to get more agreement in Congress. There is no doubt that our medical system could be made more efficient by eliminating parasitic effects. I suspect that part of our problems are created by government as well as greed. All government is inefficient by nature, even including our safety and defense.

Also this would give us more time to progress in an orderly manner. It is also debatable whether we can afford everything we want. A society is no richer than the average wealth that workers can produce. In a country like Mexico, for example, many workers are not working, either efficiently or inefficientlyand not producing wealth. Therefore that nation is poor and wants to export its people to the U.S. to avoid the pressure which might result in bloody revolution, because it cannot adequately serve it people. Therefore, we need to nourish the health of our economic system as well as our health system so that we can afford the necessities of our people

Again there is no such thing as "cheap" medicine. Of course our crazy society could re-evaluate its value system and eliminate a lot of things we do not really need to accomplish and supply the things that we really need such as a good work ethic, education, healthful living habits, moral/ethic values as well as cultural values. Harold D. Southward

harolddsouthward · 4 months ago

Thursday, August 20 article in Journal: Wife: "Lawyer Not Himself After Arrest"
That could be for many reasons. By observing his white hair, I wonder if this gentleman is not taking some sort of statin drut to control his cholesterol, or example. There are many reports on the internet which perceive that in addition to the outstanding benefits, a minority of people percieve one or more of the experiences of transient total loss of memory, loss of recent memory, loss of balance, dizziness, fatigue, muscle aches, muscle pains, kidney damage, muscle damage, liver damage etc. This is all on the internet. I believe that a lot of this is real, however one must make allowance for quacks, nuts, people hawking useless supplements/drugs as well as the evaluation of statements made from stable laymen and very well qualified medical doctors. When a drug may be causing side effects or interactions with food or other drugs and when one stops taking the drug and these things disappear, the individual could conclude that most probably the drug is the culprit. These experiences and not replace sound medical studies involving statistics, however these studies are also based upon unrecognized assumed assumptions and the like.
I know from personal experience that a statin over a period of about 3.5 yearsI took was probably responsible of a number of the effects listed above. I suspect some of the effects may have been either permanent or taking a significantly long time for recovery. But it is very difficult to establish the truth about anything. However, I suggest that you look at the internet on articles and forums related to medications and health as patients are ultimately responsible for their own health, not somebody else, including the "experts: who have precious little time to spend on patients or do necessary updating of this complex medical mess that we are experiencing, mainly because medicine today is very complex and very challenging for the bor the overworked "experts" Harold D. Southward

CarmelaBear · 4 months ago

There's so much talk on this subject all over the media. Many of the terms I'm encountering are unfamiliar. For instance:

pooling, employer or individual mandates, rescission, portability, health insurance cooperative, bundling, bending the curve, doughnut hole, comparative effectiveness studies, end-of-life care, public option, single payer, defensive medicine.

What do these terms mean?

JoMa · 3 months ago

One of your earlier questions addressed Medicare and Medicare Advantage. My wife and I pay for Medicare Advantage plans operated by Presbyterian Health Services. I understand that Presbyterian is a not-for-profit organization. If HR3200 seeks to ban or phase out Medicare Advantage plans what would they be replaced with? Should I anticipate searching around for Medicare Supplemental plan or just wait to see what happens with all of this.

Incidentally, the seniors I speak with are frightened that Medicare will be "messed with" and spill over these concerns with loud opposition to any Single -Payer or "Government Option" plan. They point out that once the Government is "in charge", it can change anything at will and at any time - just as it wants to do with Medicare.

If some of the changes being proposed are "beneficial" to seniors, the Administration is certainly not selling that aspect. I think I heard one discussion on a news panel talking about "filling the donut hole" in the drug prescription plan.

monicabellina · 2 months ago

I didn't read anybody mentionning a raw vegan diet as an alterative.
I'll be brief, I'm vegetarian for more than 23 years, vegan for 8 years and raw-vegan for 4 1/2 years. I'm a fitness instructor and young dance students in their 20 have a hard time following me physicaly.
B12 vitamine can be produced by the intestinal flora if our intestins have a good environment and it can even be produced by bacteria in the gums.
I won't explain much here, but just that cooked vegan food is unhealthy as well as non vegetarian food. But raw food with lots of greens has more nutrients than any of the other diets and ithout the negative consequences.
I know that I'm not giving enough arguments here but just get informed.
If you want more information just check " new diet trial " nothing else
Your health is important keep it safe.