Health care
Hot Air Blog Archive VIP Treatment Under Nationalized Health …
Im sure everyone reading this post knows that Japan has socialized medicine (national health care, single-payer, however you want to call it). Its not as draconian as the NHS in the United Kingdom or the Canadian national and …
Rush Limbaugh: Heart, Health Care System are OK! – The Hollywood …
Rush Limbaugh says theres nothing wrong with his heart. Or the nations health care system, for that matter.
Better habits can help trim bloated health care system McClatchy
While debate remains in Congress over health care legislation, wellness advocates are hopeful that less controversial provisions promoting healthy living will remain in any bill that reaches the presidents desk. extra description.
ObamaCare: Should Republicans Have Negotiated on Health Care …
Writing for Forbes, Bruce Bartlett puts forth an interesting hypothesis that healthcare legislation could have been made better (hopefully he meant to write less destructive) if the GOP had been willing to compromise with Democrats: …
Pajamas Media Will Health Care Reform Tip Senate Race to GOP in …
Properly waged by the Republican, Scott Brown, it could become a perfect storm of the health care debate. Sissy Willis proposes that it be made a referendum on the potential national catastrophe being masticated by Congress, …
PoliGazette On the Constitutionality of Health Care Mandates
Senator Orrin Hatch has teamed up with two conservative legal commentators to summarize the battle plan for a Constitutional challenge to the health care plan which Democrats appear posed to cobble together out of differing House and …
Rush Limbaughs Health Care Experience and The American Health …
Many bloggers are mocking Rush Limbaughs claim that there is nothing wrong with the health care system based upon his limited experience from his recent hospitalization. I am glad for him that his cardiac status is sound. …
Hatch: Healthcare bill rich for challenges on constitutionality …
If this healthcare is oooo important and needed, why so many deals to get it passed? I am a registered Democrat and will never vote for another Democrat in a national election again if this is what they actually pass. …
Matthew Yglesias The Health Care System Should Give People Good …
And that likelihood owes very little to the health care system and a great deal to the bad choices American individuals make. If you eat too much, exercise too little, drink too much, smoke, take drugs, fail to wear a seat belt or …
Why do libs complane that they can’t do jobs they love— if they don’t even work, bc of insurance?
Okay so I’m 16 years old and I got a nose job/rhino/septoplasty over the winter break.
I had it because of medical issues (I broke my nose twice and had an infection when I broke it for the second time), so this was mostly because of health issues BUT, I had my huge bump flattened also (what blocked my breathing). So it is considered as a “plastic surgery” also… My question is:
When I’m going to be back at school, is everyone going to make fun of me? Do people really care about others looks?
I didn’t really have a choice, I would’ve suffocated if i didn’t go through this,
But everyone at my school is used seeing me with a huge bump, almost nobody but my friend knows the real reason. and I’m only 16
Years old… I CERTAINLY DON’T WANT TO GO AROUND EVERYONE AND TELL EACH PERSON that I had it for medical reasons… I’m so scared of being made fun of… I just know everyone is like going to stare and call me superficial or shallow… What should I do? ): I really don’t want to be “the girl who got a nose job” , “the plastic girl” or “the fake self conscious one”. It seems like I’m over exaggerating but this is high-school 
YES, my nose looks WAYYY better now.
I got a nose job and…?
1. Can’t you see? Don’t you care
I want to die?
Don’t you listen? Can’t you hear
My silent cry?
Won’t you turn? Can’t you hold
Me to your heart?
Are you afraid of what might follow
Once you start? Would you rather not believe
I’m in such pain
That all your sense and good advice
Must be in vain? Would you rather tell yourself
I’ll be OK,
And all this adolescent angst
Will go away? Ah! Would I also swim across
This lake alone!
But if you cannot swim with me,
I know I’ll drown. 2. Mental illness doesn’t touch the soul
Even as it punishes the mind.
None can will the wanderings of the wind,
Though winter come, and tempests take their toll.
All who suffer innocent shall find
Love waiting by the window, well and whole,
Inside the heart, where it has full control,
Longing ever, ever unresigned.
Let go your fear, and follow, then, your path,
Neither more nor less constrained than those
Embraced by gods less ruthless in their wrath.
Sing bravely down the windrows of your woes,
Savoring a grace that comes and goes. 3. I’m sorry I can’t tell you what
I’m sure you’d rather hear,
But there’s a burden in my heart
I can no longer bear.
There’s an anger I must cross
Before I come to you
And make my peace with who you are,
And try your soul anew. I know I wasn’t what you wanted
When you wanted me,
A healthy, happy baby girl
You could raise easily. I was born impaired, and you
Have never understood
That what I am is whole and fair
And beautiful and good. You were sorry, first for me
And then for you, and wept,
But I would not be me without
The fact that I am autistic. I am a gift to celebrate
And not a cause to grieve.
As a child this was what
I needed to believe. I needed but a different road
To reach the common goal,
But you decided there were things
I couldn’t do at all. And rather than accept what life
Had given in its grace,
You looked at what life had withheld
And turned from its embrace. Ah, Mother! How you injured me
By what you would not own!
To love myself I had to leave
And make my way alone, And have my children in the course
Of what I would become,
But always, always looking back
To where I had no home. 4. Although we have to be apart,
We’ll always be together,
Close enough in mind and heart
To manage any weather.
Reality is often bleak,
But love remains inside
A glass house on a mountain peak,
The wintry world beside. Love can build its own four walls
And heat its own small room.
Through icy winds and blinding squalls,
Love can be in bloom. Though continents drift far downstream
And mountains disappear,
And life dissolve into a dream,
Our love will still be here,
For you my mum, the one who had me to early, to early you could never love me.
I may be with my grandparents but im always with you, for now i will always love you and it shall never change for you are my blood and soul it’s just you never knew how much you ment to me. 5. why did you leave me i loved you so,
You were my mum and now a stranger
From the crowed.
I thought you loved me with all your heart,
But now i guess you only hated me,
With all that pain you caused me
How come i still want you,
All i wanted was a mum, one who would watch me and tell me whats right and wrong,
But you couldn’t even walk down the street, not even to the bus,
I would go to school with horrid cuts, yet i would forgive you and ask for only one hug,
Yet agian you would shout and scream and ring them horrid people,
The ones you call friends who hurt your daughter, mum, im your own flesh and blood!
Yet you would ask for anyone who would look after me why you would go down the pub,
One day when i was a lonley baby you screamed at my face for crying, asking for my nappy changed
Yet, i guess it was my fault agian for i was to loud for you and was always in the way,
I should of been quit then you would of excepted me, but insted of thinking twise i would go ahead,
I would cause pain to you and would always annoiy you,
Yet i now stand and think was it my fault or was it you to lazey for me?
But still i beg for you back as i live with your parents the one’s who made sure i was warm and had no nappy to full, the one’s who got me christmas presants and excepted my illness and who i was,
My cry’s for help wern’t loud enough for you especialy when you were lying drunk when i was in my cot, aloun and sad and hungry and more, but now i pitty to you yet i ask for your love and wish i could buy it, as all i want from you is a hug for only 3 seconds to show some compasion, but it is not just some cheesey line from spiderman, it comes from my heart that would kill me if i siad it out loud, so many question’s i want to ask yet bottle to the end of life,
Mum i realy do love you and i wish you could love me to from the bottom of any broken heart this line would be siad in a poem or a story but i would starve anand die just for you i only want you exception, im only 13 so hope you like it
What do you think, it’s about my mental health?
I am asking for anyone who believes in prayers or in miracles to please pray for my husband, who has cancer and is in my care through hospice because the esophageal cancer that reoccured into his brachial plexus causing his entire shoulder, arm, and hand unusable and in unbearable pain, which I am trying to manage for him. His radiation doctor said he doesn’t need to make any more follow-up appointments because the treatments didn’t eradicate the cancer which went into his lymph nodes in his neck and he doesn’t know where the cancer will go next. He has rapidly lost weight and much muscle mass. Two years ago he was 215 lbs. and two weeks ago he was 122 lbs., he can’t eat much and I’m in desperate need to ask for prayers for a miracle that his health be restored. I know millions are suffering with all kinds of various illnesses and in dire need of healings, miracles and cures but I feel like I’m watching my beloved husband die in front of my eyes. He is 61 and I’m pleading for anyone to pray, as I’ll pray for you all as well. Thank you all who answer.
I’M ASKING FOR A PRAYER REQUEST FOR MY HUSBAND?
1) amnesty?
2) free Health care for illegals?
3) No more raids? this is going to be yet another joke…
So what idiotic immigration reforms are the dems going to propose?
A few good examples being their near neighbour Canada, Britain and most of Europe where this system works well without any complaints Are these countries all wrong or is America the only that is right? IBREDD.. I now live in Bulgaria where our (British) health care even covers me here. Now hows that for a great system and to add to that because I have now reached retirement age it now costs me nothing. Beat that.!In Britain everyone that is working has a couple of pounds a week deducted from their salery until they reach retirement age A few years ago I had a major operation for cancer plus 2 heart attacks all of which I have made a full recovery and it cost me nothing. I have nothing but praise for the professional and caring treatment that I recieved. America think again .
Why are so many Americans against Obama’s health care plan when it works so well in so many other countries?
OK I was reading some questions regarding the new Health Care bill that the American govt is about to pass and reading all the comments and honestly I dont get it. Im Canadian so you understand where Im coming from. I work and so does my husband and we live an average middle class life. We have insurance for things like Dentists, Eye Doctors and to cut down the cost of prescription medicines.
I can rest assured that if my children needed an operation or treatment they’ll get it with all the up to date technology and medicine without having to worry about how Im going to pay for it or if my insurance company will approve of it!
I have friends of mine whose daughter was born with special needs, and their little girl has to have physical therapy, occupational therapy, a neurologist, a nutritionist-she’s on a special diet for her epilepsy – now as she’s entered school she needs an Educational assistant, a Speech Pathologist and still of course regular visits to the doctors – and ALL that is PAID FOR! All that with our taxes they can also be assured that all the treatment their little girl needs she’ll have it without having to worry about how the heck they will pay it for! I guess my question is why are americans or some americans dont get the Universal Healthcare? And why are they agains it? Of course our healthcare system isnt without flaws or critics but I think it’s the best of the two. I think because they’re rich they want different treatment and dont want to be like everybody else-
And how about your fellow americans coming up here for free healthcare?@ Ron R: yes, but with the same thought – who’s paying for kid’s schooling? If people have the money they should send their kids to private school-you’re paying for everybody’s schooling w/your taxes-Actually I did live in the US – a long time ago – before kids. And as paying what you need when u need is good-but what happens when u need something big-important operation/treatment? (expensive)Your insurance will pay for it?? Are u sure? And as for Govt involvement-I dont feel like the govt rules my life at all-and Im the first one to criticize the Canadian healthcare system-it DOES have Flaws-HOWEVER SO DOES THE AMERICAN ONE!! AND i STILL BELIEVE THE CANADIAN SYSTEM IS BETTER-I HAVE LIVED IN BOTH COUNTRIES!
Health Care debate-never ending?
Face? I am not even fat, i weighed 130 5′7 so eat it. I am the smallest one in my family because i take care of my healthi have only gained about 10 extra lbs and everyone tells me not to worry but then for some reason my mom thinks it will be ve3ry hard, i eat healthy and plan to start working out when I am allowed to. she has been over weight the majority of her life
Why does my mom tell me its even harder to lose baby weight when everyone else says it will come off fast?
I’m a cherrokee indian, and I live in Washington state. I was told there was something in Fife that might give me some health care because I really dont have the money to pay for it. Is there any a Fife tribunal place or hospital. Or is there a link with all the indian health care places on the net somewhere? thanks
Need to Locate Indian Tribunal and/or Hospital in Fife, WA.?
Are they also going to try to take away all Medicare and social security, saying that is unconstitutional as well? Probably not, because they need the old people’s votes. Especially the ones who are scared to have a “colored” president. health care reform is the same concept as Medicare and SS. The GOP don’t have a chance….
When the GOP try to sue and state that the health care reform is unconstitutional?
Bad title for this question I know. I have never really had to go to the doctor for anything, ANYTHING. Recently I went to go see one because my energy level has been horrible, and I am always fatigued. After seeing the doctor, and getting lab work done, I had spent almost a $1000 dollars. But still, I’m okay with that, if its like one visit every six months or so, so what. Anyways, they found my Testosterone levels to be really really low. So they put me on a medication called androgel. Let me tell you, I can only get 15 days worth of this medication at a time, but every time I go to Walgreens to get a refill, I spend hundreds. Tonight when I picked it up it cost me $268.41. I called everywhere to see about health insurance, even though I only need help with prescriptions. I dont know what to do. I dont need all out full fledge health insurance. But apparently if I tried to get it anyway, I would be denied due to a pre-existing condition ((WTF))!! Apparently the only people who can qualify for health insurance are those who dont need it to begin with. And those who need it are denied because of a pre-existing condition. They are no programs that help with prescriptions that I know of, that dont require tons and tons of paperwork, audits, background investigations, and appointment after appointment. I am really upset and am lost with regard to getting the medication my doctor says I need, reduced in price. I cant afford almost $600 a month. But if even if I try to get health care, i will be denied. Could someone please help me out : ) Thanks for checking out my question
I dont have health insurance because I never needed it. Plus I have always been responsible with my money
Health care (often healthcare in British English), is the treatment and management of illnesses of the elderly, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations. The definition of to recognize, tough to define,” Albany Times-Union November 12, 2009.
Before the term health care became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. The social and political issue of access to healthcare in the US has led to public debate and confusing use of terms such as health care (medical management of illness or disease), health insurance (reimbursement of health care costs), and the public health (the collective state and range of health in a population). The public health is related most to economic development and wealth distribution, and health insurance is a business which both provides and restricts reimbursement for healthcare itself in the event of disease, or in access to of medical healthcare in individual health-seeking, – promoting or – maintaining behaviours.
The delivery of modern health care depends on an expanding group of trained professionals coming together as an interdisciplinary team.
The health-care industry incorporates several sectors that are dedicated to providing services and products dedicated to improving the health of individuals. According to market classifications of industry such as the Global Industry Classification Standard and the Industry Classification Benchmark the health-care industry includes health care equipment & services and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences. The particular sectors associated with these groups are: biotechnology, diagnostic substances, drug delivery, drug manufacturers, hospitals, medical equipment and instruments, diagnostic laboratories, nursing homes, providers of health care plans and home health care.
According to government classifications of Industry, which are mostly based on the United Nations system, the International Standard Industrial Classification, health care generally consists of Hospital activities, Medical and dental practice activities, and other human health activities. The last class consists of all activities for human health not performed by hospitals or by medical doctors or dentists. This involves activities of, or under the supervision of, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, scientific or diagnostic laboratiories, pathology clinics, ambulance, nursing home, or other para-medical practitioners in the field of optometry, hydrotherapy, medical massage, music therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropody, homeopathy, chiropractice, acupuncture, etc.
Top impact factor academic journals in the health care field include Health Affairs and Milbank Quarterly. The New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the American Medical Association are more general journals.
Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research, applied research, or translational research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. Medical research can be divided into two general categories: the evaluation of new treatments for both safety and efficacy in what are termed clinical trials, and all other research that contributes to the development of new treatments. The latter is termed preclinical research if its goal is specifically to elaborate knowledge for the development of new therapeutic strategies. A new paradigm to biomedical research is being termed translational research, which focuses on iterative feedback loops between the basic and clinical research domains to accelerate knowledge translation from the bedside to the bench, and back again.
In terms of pharmaceutical R&D spending, Europe spends a little less that the United States (22.50bn compared to 27.05bn in 2006) and there is less growth in European R&D spending. Pharmaceuticals and other medical devices are the leading high technology exports of Europe and the United States. However, the United States dominates the biopharmaceutical field, accounting for the three quarters of the worlds biotechnology revenues and 80% of world R&D spending in biotechnology.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized United Nations agency which acts as a coordinator and researcher for public health around the world. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations. The WHO’s constitution states that its mission “is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.” Its major task is to combat disease, especially key infectious diseases, and to promote the general health of the peoples of the world. Examples of its work include years of fighting smallpox. In 1979 the WHO declared that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be completely eliminated by deliberate human design. The WHO is nearing success in developing vaccines against malaria and schistosomiasis and aims to eradicate polio within the next few years. The organization has already endorsed the world’s first official HIV/AIDS Toolkit for Zimbabwe from October 3, 2006, making it an international standard.
The WHO is financed by contributions from member states and from donors. In recent years the WHO’s work has involved more collaboration, currently around 80 such partnerships, with NGOs and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as with foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Voluntary contributions to the WHO from national and local governments, foundations and NGOs, other UN organizations, and the private sector (including pharmaceutical companies), now exceed that of assessed contributions (dues) from its 193 member nations.
Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to scarcity in the allocation of health and health care. Broadly, health economists study the functioning of the health care system and the private and social causes of health-affecting behaviors such as smoking.
A seminal 1963 article by Kenneth Arrow, often credited with giving rise to the health economics as a discipline, drew conceptual distinctions between health and other goals. Factors that distinguish health economics from other areas include extensive government intervention, intractable uncertainty in several dimensions, asymmetric information, and externalities. Governments tend to regulate the health care industry heavily and also tend to be the largest payer within the market. Uncertainty is intrinsic to health, both in patient outcomes and financial concerns. The knowledge gap that exists between a physician and a patient can prevent the patient from accurately describing his symptoms or enable the physician to prescribe unnecessary but profitable services; these imbalances lead to market failures resulting from asymmetric information. Externalities arise frequently when considering health and health care, notably in the context of infectious disease. For example, making an effort to avoid catching a cold, or practising safer sex, affects people other than the decision maker.
The scope of health economics is neatly encapsulated by Alan William’s “plumbing diagram” dividing the discipline into eight distinct topics:
Consuming just under 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country’s economy. In 2001, health care consumed 8.4 per cent of GDP across the OECD countries with the United States (13.9%), Switzerland (10.9%), and Germany (10.7%) being the top three.
The United States and Canada account for 48% of world pharmaceutical sales, while Europe, Japan, and all other nations account for 30%, 9%, and 13%, respectively. United States accounts for the three quarters of the worlds biotechnology revenues.
Social health insurance is where a nation’s entire population is eligible for health care coverage, and this coverage and the services provided are regulated. In almost every country, state or municipality with a government health care system a parallel private, and usually for-profit, system is allowed to operate. This is sometimes referred to as two-tier health care. The scale, extent, and funding of these private systems is variable.
A traditional view is that improvements in health result from advancements in medical science. The medical model of health focuses on the eradication of illness through diagnosis and effective treatment. In contrast, the social model of health places emphasis on changes that can be made in society and in people’s own lifestyles to make the population healthier. It defines illness from the point of view of the individual’s functioning within their society rather than by monitoring for changes in biological or physiological signs.
The United States currently operates under a mixed market health care system. Government sources (federal, state, and local) account for 45% of U. S. health care expenditures. Private sources account for the remainder of costs, with 38% of people receiving health coverage through their employers and 17% arising from other private payment such as private insurance and out-of-pocket co-pays. Opponents of government intervention into the market generally believe that such intervention distorts pricing as government agents would be operating outside of the corporate model and the principles of market discipline; they have less short and medium-term incentives than private agents to make purchases that can generate revenues and avoid bankruptcy. Health system reform in the United States usually focuses around three suggested systems, with proposals currently underway to integrate these systems in various ways to provide a number of health care options. First is single payer, a term meant to describe a single agency managing a single system, as found in most modernized countries as well as some states and municipalities within the United States. Second are employer or individual insurance mandates, with which the state of Massachusetts has experimented. Finally, there is consumer-driven health, in which systems, consumers, and patients have more control of how they access care. This is argued to provide a greater incentive to find cost-saving health care approaches. Critics of consumer-driven health say that it would benefit the healthy but be insufficient for the chronically sick, much as the current system operates. Over the past thirty years, most of the nation’s health care has moved from the second model operating with not-for-profit institutions to the third model operating with for-profit institutions; the greater problems with this approach have been the gradual deregulation of HMOs resulting in fewer of the promised choices for consumers, and the steady increase in consumer cost that has marginalized consumers and burdened states with excessive urgent health care costs that are avoided with consumers have adequate access to preventive health care.
A few states have taken serious steps toward universal health care coverage, most notably Minnesota, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with recent examples being the Massachusetts 2006 Health Reform Statute and Connecticut’s SustiNet plan to provide quality, affordable health care to state residents.
The politics of health care depends largely on which country one is in. Current concerns in England, for instance, revolve around the use of private finance initiatives to build hospitals which it is argued costs taxpayers more in the long run. In Germany and France, concerns are more based on the rising cost of drugs to the governments. In Brazil, an important political issue is the breach of intellectual property rights, or patents, for the domestic manufacture of antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
The South African government, whose population sets the record for HIV infections, came under pressure for its refusal to admit there is any connection with AIDS because of the cost it would have involved. In the United States 12% to 16% of the citizens are still unable to afford health insurance. State boards and the Department of Health regulate inpatient care to reduce the national health care deficit. To tackle the problems of the perpetually increasing number of uninsured, and costs associated with the US health care system, President Barack Obama says he favors the creation of a universal health care system. However, New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman said that Obama’s plan would not actually provide universal coverage. (In contrast, Dennis Kucinich, an early candidate who did not get on the ballot, supported a single-payer system.) Factcheck. org alleges that Obama’s predicted savings were exaggerated. In contrast, the state of Oregon and the city of San Francisco are both examples of governments that adopted universal healthcare systems for strictly fiscal reasons.
Health care systems are designed to meet the health care needs of target populations. There are a wide variety of health care systems around the world. In some countries, the health care system planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others planning is made more centrally among governments, trade unions, charities, religious, or other co-ordinated bodies to deliver planned health care services targeted to the populations they serve. However, health care planning has often been evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Article 1: Freedom, Egalitarianism, Dignity and BrotherhoodArticle 2: Universality of rights
Article 1 and 2: Right to freedom from discrimination Article 3: Right to life, liberty and security of person Article 4: Freedom from slavery Article 5: Freedom from torture and cruel and unusual punishment Article 6: Right to personhood Article 7: Equality before the law Article 8: Right to effective remedy from the law Article 9: Freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention and exile Article 10: Right to a fair trial Article 11.1: Presumption of innocence Article 11.2: Prohibition of retrospective law Article 12: Right to privacy Article 13: Freedom of movement Article 14: Right of asylum Article 15: Right to a nationality Article 16: Right to marriage and family life Article 17: Right to property Article 18: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Article 19: Freedom of opinion and expression Article 20.1: Freedom of assembly Article 20.2: Freedom of association Article 21.1: Right to participation in government Article 21.2: Right of equal access to public office Article 21.3: Right to universal suffrage
Article 1 and 2: Right to freedom from discrimination Article 22: Right to social security Article 23.1: Right to work Article 23.2: Right to equal pay for equal work Article 23.3: Right to just remuneration Article 23.4: Right to join a trade union Article 24: Right to rest and leisure Article 25.1: Right to an adequate standard of living Article 25.2: Right to special care and assistance for mothers and children Article 26.1: Right to education Article 26.2: Human rights education Article 26.3: Right to choice of education Article 27.1: Right to participate in culture Article 27.2: Right to intellectual property
Article 28: Social order Article 29.1: Social responsibility Article 29.2: Limitations of human rights Article 29.3: The supremacy of the purposes and principles of the United NationsArticle 30: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
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