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Health-Care Debate: Issues for Small Business

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Han Dec 12, 2010 1:12 AM GMT In my opinion, the reform of insurance is very necessary for the small business. One reason why the average life span of Americans is lower than that of other developed countries is about 4.5 millions of Americans having not bought the health insurance，which leads to a lack of the security. It is the government’s obligation to expand medicine and health care to cover everybody, though it will result in raising taxes and discouraging the growth. I think the small businesses should cross the state lines and build trust funds as the large companies have already done. In this way the small business can form a bigger market for health care. Maybe the small business can make up some individually-owned health care plans, such as health savings accounts. At the meanwhile, we cannot forget the importance of the strict regulations and rules on health insurance companies. This will undoubtedly need some government’s assistance. Finally, the medical suppliers should be transparency so as to assure the legislation.
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johndiver Mar 7, 2010 3:01 PM GMT The problem with health care in U.S. is that most of our current public servants are more interested in serving themselves than serving their constituents. There is no need to pretend to have to re-invent the wheel here. Simply model the U.S. health care system after the ones in Canada, and U.K., and Japan, and Germany! Thank you.
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Ronni LaVine Dec 8, 2009 4:31 AM GMT You NEED the public option as competition to keep the insurance companies competitive. People who are on medicare think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It DOES work. Too many folks in this country are uninsured. They wait until they are VERY sick, and then they go the emergency rooms, where they can not be refused, and they clog the system, with high wait times, incur costs that will never be paid by the patient, and this gets passed onto the paying public.I agree their needs to be transparency and a signle cost to both insured and uninsured patients by providers. How can the hospitals charge $5000 to uninsured folks, and accept $950 from insurance companies? We also can not let illegal aliens just not have medical coverage. They will get sick, and sicken the legal citizens also. We need to address the problem of illegal aliens, but not providing medical care is inhumane, an not the answer. We can not let our poor citizens die without medical care either. A non-profit medical insurance program, either government or privately run is what is needed. Ever y business does not have to be profitable. Medical insurance is one that shouldn't be.
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Ronni LaVine Dec 8, 2009 1:07 AM GMT You NEED the public option as competition to keep the insurance companies competitive. People who are on medicare think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It DOES work. Too many folks in this country are uninsured. They wait until they are VERY sick, and then they go the emergency rooms, where they can not be refused, and they clog the system, with high wait times, incur costs that will never be paid by the patient, and this gets passed onto the paying public.I agree their needs to be transparency and a signle cost to both insured and uninsured patients by providers. How can the hospitals charge $5000 to uninsured folks, and accept $950 from insurance companies? We also can not let illegal aliens just not have medical coverage. They will get sick, and sicken the legal citizens also. We need to address the problem of illegal aliens, but not providing medical care is inhumane, an not the answer. We can not let our poor citizens die without medical care either. A non-profit medical insurance program, either government or privately run is what is needed. Ever y business does not have to be profitable. Medical insurance is one that shouldn't be.
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bumuhaha Nov 30, 2009 4:24 PM GMT i just wish the government would stay out of our lives. they can't run the postal service or the dmv without racking up costs and this wont be any different. health care reform is needed, but not like this. just eliminate wasteful programs like medicare, medicaid, and social security and the deficit will go way down.
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David E. Wade, MD Oct 30, 2009 4:12 PM GMT A necessary, major part of a workable plan is to require doctors to limit the tests, medications, treatments and surgeries to a list of the most likely diagnoses arranged in a decreasing order of probability as offered by my computer-assisted diagnosis program www.computeassistdiagnosis.blogspot.com. Without such a list, doctors tend to order costly, some dangerous, and some unnecessary tests and treatments. For example, too many doctors order a CAT scan of the head for headaches, even though it is rarely needed to make the correct diagnosis. Head CATs cost around $2000.00. Those doctors who supplement their income with unnecessary tests, medications, treatments and surgeries will undoubtedly complain but they have no legitimate argument. The other doctors will probably become more efficient, have increased incomes, and have more time to relax and enjoy their practice.
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polly badawi Aug 30, 2009 6:22 PM GMT i do agree w/ Mr. jake sterling.I pray that our health reform SHOULD focus BIG on BEING HEALTHY ,ILLNESS PREVENTION & PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION on ALL aspects,non-selective and not just on the illness itself.all of the suggestions he gave are great.I say this because I am on both side of the fence.I am an actively employed RN in a big hosp.in LI,NY.I have been blessed to have been working here in America as an RN ,in diff. states for the last 34 YRS. and mind you,I have seen the history of HEALTH in America and how it greatly affects EACH & EVERYONE'S life in this country and the WHOLE WORLD for that matter.People...fr.an infant to an older individual,who SURVIVED in his/her younger yrs.to be HEALTHY...comes to the hospital,or sees a doctor W/OUT COMPLAINTS suddenly is found to have an ILLNESS and the SAD thing is the illness is already TERMINAL!! However,like what i mentioned earlier,I am also on the other side PREVENTION.I am as well blessed to have an opportunity to be Independently Partnered w/ a corporation that believes in the TOTAL individual's HEALTH by PREVENTION all over the WORLD!
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Jake Sterling Jul 21, 2009 8:28 PM GMT No "Health Care" Bill that mandates health insurance will solve the two "primary" underlying problems with "Health Care" today.(1) US citizens have unhealthy dietary habits and spend very little time exercising. Insurance cannot cure obesity, individual choice to live healthfully is the only way.For 99.9% of people obesity results from poor choices rather than some type of disease. The diseases start when one becomes obese because their bodies cannot process the toxins out of their overtaxed systems.(2) There is no focus on "health" in our current Health Care system. It's all about fixing problems after they occure rather than educating people on what it means to be healthy, providing incentives for people to make healthy choices and covering proven anti-disease preventative care services such as massage, acupuncture, nutritional vitamins & supplements, more frequent checkups (without bureaucracy that eats up an entire work day), subsidized exercise memberships vs. merely treating conditions with drug treatments that in most cases simply cover up an issue or relieve pain (rather than solve the underlying issues).
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Jim Jul 18, 2009 12:21 AM GMT At some point the Feds are going to figure out that by restricting procedures and care that extends life, they can reduce the unfunded obligations under Social Security & Medicare. I realize that sounds like something out of 1984 (Big Brother),but it would be a double savings for a country that has to borrow money just to "keep the lights on."Think about it....
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Gabriel Jul 10, 2009 1:12 AM GMT Proof Universal Health Care is about Power and Not Helping you or Right vs Left: (1) Doesnt address pharmaceutical industry's perversion of health care system by suppressing low cost treatments and cures (2) Doesnt extensively address fraud (3) Only reduces costs by denying procedures (4) One of the "how to" ten planks of the Communist Manifesto (5) Gov't could more simply and cheaply provide universal healthcare by making health care dollars a tax credit (Universal health care overnight w/o the bureaucratic nightmare... Who would trust Pelosi or anyone like her to make their health care decisions anyway?... I really want to know b/c I have the inside scoop on some beachfront property for sale in Nevada).
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