Universal Health Coverage Attracts New Support

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Cover all the uninsured without spending a penny

November 8, 2007

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Expanding healthcare to the uninsured via the vehicle of private insurance will only increase costs without increases in efficiency.  Candidates are beholden to special interests and therefore propose bandaid approaches to health insurance reform without getting at the root of the problem. 

An idea whose time has come?

November 8, 2007

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Interesting to see all sorts of groups rallyin to support universal health coverage.

Universal Health Coverage by Federal Government- A Big Mistake

November 8, 2007

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

    There has been a lot of press about Universal Health Coverage as a Federal Mandate. Giving power to any government entity of this system becomes a political pawn game and will ultimately doom the system. Requiring people who choose not to purchase healthcare insurance to buy it is not the way a society that embraces freedom and individual responsibility should act.

The emFasis on the wrong syLabble....

November 8, 2007

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Clearly, heathcare coverage in America is a concern for each citizen as it's costs, borne by the system are crippling to all facets of society.  The problem is Part A (hospitalization coverage) versus the cost of outpatient treatment.  Currently, Medicare Part A is growing at a greater than 45% linear curve since 1993.  In short, this 17 billion dollar program has huge flaws Congress and the Administration are afraid to touch.  Part B (out patient medicine, physicians office visits, DME, etc...) is nearly flat.  Doctors get paid less now than they did 10 years ago unless they see the patient in the hospital.  We have the ability to treat many of the problems seen on an outpatient basis, encourage providers to treat patients as outpatients more efficiently and consequently save the entire system money regardless of universal coverage or private.  I am very afraid of unbridled universal coverage without significant hospitalization change in Part A Medicare.

What will be the resultant effects of Universal Health Coverage?

November 7, 2007

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

The Health insurance industry is anticipating a profit windfall with the Universal Health Coverage proposals. Where is that money coming from? Will it come from the Federal government? Or, will the money come from a segment of society that has less influence on this debate? Could it be that the industries with powerful lobbyists are trying to pull a fast one?