NaughtyGeek
Golden Member
So, after reading through numerous HC reform threads, what is abundantly clear is that there seems to be no rational approach to solving our healthcare crisis being pursued or the approaches being taken are missing key points so lets start with the first thing you need to do to solve a problem, identify it.
1) Rising Costs
2) 18% Uninsured rate (or therabouts)
3) Lack of coverage or loss of coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions
a.)Claim denial for seemingly unrelated clerical or informational errors.
4) Health care being tied to employment
5) Lack of uniformity in pricing
6) Excessive litigation
7) Unnecessary and/or excessive/redendant proceedures.
8) Hospitals forced to care for non-citizens who don't pay.
9) Doctors motivated by money (more procedures = more money).
a) increases costs by doing unnecessary things.
b) decreases "with patient" time (less thorough than they should be) due to
rushing through many patients.
10) lack of medical record accessibility / transferrability / online-y goodness
11) billing by the item/procedure (surgery, bandaids, single tylenol, splint, etc) and not by
the outcomes.
12) not enough doctors, too many devices (MRI machines for example)
13) don't need full-on doctors for "simple" things (strep throat, etc.)
14) rare/non-existent after-hours care for things such as Xrays / labs / etc... (outside of
the emergency room, which should be reserved for people who are severely injured).
15) corruption.
a) collusion between Doctors and Medical Supply/Pharmaceutical companies.
16) pharmaceutical advertising to the public.
17) If you sell "insurance" to anyone in a given state, you must accept all persons in that state on the same terms and at the same price. (I don't believe this to be true but have added it as the poster may know something I do not.)
18) The denial of treatments, or removal from a plan altogether, at times when such treatments are critical to the survival of a patient -- this is simply unacceptable.
19) There should be no lifetime maximums for anyone -- catastrophic protection should be mandatory for all plans.
20) People using the ER for routine medical care
21) Old people
Please add your views of our current problem as line items as above so they can be easily cut/pasted into later posts for resolution discussions. Please leave name calling and partisan BS at the door and just state for now what you feel are the shortcomings of the system that is currently in place in the USA.
1) Rising Costs
2) 18% Uninsured rate (or therabouts)
3) Lack of coverage or loss of coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions
a.)Claim denial for seemingly unrelated clerical or informational errors.
4) Health care being tied to employment
5) Lack of uniformity in pricing
6) Excessive litigation
7) Unnecessary and/or excessive/redendant proceedures.
8) Hospitals forced to care for non-citizens who don't pay.
9) Doctors motivated by money (more procedures = more money).
a) increases costs by doing unnecessary things.
b) decreases "with patient" time (less thorough than they should be) due to
rushing through many patients.
10) lack of medical record accessibility / transferrability / online-y goodness
11) billing by the item/procedure (surgery, bandaids, single tylenol, splint, etc) and not by
the outcomes.
12) not enough doctors, too many devices (MRI machines for example)
13) don't need full-on doctors for "simple" things (strep throat, etc.)
14) rare/non-existent after-hours care for things such as Xrays / labs / etc... (outside of
the emergency room, which should be reserved for people who are severely injured).
15) corruption.
a) collusion between Doctors and Medical Supply/Pharmaceutical companies.
16) pharmaceutical advertising to the public.
17) If you sell "insurance" to anyone in a given state, you must accept all persons in that state on the same terms and at the same price. (I don't believe this to be true but have added it as the poster may know something I do not.)
18) The denial of treatments, or removal from a plan altogether, at times when such treatments are critical to the survival of a patient -- this is simply unacceptable.
19) There should be no lifetime maximums for anyone -- catastrophic protection should be mandatory for all plans.
20) People using the ER for routine medical care
21) Old people
Please add your views of our current problem as line items as above so they can be easily cut/pasted into later posts for resolution discussions. Please leave name calling and partisan BS at the door and just state for now what you feel are the shortcomings of the system that is currently in place in the USA.
