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Thursday, October 1, 2009
The future of health care
Two articles in the Salt Lake Tribue today struck me as signs of the future. In the first, here, it shows how complicated the patchwork of programs is for children with working parents who cannot afford insurance. The second shows how genetic information will become a part of health care in the future. This will provide insurers with further reasons to deny coverage. I think these show that we need a universal fix, i.e. the same basic coverage for everybody. And if it continues to be based on an employer model, what is to stop employers from discriminating on the basis of health so that their premiums will not go up?
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It seems that what drives premiums up falls back on the structure of the current system, which seeks or rewards the healthy thru enrollment strategies to pay for not needing care, while at the same time seeks to remove those that need care from the mix, which allows for increased profits for entities which do not provide the actual health care....Does anyone know what it would cost to meet the basic health and medical needs of all Americans? Like so much in life, what we consider is often interpreted in the eye of the beholder...DNA tests available to a patient and doctor provides hope for effective treatment, while in the hands of an insurer, possibly info to minimize risk. As a society we really need to balance our economy with an ethical and humanitarian hegemony--health care seems like a good place to start. Roll on Wardball...
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