Monday July 27, 2009, 10:40 pm
My humble opinion is that American healthcare has a big weak point: medicine is not thought in social terms. I mean they have the most amazing research programme and can treat many illnesses that are almost unknown by the doctors of underdeveloped countries such as mine... if the patients can afford the treatments. A great debate is necessary in the USA nowadays related with this issue. The great question is: is private medicine fair? Should something that is essential to survive be treated as a merchandise?
(My English is horrible, I'm sorry!)

Monday July 27, 2009, 10:43 pm
Thank you Panda again.

Tuesday July 28, 2009, 1:10 am
Noted with thanks Panda

Tuesday July 28, 2009, 5:12 am
Noted with big thanks Panda.

Tuesday July 28, 2009, 5:12 am
Panda thank but this article is scary. The worst option is the one to pay medical providers at the same rate that Medicare pays the now. Post secondary education in the US is a fiasco too. Young doctors would never be able to pay off their educational loans if they were paid at that rate. Education of physicians is going to have to be paid for too. I know he loans my daughter had to take on to become a doctor.

Tuesday July 28, 2009, 8:53 am
"The nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund, a health care think tank, studied three options for new plans and found that by far the most effective mechanism to drive costs down -- with savings for the federal government, consumers and employers alike -- was the creation of a public plan that would pay medical providers at the same rates that Medicare pays."
That's Medicare for All single payer healthcare, HR676
A majority of americans, doctors, and nurses support the bill.
What is the problem? Why are Congress, the President and the American people so against saving money AND covering ALL Americans. I have never heard a doctor complain about Medicare.
So what is the problem? What is the debate?

Tuesday July 28, 2009, 5:22 pm
When it cost $800.00 for a doctor to put 3 stiches in a foot, and the total emergency bill top
$3700.00 then the system is broken. That is highway robbery.

Wednesday July 29, 2009, 4:09 pm
Health care is a Hugh issue that is much needed for our society. Everyone should be taken care of, not just for seniors not just for families with children, but individuals of all kinds. Everyone needs some kind of help, which is what we pay into every year. Isn’t that where our Governments get the extra monies from (THE PEOPLE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s doesn’t grow on trees, and if it did we wouldn’t need there help……

Sunday August 9, 2009, 3:36 pm

I heard that this morning on MTP, Gingrich asked Palin, Romney and Huckabee to join him in supporting the next republican grass roots initiative…in an effort to prove conservatives mean what they say, he wants all seniors and vets to renounce medicare, social security and VA benefits. Gingrich says we have to walk the talk. When a befuddled Stephanopoulis said, really? Gingrich said yes, we have to show the left that we don’t need ANY government help. American seniors and vets are strong people, they’ll find a way to get along without these socialist services.

Let's see if the Right is willing to walk the walk and give up their "socialist" programs.

Monday August 10, 2009, 6:39 pm

$1.2 TRILLION WASTED : The 6 Biggest Ways Our Health Care System Throws Away Money


More than $1.2 trillion spent on health care each year is a waste of money. That's half of the $2.2 trillion the USA spends on health care each year, according to the most recent data from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute