The Christian thing to do was done by DEMOCRATIC party's
leadership under President Obama in passing Affordable Health Care Act
legislation. Individual health care service costs caused of half of bankruptcies in America! Meantime, study below proves how much middle and poor classes of Americans were paying and now receiving any value! Obamacare's passage, over time, will lower individual health care costs an estimated $750 to $1,000,000,000
dollars! Such indisputable evidence proves GOP/TEA PARTY adoption of their professed strategy of “throwing
away the baby with the bath water strategy” was UNCHRISTIAN!
GOP/TEA PARTY political strategy
against Obamacare flew right into face of Christianity beliefs!
This misguided GOP/TEA PARTY strategy
mirrored same economic strategy employed by this same group of
misguided politicians 2000-2008 failed economic strategy employed by
Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, Cheney, G.W. Bush. It demonstrates that
Mitt Romney and Ryan will carry out the same flawed policies, if
elected!
Furthermore, to prove how appropriate
and timely Democratic party approach is to help middle/low class of
Americans, Mitt Romney, who is on record as saying if elected he'd
destroy Obamacare---immediately---is now saying, after Democratic
Convention---he'd not do that because he now feels keeping some parts
of Obamacare is his goal!
Waste in the Health
Care System
Published: September
10, 2012
A new report from a panel of experts
convened by the Institute of Medicine estimated that roughly 30
percent of health care spending in 2009 — around $750 billion —
was wasted on unnecessary or poorly delivered services and other
needless costs. Lack of coordination at every point in the health
care system is a big culprit.
The panel cited studies showing that 20
percent of patients reported test results or medical records that
were not transferred from one place to another in time for an
appointment, requiring additional tests or visits.
One study found that a typical Medicare
patient with Type 2 diabetes (without other medical conditions) saw
five different doctors in a year. Another showed that the rate at
which primary doctors referred patients to specialists doubled over
the past decade. In one survey, primary care doctors who had Medicare
patients coordinated with an average of 229 other physicians in a
single year to care for those Medicare patients, blurring
accountability.
No wonder another survey found that 75
percent of hospital patients were unable to identify the clinician in
charge of their care. Almost two-thirds of patients don’t know how
much their care costs until they receive a bill, and less than half
receive clear information on the benefits and trade-offs before
undergoing treatments. Worse, the extra spending did not help
patients. In fact, one study found that one-third of hospitalized
patients are harmed during their stay, driving up their medical
costs.
The panel concluded that there is no
single answer for reducing inefficiencies. Instead, it said that
every participant in the system — doctors, hospitals, big
integrated health care systems, insurance companies and government
agencies — had to expand ways to provide usable information when
doctors and patients decide on treatments, engage patients in
clinical decisions, and adopt technology-assisted practices that have
improved reliability and cut costs in other industries.
What’s clear from this report is that
the pilot projects in the Affordable Care Act to encourage better
coordination of care, make medical prices transparent and accelerate
the use of health information technology are only a modest start.
These have to be expanded, not repealed, if the nation hopes to make
a real dent in health care costs.
Under Romney & Ryan's leadership Americans will live as they have under Bush & Cheney's leadership! However, Romney's & Ryan's calice health care politics was highlighted by Sister Simone Campbell's speech at Democratic convention, wherein she scolded anyone following the unchristian approach taken by Republican/Tea Party parties. "Throwing "the baby out with the bath water" flies in the face of christian beliefs! Romney now has recalculated his political strategy and embraces Obamacare's insuring 26 year olds under mom and dad's health care policy and now says "Americans with pre-existing conditions insurance will continue if he's elected.
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