Totalitarian Tip Toe Expedited by Healthcare Policy
Dr. Jennifer Daniels May 17, 2013
The title of this show is “Incremental Encroachment on the Simple Sovereignty of Our Bodies and How this Affects our survival under stressful times.”
Dr. Daniels referred to a 20-page article written by Steven Brill published in Time magazine, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us.” She says the article had nothing to do with advancing health of individuals but rather proposed increasing control over the individual, expanding and supporting a police state.
In 2012 over 311 million people in the US spent $2 trillion. In 2013 this is projected to be $2.8 trillion. Medical care in the U.S. has not progressed much incredibly. 17% of GDP
One thing to consider does value equal the price? Is the US system producing healthy outcomes and is it caring? Uninsured patients are billed an estimated 3 times more than insurance companies are.
Brill believes concealing costs from patents makes healthcare safer and seems to support intrusive totalitarian behavior here. Brill believes the hospital does more MRI’s and X-rays to avoid being sued. This is not true. The hospital wouldn’t perform them if they were not being paid for the services. Brill thinks we need malpractice reform. This would mean a patient wouldn’t get to choose to have a procedure done or not but if you are harmed you wouldn’t be allowed to sue. Brill believes healthcare is a “utility.”
Dr. Daniels believes that Malpractice should be replaced with Criminal Code. 808,000 Americans die from their therapy. Doctors should be held responsible.
Fact: life expectancy is not equivalent to cost expenditures. Healthcare is killing us, not the cost. In other countries, 62.5 % less is spent on healthcare and people live on average three years longer.
One thing Dr. Daniels noticed when in practice was that a low wage employee could pay for the same insurance as an executive yet the insurance company would reject claims for him but would approve the same benefits for the executive.
Under Obamacare homeowners without sufficient ability to purchase health insurance will have to sign their homes over to the Government and lose the property upon their death.
Having all financial and personal information of individuals, the IRS we know will continue to target those who “question” government or are deemed to be extremists.
Brill believes you need government to protect you.
Brill’s plan is as follows:
· Health insurance premiums will stay the same
· Quality of care will go down
· Medicare will restrict payments for services including MRI’s and CAT scans
· The amount that Insurance companies will be allowed to pay would be restricted, obviously defending insurance companies
· Drug companies should post their profits on the Internet – Brill thinks that embarrassing them would result in lower prices. He misses the point that if the drugs worked no one would care about the cost. We’re going to “punish” companies that are murdering their patients to “embarrass” them?
Doctors would be enforcing the police state. This type of discussion of our healthcare issues leads us further into an abyss of spiraling prices and healthcare that fails to improve quality of life, and actually kills us sooner. Doctors would be enforcing the police state.
Brill thinks it is a good idea that Obamacare has a rigorous appeals process when care is denied. Again, you’re not getting care you want, and you’re getting care you don’t want, and you’re getting stuck with a bill and now in order to appeal there is a rigorous process with many many many many steps, and the chance of getting through those steps and getting any redress is just about zero.
Dr. Daniels says believes the problem is that the healthcare reform and Obamacare discussion is carefully crafted propaganda. Insurance companies will be rewarded with preferred status in exchange for doctors being required to elicit data to enforce the police state, asking patients questions such as “do they have guns?”, “are they religious?”, “what is their religion?”, “do they go to church”, “how often do they go to church?” Such questions aren’t going to help the doctor figure out what dosage of antibiotic to give or what type of blood pressure medication to prescribe.
In order to solve a problem you have to have an objective. Dr. Daniels thinks the objective should be to provide safe and effective healthcare. We know…that 89% of what doctors do is harmful or not helpful. 40% of all care provided by doctors is provided under pressure from hospital administrators to fill beds…so only 6.6% of care is believed to be effective, but only half of these patients benefit from the care they receive. This means 3.3% of all health care in the United States is safe and effective. 3.3% times the per capita cost equals $198 per year per capita is the cost necessary. Any more care destroys the patient financially [or physically.]
Dr. Daniel’s solution would be:
· Abolish [or discourage] health insurance
· The patient must get 24 hour notice of the cost from the doctor and hospital before services are provided
· If the patient does elect to use health insurance, every insurance form must have a binding price
This would reduce cost 50%. Next would be:
· No court could compel health care. Only a patient acting freely could make decisions for himself.
· Permit employees to receive additional cash in lieu of health insurance benefits. This would allow the individual to decide if they’d benefit more from new tires or a mammogram, or to choose healthier food for example.
· Even when health care services are provided, the insurance company must present cash at the time a patient makes this decision. If the patient elects not to use all services the hospital must pay the patient any amount not used.
· The hospital must charge the same to all payers – patients or insurance companies.
Personal freedom would reduce health care cost and improve outcomes.
Dr. Jennifer Daniels May 17, 2013
The title of this show is “Incremental Encroachment on the Simple Sovereignty of Our Bodies and How this Affects our survival under stressful times.”
Dr. Daniels referred to a 20-page article written by Steven Brill published in Time magazine, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us.” She says the article had nothing to do with advancing health of individuals but rather proposed increasing control over the individual, expanding and supporting a police state.
In 2012 over 311 million people in the US spent $2 trillion. In 2013 this is projected to be $2.8 trillion. Medical care in the U.S. has not progressed much incredibly. 17% of GDP
One thing to consider does value equal the price? Is the US system producing healthy outcomes and is it caring? Uninsured patients are billed an estimated 3 times more than insurance companies are.
Brill believes concealing costs from patents makes healthcare safer and seems to support intrusive totalitarian behavior here. Brill believes the hospital does more MRI’s and X-rays to avoid being sued. This is not true. The hospital wouldn’t perform them if they were not being paid for the services. Brill thinks we need malpractice reform. This would mean a patient wouldn’t get to choose to have a procedure done or not but if you are harmed you wouldn’t be allowed to sue. Brill believes healthcare is a “utility.”
Dr. Daniels believes that Malpractice should be replaced with Criminal Code. 808,000 Americans die from their therapy. Doctors should be held responsible.
Fact: life expectancy is not equivalent to cost expenditures. Healthcare is killing us, not the cost. In other countries, 62.5 % less is spent on healthcare and people live on average three years longer.
One thing Dr. Daniels noticed when in practice was that a low wage employee could pay for the same insurance as an executive yet the insurance company would reject claims for him but would approve the same benefits for the executive.
Under Obamacare homeowners without sufficient ability to purchase health insurance will have to sign their homes over to the Government and lose the property upon their death.
Having all financial and personal information of individuals, the IRS we know will continue to target those who “question” government or are deemed to be extremists.
Brill believes you need government to protect you.
Brill’s plan is as follows:
· Health insurance premiums will stay the same
· Quality of care will go down
· Medicare will restrict payments for services including MRI’s and CAT scans
· The amount that Insurance companies will be allowed to pay would be restricted, obviously defending insurance companies
· Drug companies should post their profits on the Internet – Brill thinks that embarrassing them would result in lower prices. He misses the point that if the drugs worked no one would care about the cost. We’re going to “punish” companies that are murdering their patients to “embarrass” them?
Doctors would be enforcing the police state. This type of discussion of our healthcare issues leads us further into an abyss of spiraling prices and healthcare that fails to improve quality of life, and actually kills us sooner. Doctors would be enforcing the police state.
Brill thinks it is a good idea that Obamacare has a rigorous appeals process when care is denied. Again, you’re not getting care you want, and you’re getting care you don’t want, and you’re getting stuck with a bill and now in order to appeal there is a rigorous process with many many many many steps, and the chance of getting through those steps and getting any redress is just about zero.
Dr. Daniels says believes the problem is that the healthcare reform and Obamacare discussion is carefully crafted propaganda. Insurance companies will be rewarded with preferred status in exchange for doctors being required to elicit data to enforce the police state, asking patients questions such as “do they have guns?”, “are they religious?”, “what is their religion?”, “do they go to church”, “how often do they go to church?” Such questions aren’t going to help the doctor figure out what dosage of antibiotic to give or what type of blood pressure medication to prescribe.
In order to solve a problem you have to have an objective. Dr. Daniels thinks the objective should be to provide safe and effective healthcare. We know…that 89% of what doctors do is harmful or not helpful. 40% of all care provided by doctors is provided under pressure from hospital administrators to fill beds…so only 6.6% of care is believed to be effective, but only half of these patients benefit from the care they receive. This means 3.3% of all health care in the United States is safe and effective. 3.3% times the per capita cost equals $198 per year per capita is the cost necessary. Any more care destroys the patient financially [or physically.]
Dr. Daniel’s solution would be:
· Abolish [or discourage] health insurance
· The patient must get 24 hour notice of the cost from the doctor and hospital before services are provided
· If the patient does elect to use health insurance, every insurance form must have a binding price
This would reduce cost 50%. Next would be:
· No court could compel health care. Only a patient acting freely could make decisions for himself.
· Permit employees to receive additional cash in lieu of health insurance benefits. This would allow the individual to decide if they’d benefit more from new tires or a mammogram, or to choose healthier food for example.
· Even when health care services are provided, the insurance company must present cash at the time a patient makes this decision. If the patient elects not to use all services the hospital must pay the patient any amount not used.
· The hospital must charge the same to all payers – patients or insurance companies.
Personal freedom would reduce health care cost and improve outcomes.