Great news on Healthcare...

[mikelewis]

See, if we continue the way we are going, Health care will grow at a ridiculous rate. Those 45 million people who can't afford health care now will probably turn in to 145 million people who can't afford it by 2019.

Now, there's great news... that 145 million people will only be 100 million people by 2019... Hurray!!! Now you can rest assured you 200 million lucky people with health care, you are now safe and secure... you'll be paying a shit load of money for your coverage but at least you'll still have that same ole shitty coverage you have now.

As for the 100 million people who don't have access to health care...

FUCK YOU, you broke ass dead beats... get a fuckin job or better yet reach down and grab your boot straps and lift your lazy no good ass 10 feet off the ground you incompetent fucks...

[WeDidIt]

1. I called Baucus' office today

Those fuckers don't want to hear about single payer.

It's all about supporting for profit health care.

The Dems are fucked come 2010.

[madaboutharry]

3. There was once a time when the practice of medicine

was a healing art. It is now completely corrupted.

[Juche]

2. Supposedly it drops to 5 million with the commonwealth fund's ideas

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Feb/The-Path-to-a-High-Performance-US-Health-System.aspx

Look at chart ES-2. Obama's plan is lifted from the commonwealth fund's plan.

Anyway, if you really want to save money on healthcare get single payer, make bulk purchases, streamline administration and dole out healthcare dollars based on the most important and cost effective treatments. We could save over a trillion dollars a year doing that. About $800 billion in healthcare is waste and $400 billion is due to complex administration and a lack of bulk purchases.

[Massacure]

4. If you take 2.5 trillion and assume 3% yearly

You get 3.5 trillion in 2019. That means that health care cost increases are brought in check roughly with inflation.

I would argue that with the growing elderly population, if health care increases only at the rate of inflation, some efficiency is being gained.

I think what Maryland with health care was a good thing. If more states started emulating that, the 45 million uninsured people would shrink.