Public health and health reform

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 11:23 AM PST

2008/01/18 · 11:23

There was some information published in a story in Business Week (of all places) that really helped me solidify the need for strong public health influence in any health reformed system, such reform of some type we all agree is badly needed. However just giving everyone access to today's system with its perverse, caveat emptor incentives may do more harm than good.

I believe there is a major difference between public health thinking folks and private sector business thinking type folks in healthcare. Public health does not believe that those with less info or less I.Q., or less funds should be hurt by the system because of their disadvantages. Indeed, public health advocates believe it is within the regulatory sphere of society that nobody is hurt by such caveat emptor actions in healthcare. I would have also thought that the provider profession (do not harm) would see this as a basic tenant, but many evidentially may not or how did we get to where we are today?

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 12:44 PM PST

2008/01/17 · 12:44

Are medical experiments allowed here on Kos. I have a cute mind-body experiment that I would like to try on folks, and then see the results through a poll after you try this. BTW, I wonder if progressive minds perform better or worse on this than others, especially conservative minds??

Poll

17 votes Show Results

I could do this without my right foot changing direction

17 votes Vote Now!

I could do this without my right foot changing direction

The very first time

5 votes

After a few tries

5 votes

After many tries, and I had to almost stop doing both together to achieve this

3 votes

I could not do it at all without changing directions

4 votes

At least one Healthcare Provider Org is seeing the light!

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 5:41 PM PST

2007/12/18 · 17:41

Universal access to healthcare in this country has been hampered partly because provider organizations have been against if for many years. Now at least one Provider Org,
The American College of Physicians, is now singing a different tune for some reason. If universal access to care is going to ever come about, gettting the buy in of providers for system reforms is important.

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Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 1:23 PM PST

2007/12/12 · 13:23

We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes

I have seen this movie and play before, but not for a long time. When it was over, I felt like a ton of bricks had hit me, and I was sad. It brought back so many personal feelings that I have not really felt or thought about in a while, but when they did come back against the current background of the Iraq war, well it just made me feel empty and sad. Are we (America) just traveling in a circle learning nothing, or is the social circumstance so different without a forced draft that even if we have learned, the majority does not care! What does that say about us??

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Friday December 07, 2007 · 7:21 AM PST

2007/12/07 · 07:21

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 11:32 AM PST

2007/11/06 · 11:32

I read an interesting piece today which has my head spinning. I hardly know where to start, except that I found out I am not so bad off financially compared to most others!! Gee maybe I should be a Republican??

I showed my wife this article, but I am not sure if that was wise?? Anyway, then I started thinking about what income and assets it takes to live even moderately well in America, nevermind retire. With Repubs in power over the bulk of the last 20 years, you would think most Americans were wealthy because Repub policies cater to the wealthy. I mean why would America vote for conservative repubs if most Americans were fairly poor?

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Friday November 02, 2007 · 11:59 AM PDT

2007/11/02 · 11:59

We read a lot around here that if we could only give everyone access to all the healthcare they wanted, we would be so better off. If we just got rid of the greedy insurance companies and gave everyone government paid for healthcare, we would be in progressive heaven in this area. Well, what if access to more healthcare and more involved healthcare resulted in poorer results?? Think about that because it may be somewhat true!

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 6:41 AM PDT

2007/10/23 · 06:41

In order to have a fair and functional healthcare system, we need standards of care (SOC) that all professionals providing care in the system will follow. We cannot have rape victims being hassled by puritanical providers ignoring SOC so that rape victims in a moment of weakness or confusion or exhaustion are forced to carry an unwanted rape pregnancy to term. Remember it is the patient needing and being treated by the system, not the healthcare provider, and SOC are made to help the patients get the best care recognized by the overall society and profession! Well in some even relatively conservative states, the pendulum is beginning to swing back to universal SOC being enforced so that if you find yourself going or being taken to the "wrong" place after your rape, you will still get care according to SOC everywhere else!!!

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7 votes Show Results

Are SOC in healtcare mainly to benefit:

7 votes Vote Now!

Are SOC in healtcare mainly to benefit:

the Provider

2 votes

the Patient

5 votes

Healthcare reform is hard, so give Ed Rendell his due!

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 8:46 AM PDT

2007/10/13 · 08:46

Healthcare reform in America is extremely difficult due to entrenched ideas and entrenched powers that like the failing status quo. Many on the left scream for single payer as the only solution, but not surprisingly in this divided nation, nothing like that happens. So does one just keep singing the mantra that goes nowhere while many suffer, or do you try to work the system to get help to more and more as at least a temporary measure. Well, in walks PA's energetic and personable Governor Ed Rendell willing to commit himself and all his political capital to try and come up with a leading edge but doable reform plan for PA and then maybe elsewhere!!

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Tuesday June 05, 2007 · 2:51 PM PDT

2007/06/05 · 14:51

There are many thing wrong with America's healthcare system, and things are not getting better. Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, was interviewed about her new book, Who Killed HealthCare?, and to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care industry. Read this important work HERE!

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Tuesday May 01, 2007 · 5:56 PM PDT

2007/05/01 · 17:56

I watched today the significant remnants of the old rubber stamp Repub Congress coming out blindly favoring Bush's demand for unlimited time and funds to continue sacrificing lives in Iraq with no achievable, provable goal in sight. Specifically, Kay (rubber stamp) Bailey Hutchinson and Kit (Rubber stamp) Bond continuing the mantra to sacrificing other, mostly poor kids to whatever blind faith or alternative agenda that these people have in mind. It made me so angry to hear these folks still doing this after 4 friggin years, and I had to wonder how they keep getting re-elected in their home states with such a blank functioning mind?? It also made me so very angry that I had to yell at the TV in disgust, which I find myself doing more and more lately. Then out of the blue, it dawned on me that as long as voters have no direct negative consequences from putting these bozos in office, this blinded outrageous, irresponsible behavior toward other human life may well continue. A logical solution, however also popped into my mind.

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Wednesday March 21, 2007 · 12:11 PM PDT

2007/03/21 · 12:11

If checks and balances in our federal system fail, whose fault is it ultimately? I watched conservative Bruce Fein on C-Span this morning, and several ideas came to mind. First off read the following which is from conservatives at the American Freedom Agenda (AFA). Check out this excerpt:

"The controversy with the Attorney General is symptomatic of a more serious illness within this Administration – which is the desire for unchecked power," said AFA Chairman Bruce Fein. "As fellow conservatives, we believe we have a greater responsibility than most to stand up to this particular Administration and demand that it respect the checks and balances established by the Founding Fathers. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, regardless of party affiliation, and we can no more remain silent to the abuses occurring under President Bush than we could if a President Clinton were in office. In advancing the American Freedom Agenda, we are all Conservatives, we are all Liberals, we are all Republicans, we are all Democrats. We are above all Americans who cherish the Constitution more than partisan advantage."

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39 votes Show Results

Who is primarily responsible for Bush getting away (so far) with thumbing his nose at the constitution?

39 votes Vote Now!

Who is primarily responsible for Bush getting away (so far) with thumbing his nose at the constitution?

Executive branch

3 votes

Judiciary branch

2 votes

Congress

34 votes

I don't know

0 votes

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