New Report Highlights Health Disparities

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Nice summary of why the GOP fights health care reform. The rich supporters don't need any help and the poor supporters listen to Limbaugh and are convinced that the government is their enemy.

Why the GOP fights health reform is a given: If you have "Minorities and low income americans"; who are "not sick and" more "likely to get the care they need." they will have the energy, resources, and smarts to vote. And vote Dem they will. Our government, Dems and GOP alike, want to keep the lower middle class and below sick and tired. It is control of the masses.

Single payer would help the whole U.S. economy in several ways: 1) a healthier workforce, 2) elimination of "middleman" costs unrelated to the care given, and 3) it would free up vast amounts of capital that is hoarded in anticipation of a catastrophic health event, especially by older Americans. Too logical? Nope. Too idealistic? Of course. The change will involve a single risk pool while the profit motive thrives on keeping the cherry-picking science of health care ahead of the medical science. Unfortunately, we will have to buy back our system from those who own and operate it, at the price they ask (1/4 of GNP?!!!)

Did the report state that those who will decide the standard for US health care have absolutely no concern about their health care coverage nor it's costs ?

Health care for profit is immoral. It puts profit above all else including care. Evading care is bad for the health of everyone in a society, however. Also adding to the cost of healthcare the advertising, ceo benefits,perks, and assorted parachutes, expensive legal teams, and the duplicated bureaucracies we are told help competitiveness until companies want to merge and purge, is not wise. Continuing a dualistic capitalist-socialist theoretical argument from the last century is not helpful either. The fact is that we are all interdependent and benefit from the general welfare of society. We also cannot differentiate all of the health impacts from pollution, carcinogens, unknown side efffects of all kinds and sharing those risk factors among the entire society makes the most sense. And making a profit off of the misfortune of others is not civilized behavior.

The disparities in both health and wealth are also a function of individual behaviors and choices. This isn't just an issue about government responsibility. People need to be responsible for their own role in their health. That doesn't mean that I don't think we need reform that would help enable reasonable access to health care. But I would like to see the government reform the current disparities in how the government subsidizes people's health insurance and care. Under the current tax system is the greater your income the greater the value of the tax subsidy that comes from government. So what we have here is a federal government report about the disparities in health care between the wealthy and the poor that doesn't even mention the role of the government in exacerbating that divide.

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ANOTHER OBAMA LIE

So .. Obama stooges get ginned-up data from The Commonwealth Fund to dupe the media again.

A real study would involve comparing HHS data to Medicaid data and see where the gaps are.

Also: how much SMOKING, ALCOHOLISM, DOPE, FATTINESS, and "extreme" lifestyles are involved.

But MESSIAH doesn't want facts. He wants "feelings."

And you to pay for them.

NO ON SINGLE-PAYER.

NO ON OBAMA.