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By: Ralph Emerson

Ralph Emerson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:33:05 +0000

If Canada and their health care system are so bad, how come they have better health than we do at much lower cost?

And if they are rationing health care thereby exacerbating already existing health problems, how come they just published substantial decreases in the incidence of cardiac disease? And their longevity is still going up, rather than stabilizing or going down like the U.S.

Something isn’t adding up. Where did you get your information about Canadian health care–the Heritage Foundation?

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:08:46 +0000

The writer of this article is obviously part of the medical, drug company, FDA establishment. For years they have been pushing treatments – such as HRT for example – that later turn out to be very harmful. They are an arrogant monopoly that can not be trusted. Unless this changes and they come clean and stop attempting to restrict free choice for people in the area of health, I for one will not trust anything they say. Their continued propaganda push makes me trust anything that is said by mainstream medicine LESS and LESS.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:48:45 +0000

People will get sicker as they self-medicate waiting for doctors….people get sick waiting six months or more for their normal MD. People buy supplements now…just because they’re available; they also self-medicate themselves with liquor, off the street drugs and sex waiting for the “preferred doctor” or trying to figure out how to pay their next premium or deductible.
I am a Republican. However, I detest knee-jerk Republicans that just run 180degrees out of phase to any recommendation by a Democrat.

How many Republican & Democrats that have run for office in the past 50 years have absolutely promised to tackle health care and make it available to everyone. That ration of campaign promises has come from every house, state, Federal office seeker at each and every campaign. Whether I like the man or not….I respect the office of the current president that is actually coming up with a solution.

If you don’t like the solution….come up with a better one. At present, I’m doling out $1200 a month for my wife and I for health insurance; I’d much rather dump that $14K a year and pay into a tax line against my income. It’s bound to be a lot cheaper than giving my cash away for a policy that keeps raising it’s premium for each birthday.

You’re afraid you won’t see your favorite doctor while in the hospital? Well bunkie….many if not all Hospitals do NOT allow your doctor into the hospital; you have to use the sub-contractor doctors as the hospitals and MDs try to eliminate the paper trail back to them for the myriad of suits that compound the hospital liability each day.

We’re already in a form of Socialized Medicine…except we’re paying big out of pocket and still getting sub-standard care; we’re still waiting for doctor appointments for days to months at a time; we’re still paying a large chunk of cash in deductible at each doctor visit….and we’re still arguing the fine print for insurance companies that attempt to evade making payment.

Try running the numbers rather than just being argumentative due to philosophy. I’m sick of paying top dollar for health care insurance that I have to continually fight to validate coverage. For what it’s worth, my mother is on Medicare and social security…I know exactly what to expect in her health care costs and the various doctors that she has to visit…accept her cards like cash. If it’s an example of Socialized Medicine to see MDs that accept her coverages….I’m not unhappy.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:37:43 +0000

I don’t know of many supplements that have killed as many people as the “regulated drugs” the FDA have allowed – with a little kick back from the drug companies. Go do something about the FDA and the collusion between it, the drug companies and doctors and you might be able to make a case. Anyway didn’t Emory just have a professor that had more than a vested interest in the drugs and the money from them versus if they worked – that’s rhetorical.

By: Van

Van — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:32 +0000

If the Drug Companies and Doctors in the USA had not been raising their Prices 10 to 12% EVERY YEAR for the last 20 Years and thus Shutting out about 20% of the Population from Health Care then we would not be in this mess now. GREED on the part of the Drug Companies and Most Doctors is the Main Factor in out of control Health Care costs. Twenty Years ago Doctors made around $100,000 a year and now most make over $500,000.
Many make over a Million a year. Doctors Should be well paid but not at the level they are now….and every year they want more and more!
The Drug Companies are much worse. Twenty years ago they made Big Profit on a per pill basis and now….They Make HUGE unbelivable per pill profits in the USA. But in most other countries the Govt. regulates the Drug Companies and they still ONLY make Big Profits for each pill. Heath Care used to be about 5% of the average persons expenses and now it’s close to 12% and going higher every year.

By: RGB

RGB — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:15:17 +0000

Should government-run health care be enacted as the president and Democrat members of Congress desire, the result will be the rationing of care. Canada and the U.K. are examples where this rationing by government occurs.

If this rationing of health care occurs in the U.S., many people are likely to self-treat with supplements the FDA classifies as foods rather than drugs. While some of these people may be helped, others will receive no relief while still others will encounter the side effects you described. Plus, many people will take FDA-approved OTC medications as an alternative to professional care and will suffer the consequences. An elderly arthritic patient who increases her consumption of aspirin (because she cannot see a physician) and experiences G.I. bleeding is an example.

So one of the unintended consequences of “helping people” under the guise of so-called “universal health care” will be people who would like to be treated by their physician–but since care is rationed they get sicker as a result of self-medicating.

That two industries (supplement makers and the funeral industry) will be excited by ObamaCare should cause thoughtful people to withhold support for socialized medicine in the U.S.