so, our conservative friends , what are your constructive ideas on what specifically should our country invest into right now?
And , can we please, hear some specific ideas on how heathcare SHOULD in your opinion be structured.
Anybody?
how about 5 points for each?
Really really specific.
All I am reading so far is criticism of how awful and how evil current administration is.
Let's hear some constructive "citizens" input.

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So, ;-)в порядке очереди,
Лади и Джентэльмены - (демократы),

сначала ответьте на мои вопросы :-)... по 5 пунктов...
+ добавьте сюда и health care reform.
Вопрос все тот же... зачем Обама загоняет страну в тупик, разводя костер огня на Востоке ( хотя сам орал в предвыборной компании обратное) и стартуя печатать неимоверное количество денег не подтрержденной золотым фондом,,,которые как он обьясняет необходимы на рефому....ввергая страну еще в болле огромную долговую яму....?
логически напрашивается вопрос: а он в своем уме?

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Юля, вы мыслите узко: ваш лозунг - давай , давай... Health care реформу..
а вы задумываетесь что вводя сейчас такие реформистские новшества, можно затолкать богатую страны в нищету...Сейчас КРИЗИС, если вы етого не видите, откройте газету,, уровень безработицы ударил в среднем 16% по стране... хотя с вашей точки зрения будет нормально-у всех все поровну... Но Обама с вами в одном госпитале лечиться не будет,, и у его собачки будет отдельный доктор....

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I 'll be posting whatever I find in my spare time.(ch)


Health Savings Accounts
Since 2005, HSA coverage has increased 6 fold, growing at a rate of over 30% a year. With an HSA, the worker gets health insurance covering expenses over a high deductible chosen by the worker, usually $2,000 - $5,000. The enormous savings from such a high deductible policy is then kept in the HSA account, where it earns interest tax free. Funds in the account can then be used to pay for health expenses below the deductible, again tax free.

Да, я с Лерой согласна. Обама не будет сидеть в очереди в поликлинике к терапевту из Пакистана, который смог сдать экзамен в Америке ( со скидкой на незнание языка, так как в стране же кризис лицензированных медработников, и нужно срочно затыкать бреши чем получится).
Лера, на ваш вопрос почему БО загоняет страну в ещё больший кризис? Это делается сознательно: инфляция, которая непременно наступит, когда триллионы бумажек поступят в обращение, -это излюбленный метод прогрессивных перераспределять богаство.

Medicare Reforms
Medicare is headed the way of Medicaid, with lower and lower payments to doctors and hospitals threatening to restrict access to care. A reduction of such payments of over 20% is scheduled for next year, which will greatly worsen the problem. Doctors are already dropping out of Medicare, and government bureaucrats are already restricting what drugs doctors can prescribe for their patients under the program. Average face time with a doctor for a Medicare appointment is now down to a mere 13 minutes.
Medicare includes an option for retirees to choose private coverage, called Medicare Advantage. Almost 11 million retirees have chosen such private coverage, close to 25% of all Medicare enrollees.

The Republican plan would expand this option by allowing private insurers to competitively bid down the Medicare payments they would receive for providing the specified benefits. The insurers would also be able to modify benefits to provide more of what seniors are telling them they want, and then compete in the marketplace to sell those benefits to seniors. This same competitive bidding system has been in use for Medicare prescription drug benefits and is estimated to have reduced costs by 26%, with premiums charged to seniors 37% lower than originally expected. This private option would enable seniors to avoid the increasing threat of rationing under Medicare.

Another important innovation is the creation of a Health Services Commission (HSC) modeled after the Securities and Exchange Commission. The HSC, however, would not be regulatory. It would establish principles, standards and metrics for the reporting and publication of price and quality information by doctors, hospitals and other health providers, similarly to the Financial Accounting Systems Board for accounting principles. This would truly enable consumers to compare price and quality among competing providers.

There is a lot more -I don't have time right now to copy and paste.
But the most important one is probably
1.Tort reform
2. Interstate insurance sales

It would establish principles, standards and metrics for the reportingand publication of price and quality information by doctors,hospitals and other health providers,
You mean, Republicans propose to rip off the idea of Angie's list (***********.angieslist.com/)? Nice. :-)