HEALTH
CARE DELIVERY
ECONOMICS KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES
BUT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
EVERYTHING ANSWERS TO HEALTH
CARE DELIVERY
ECONOMICS KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES
BUT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
EVERYTHING ANSWERS TO HEALTH
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Individually C-P'able.
Underlying Addresses
Visible.
Much Saner Version
New
Basic Question
About Oligopoly,
With Comparison
New Explanations
1 2 3
More Assistance:
The Economics That's More
Health-Centered
(Health Economics And
Applied Public Health
Are Intertwined)
With Other Sectors
(Health Care's Place
In The Macro Landscape)
The Choices
Pro-Active Style In
Health Information And
Health Education
With So Much Obfuscation In
Our Public Discourse, Even
Within Individual Sectors,
One Might Easily Need:
Understanding Priorities
(Everything Answers To
Health / Happiness)
And The Roadmap Of
Economics And
Nationwide, Community,
And Environmental Health
Better Than The
Preceding Shellgame,
But Here's A Less
Flattering View
Of Where We Are
Risk Equalization,
Tiering,
And Other Thrills
About This Page
You Can Never Confuse
Existing U.S. Health Care,
Or ObamaCare,
With Risk Equalization Any
More Than You Can Confuse
A Corvette With A
Buick Skylark
"Pretextual" Time-Bombs Run
Parallel To Look-Alike General
Election Resolutions And Projects
Lacking Sense Of Mission (As
In Rapid Transit Minus The
Accessible Parking Or
Convenient Scheduling.)
Aspects Of Potential-To-
Inevitable
Inefficient Support Of An
Oligopoly, By Virtue Of The
Enshrining Of The Oligopoly,
Such As Government Subsidy
Substituting For More Obvious
Discriminatory Pricing And
Risk Shifting, Exist.
The Ongoing Forcing Of Those
Who Sold The Mortgage Bubble
To "Hand It Over" And Their
Concomitant Increasingly
Damaged Ability To Clear
The Market Is A Cross-Sector
Parallel.
The Longer, The More
Egregiously Monopolistic, The
More Damage Will Be Done To A
Sector In Terms Of
Efficiency And Effectiveness.
Who Sold The Mortgage Bubble
To "Hand It Over" And Their
Concomitant Increasingly
Damaged Ability To Clear
The Market Is A Cross-Sector
Parallel.
The Longer, The More
Egregiously Monopolistic, The
More Damage Will Be Done To A
Sector In Terms Of
Efficiency And Effectiveness.
In The Context Of Oligopoly,
Does The Very Presence Of
High Risk Exchanges Presage
The Endurance Of
Just Go Away Deductibles?
How Particularly Vulnerable
Is This Sector To
Regulatory Capture Absent
A Structure Instrinsically
Assuring Right Behavior,
Such As Risk Equalization
System-wide, Or At Least
Ending Immunity From The
Anti-Trust Laws, Or, For
That Matter, Something
Like California OneCare?
-----
Should The Ag Business Ever Get
Meaningfully Oligopolistic, Then
Food Stamps, Though Then Still
Essential, Still Becomes A Means Of
Clouding Discriminatory Pricing.
And If The Inefficiency Of
Oligopoly Should Become Too
Expensive System-Wide, Then
The Food Stamps Recipients
Will Get Shafted.
It's Still Important To
Support Those Less Able To
Afford Goods Or Services, But
That Would Be Better Done
In A Non-Monopolistic
Environment. They'll Get
Shafted Incrementally
Though, As The Inefficiency
Dictates To The People
Setting Policy Currently.
What Should Not Be The
Policy:
Insulation From Competition
And The Government's
Paying The Difference Vs.
Standard Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing And
Assumption Of Risk Matters.
With Real Competition,
Pricing and Assumption
Of Risk Become A
Different Story, With
Financial Support Spread
Across A Rationalized,
More Efficient System.
It's Because Of The Nature
Of Medical Care, Though, As
I Indicate Elsewhere
(Internet Stats Imply Few
Will Read A Full Page Through
In One Sitting), That Something
Like OneCare Would Not
Be Very Disparate In Terms
Of Rationalization.
Immunity From Anti-Trust
Is Little More Than An
Entrenched Oligopoly, And The
Recent Supreme Court
Decision's Language As To
The Mandate Being A Tax Looks
Consistent With The Concept Of
The Dominant Health
Insurers Amounting To A
Quasi-Monopoly-Utility,
Government Protected.
I Support The Mandate,
However, As The Alternative
Is Ultimately Persons Getting
A Wrongful Free Ride,
Because Of Cost Shifting.
Does The Very Presence Of
High Risk Exchanges Presage
The Endurance Of
Just Go Away Deductibles?
How Particularly Vulnerable
Is This Sector To
Regulatory Capture Absent
A Structure Instrinsically
Assuring Right Behavior,
Such As Risk Equalization
System-wide, Or At Least
Ending Immunity From The
Anti-Trust Laws, Or, For
That Matter, Something
Like California OneCare?
-----
Should The Ag Business Ever Get
Meaningfully Oligopolistic, Then
Food Stamps, Though Then Still
Essential, Still Becomes A Means Of
Clouding Discriminatory Pricing.
And If The Inefficiency Of
Oligopoly Should Become Too
Expensive System-Wide, Then
The Food Stamps Recipients
Will Get Shafted.
It's Still Important To
Support Those Less Able To
Afford Goods Or Services, But
That Would Be Better Done
In A Non-Monopolistic
Environment. They'll Get
Shafted Incrementally
Though, As The Inefficiency
Dictates To The People
Setting Policy Currently.
What Should Not Be The
Policy:
Insulation From Competition
And The Government's
Paying The Difference Vs.
Standard Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing And
Assumption Of Risk Matters.
With Real Competition,
Pricing and Assumption
Of Risk Become A
Different Story, With
Financial Support Spread
Across A Rationalized,
More Efficient System.
It's Because Of The Nature
Of Medical Care, Though, As
I Indicate Elsewhere
(Internet Stats Imply Few
Will Read A Full Page Through
In One Sitting), That Something
Like OneCare Would Not
Be Very Disparate In Terms
Of Rationalization.
Immunity From Anti-Trust
Is Little More Than An
Entrenched Oligopoly, And The
Recent Supreme Court
Decision's Language As To
The Mandate Being A Tax Looks
Consistent With The Concept Of
The Dominant Health
Insurers Amounting To A
Quasi-Monopoly-Utility,
Government Protected.
I Support The Mandate,
However, As The Alternative
Is Ultimately Persons Getting
A Wrongful Free Ride,
Because Of Cost Shifting.
There is no credible evidence that
high-risk people gaining insurance
under health reform could justify the
59-percent increase in rates
proposed by Blue Shield, UCLA Health
Policy Research Center
Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski
said on the Today in LA program
(link lost and substituted.)
Shana Alex Lavarreda,
Center research scientist and director
of health insurance studies, also
discussed the proposed rate hikes in
an interview on KPCC-Southern
California Public Radio.
Plus You're Paying For The
Gatekeeping And The Insurer's
Interference With Your Doctor'
Job.
high-risk people gaining insurance
under health reform could justify the
59-percent increase in rates
proposed by Blue Shield, UCLA Health
Policy Research Center
Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski
said on the Today in LA program
(link lost and substituted.)
Shana Alex Lavarreda,
Center research scientist and director
of health insurance studies, also
discussed the proposed rate hikes in
an interview on KPCC-Southern
California Public Radio.
Plus You're Paying For The
Gatekeeping And The Insurer's
Interference With Your Doctor'
Job.
Removing Exlusions Means
Infinitely More When Married With
Removing Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws And The
Gaming Of Risk That
Discriminatory Monopolistic
Pricing Still Affords
Risk Equalization Combined
With Repealing Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws Is Entirely
About Clinical Rationalization
Quality-Oriented Efficiency,
Intrinsic Cost Containment,
A Community Of Interests Freed
From Unfair Treatment Such
That Incremental Cost Saving
Guidelines Are Easily Agreed To,
And Has Nothing To Do With
Cost Plus Coverage. High and
Low Risk Being Jumbled,
Tiering (Quality Classing)
Becomes Not Far From
Non-Existent.
It Happens That California
OneCare Shares Most These
Advantages. We All Have
Millions Of Homeostatic
Chemical Reactions And
Vulnerabilities To
Accidents And Genetic
And Environmental
Risks, None Of Which
Bears A Demand / Price
Relation ("Elasticity")
In The Provision Of Health
Care.
Where ObamaCare Includes
A Cost Plus Mechanism That's
Not A Plus For Trust, And It's
Unhelpful In Terms Of Cost
Containment And Efficiency.
Whether It's Getting Help
Wringing A Profit From Higher
Risk Patients, Segregated Out,
Price-Gaming Those Not
In High Risk Exchanges,
Applying Just Go Away
Deductibles To Those
Destined For High Risk
Exchanges, Which
Defines The Exact Opposite
Of Clinical Rationalization
(And Medical Savings
Accounts May Be Great
For Banks But Discourage
Early Intervention,)
Getting State Help With
Those Unable To Afford A
Pricing Structure Reflecting
Oligopoly, And Then Having
A Cartel's Free Hand With
The Easily Picked Fruit,
The Healthy Customer, I
Don't Know About You,
But To Me It Looks Like
The Triumph Of Oligopoly.
It's More Astounding In
Health Care Than In
TBTF Banks Or Cable Cos.
Because It Games The
Risk Of Getting Ill, Which,
I'm Sorry To Say, Is
Nonetheless Universally
Going To Happen.
Infinitely More When Married With
Removing Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws And The
Gaming Of Risk That
Discriminatory Monopolistic
Pricing Still Affords
Risk Equalization Combined
With Repealing Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws Is Entirely
About Clinical Rationalization
Quality-Oriented Efficiency,
Intrinsic Cost Containment,
A Community Of Interests Freed
From Unfair Treatment Such
That Incremental Cost Saving
Guidelines Are Easily Agreed To,
And Has Nothing To Do With
Cost Plus Coverage. High and
Low Risk Being Jumbled,
Tiering (Quality Classing)
Becomes Not Far From
Non-Existent.
It Happens That California
OneCare Shares Most These
Advantages. We All Have
Millions Of Homeostatic
Chemical Reactions And
Vulnerabilities To
Accidents And Genetic
And Environmental
Risks, None Of Which
Bears A Demand / Price
Relation ("Elasticity")
In The Provision Of Health
Care.
Where ObamaCare Includes
A Cost Plus Mechanism That's
Not A Plus For Trust, And It's
Unhelpful In Terms Of Cost
Containment And Efficiency.
Whether It's Getting Help
Wringing A Profit From Higher
Risk Patients, Segregated Out,
Price-Gaming Those Not
In High Risk Exchanges,
Applying Just Go Away
Deductibles To Those
Destined For High Risk
Exchanges, Which
Defines The Exact Opposite
Of Clinical Rationalization
(And Medical Savings
Accounts May Be Great
For Banks But Discourage
Early Intervention,)
Getting State Help With
Those Unable To Afford A
Pricing Structure Reflecting
Oligopoly, And Then Having
A Cartel's Free Hand With
The Easily Picked Fruit,
The Healthy Customer, I
Don't Know About You,
But To Me It Looks Like
The Triumph Of Oligopoly.
It's More Astounding In
Health Care Than In
TBTF Banks Or Cable Cos.
Because It Games The
Risk Of Getting Ill, Which,
I'm Sorry To Say, Is
Nonetheless Universally
Going To Happen.
Now, Considering The Above, And
This And
This ,
Citing the Urban Institute, And
This, And Also This.
Particularly Egregious Under One
Like Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
"Florida turns down $4.9
million from federal government
designed to strengthen parenting"
Add It All Up And What Is It
But Taking Everyone For What
They're Worth Cartel-Stye, With
Some State Assistance For The
Risky The Cartel Doesn't Want,
But Only To A Point Where
Shafting People Has To Happen
Lest The Banks Don't Enjoy
Loss Sharing And Near Free
Reserves On Your Nickel And
Lest The Billionaires Have To
Avoid Paying Taxes Less.
In Hindsight, Would This
Congress Allow A Different Result?
The Program Actually Perfects,
More Completely, And Universally,
A System Perfectly Meeting The
Definition of Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing.
(Except In Place Of
Lower Prices For
Lower Income Persons
The State Fills In.
It's Rightful For States To
Do That, But It's Wrong In
The Context Of Supporting
An Oligopoly And Cost Plus
Coverage Outside High
Risk Exchanges. It's Wrong
In Likely Leading To A Tiered
System. The System Drops
People Altogether Where
Sustaining Them In Tandem
With Supporting The
Oligopoly, Or Basic Cartel,
Is Not Worthwhile To
The Monopolists.)
What CAN Be Said For It Is
It May Be Less Violent
(In The End, Depending
On The Results In Medicaid, As
It May Yet Prove More Violent,)
Than This.
I Strongly Advocate Risk
Equalization Instead, As I
Think People Have Routinely
Used The Demagogue's
Idea Of Capitalism, Which
Is Monopoly And Controlling
Influence. As I Indicate
With Links Above And Below,
Its Mechanics Actually
Surprisingly Largely Overlap
Those Of California OneCare.
Risk Equalization Goes For
Potential Additional Measures
In Cost Control And Efficiency
Entirely Through Clinical
Rationalization, As Through
"Value-Basing," Though That
Is Where OneCare Also Shines,
By Way Of The Legitimate
Competitive Mechanism That
The Demagogues Falsely Claim
Exists In Their Programs.
Risk Equalization Means
Paying In/Receiving Out
To/From A Risk Equalizer And
Letting A Rich Market, No
Longer Immune From The
Anti-Trust Laws, Compete
Of Necessity On Clinically
Rational Terms, With Doctors
And Reimburses Matched
Through A Particularly
Vibrant Market Between
Each Other.
Physician-Owned HMO's Surely
Would Of Course Be Readily
Made For Such An Environment.
The Clinic Already Insisting,
Already Known Successfully,
On Just Letting Doctors Call
The Patient Management
Decisions May Well Form The
Core Of An Insurance
Environment. Earlier Experiences
In Blue Cross/Blue Shield, From
Prior To The Greater Part
Of The Art Learned In Weaning
Out Risky Patients, Would
Likely Serve Well Again.
Because Financial Assistance
Is Applied Across The Risk
Equalized System, In What
I Advocate, My Plan May
Be The Best In Avoiding
Quality Classing (Tiering.)
So This Is
Captive-Customers-Lite.
SEE
(The Low Risk Customers,
On The Other Hand Are
Headed For A Cost-Plus
Volume-Encouraged Space,
With Just Go Away Deductibles
Likely To Be The Only
Affordable Premiums For
Those Getting Risky.)
"The Many Ways The
Emptying Of Your
Pocket Is Protected"
This And
This ,
Citing the Urban Institute, And
This, And Also This.
Particularly Egregious Under One
Like Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
"Florida turns down $4.9
million from federal government
designed to strengthen parenting"
Add It All Up And What Is It
But Taking Everyone For What
They're Worth Cartel-Stye, With
Some State Assistance For The
Risky The Cartel Doesn't Want,
But Only To A Point Where
Shafting People Has To Happen
Lest The Banks Don't Enjoy
Loss Sharing And Near Free
Reserves On Your Nickel And
Lest The Billionaires Have To
Avoid Paying Taxes Less.
In Hindsight, Would This
Congress Allow A Different Result?
The Program Actually Perfects,
More Completely, And Universally,
A System Perfectly Meeting The
Definition of Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing.
(Except In Place Of
Lower Prices For
Lower Income Persons
The State Fills In.
It's Rightful For States To
Do That, But It's Wrong In
The Context Of Supporting
An Oligopoly And Cost Plus
Coverage Outside High
Risk Exchanges. It's Wrong
In Likely Leading To A Tiered
System. The System Drops
People Altogether Where
Sustaining Them In Tandem
With Supporting The
Oligopoly, Or Basic Cartel,
Is Not Worthwhile To
The Monopolists.)
What CAN Be Said For It Is
It May Be Less Violent
(In The End, Depending
On The Results In Medicaid, As
It May Yet Prove More Violent,)
Than This.
I Strongly Advocate Risk
Equalization Instead, As I
Think People Have Routinely
Used The Demagogue's
Idea Of Capitalism, Which
Is Monopoly And Controlling
Influence. As I Indicate
With Links Above And Below,
Its Mechanics Actually
Surprisingly Largely Overlap
Those Of California OneCare.
Risk Equalization Goes For
Potential Additional Measures
In Cost Control And Efficiency
Entirely Through Clinical
Rationalization, As Through
"Value-Basing," Though That
Is Where OneCare Also Shines,
By Way Of The Legitimate
Competitive Mechanism That
The Demagogues Falsely Claim
Exists In Their Programs.
Risk Equalization Means
Paying In/Receiving Out
To/From A Risk Equalizer And
Letting A Rich Market, No
Longer Immune From The
Anti-Trust Laws, Compete
Of Necessity On Clinically
Rational Terms, With Doctors
And Reimburses Matched
Through A Particularly
Vibrant Market Between
Each Other.
Physician-Owned HMO's Surely
Would Of Course Be Readily
Made For Such An Environment.
The Clinic Already Insisting,
Already Known Successfully,
On Just Letting Doctors Call
The Patient Management
Decisions May Well Form The
Core Of An Insurance
Environment. Earlier Experiences
In Blue Cross/Blue Shield, From
Prior To The Greater Part
Of The Art Learned In Weaning
Out Risky Patients, Would
Likely Serve Well Again.
Because Financial Assistance
Is Applied Across The Risk
Equalized System, In What
I Advocate, My Plan May
Be The Best In Avoiding
Quality Classing (Tiering.)
So This Is
Captive-Customers-Lite.
SEE
(The Low Risk Customers,
On The Other Hand Are
Headed For A Cost-Plus
Volume-Encouraged Space,
With Just Go Away Deductibles
Likely To Be The Only
Affordable Premiums For
Those Getting Risky.)
"The Many Ways The
Emptying Of Your
Pocket Is Protected"
A Note On Risk Adjustment
Payments Already Made To Some
Medicare Advantage Plans:
This Is Borderline Irrelevant To
The Issue Of Risk Equalization
Systemwide.
Taken As A Whole, Medicare Is
National Health Insurance For
Customers
The Cartel Does Not Want.
(A Real Life Analogy: When The
Airlines Hit Their Original Growth
Phase, The Railroads Only Wanted
To Handle Freight, So Amtrak
Was Born. Later, That Was Too
Much To Keep On Board For Some
Billionaire-Types, John Birchers, Etc.,
And So They’ve Wanted To Kill That
The Same Way They Keep Trying
To Marginalize Medicare (Medical
Savings Accounts Hand Your
Medical Finances Over To The
Banks, Including Your Favorite TBTF
Bank, And Create A Disincentive
To See Your Doctor.)
Systemwide Risk Equalization
Entails Payments To / From A
Central Risk / Funding Equalizer.
However, As You Can See From The
Above, After The Cartel Games The
Risk Such That The Easily Picked Fruit
Belongs To The Private Cartel And The
Troubled Fruit Becomes The Domain
Of The Taxpayer's Assistance, And In
This Case Risk, Not Simply Price, Is
Monopolistically Gamed, After That
Stage Is Reached, We End Up With Not
Risk Equalization But Rather The Very
Opposite:
Risk Subsidies Going Back To The Cartel.
SEE HOW THIS FITS
WITH OTHER PARALLELS
Above, After The Cartel Games The
Risk Such That The Easily Picked Fruit
Belongs To The Private Cartel And The
Troubled Fruit Becomes The Domain
Of The Taxpayer's Assistance, And In
This Case Risk, Not Simply Price, Is
Monopolistically Gamed, After That
Stage Is Reached, We End Up With Not
Risk Equalization But Rather The Very
Opposite:
Risk Subsidies Going Back To The Cartel.
SEE HOW THIS FITS
WITH OTHER PARALLELS
This Proposal Establishes
Capitalism For The First Time
In This Sector By Replacing The
Oligopolistic And Controlled
Asymmetric Apportionment Of Risk.
Ironically, The Foundational
Weaknesses Of Capitalism, The
Facts Of Imperfect Access To
Information, And The Fact Of
Theoretical Equal Information Access
And Non-Existence Of Barriers To
Entry Supposedly Which
In Reality Would Predispose Profit,
Or Else Functionally Worthwhile
Profit, In The First Place,
Are Overcome.
Despite Its Being Our Most
Intricate Sector, Health Care's
Necessities Of Productive Efficiency
And Productive Effectiveness
Mean It May Yet Be The Sector
Which Can Demonstrate How
Near-Theoretical Ideal
Capitalism Can Actually Work
On A National Or Even World
Scale.
10 Kids Selling Lemonade As
The Parade Goes By Is
Near-Ideal Capitalism.
Health Care Is Not
Selling Lemonade.
The Plan Requires (Near-)
Perfect Access To Information
And Provides It.
It's The Nature Of Health Care That
Discovery, While Making The
Sector Sometimes More Difficult
To Sustain In Terms Of Cost, Nonetheless
Wears On Its Sleeve The Fact The
Fact Of Discovery Expanding The
Size Of The Pie.
Some Discoveries Lower Cost.
Others Make Us Richer, While
Increasing Cost, Because It's
The Purpose Of Medical Care
To Sustain Human Capital.
If Our Society Finds Its Way
Toward More Constructive, Less
Divisive Discourse, Then
People Can Be Better Educated,
Healthier And Yes, Live Longer.
So This Ultimately Connects
With Everything That Can Be Treated
Either Fairly Or Unfairly, Including
Education, And Including Such
Things As Dynamic Comparative
Advantage. Ideally, Those Living
Longer And The Disadvantaged
Young Can Discover Engagement
Together And Help Show
Us Our Future.
And As To Discovery, By Ending
The Preposterous Role Of
Insurance Agent As Physician
Co-Pilot Risk Equalization Enables
Vastly More, Better Returning The
Clinic To Its Traditional
Vanguard Role.
The Health Care Sector Has
Followed In The Footsteps
Of Other Sectors Where
The Role Of The Corporation
Was Earlier Turned Crazy-
Eyed. LBO's, Likewise, Should
Be Allowed To Exist, Of Course,
As Being Part Of A Natural
Process Of Continuous Economic
Renewal, But They Too Could
Be Put In A Box That Prevents
Them From Engaging In
Behavior That's Only
Extractive, Not Constructive.
Perhaps More Logically
In The Democratic Party,
Such Reforms Should Be
Demanded By A New
Coalition, Though, I
Believe, Enterprise Zones,
A Success Story,
Emanated From The
Republican Party During
Better Times.
Doctors And Patients Have
Had Nothing To Do With It,
And Actually, The Blue Cross
And Blue Shield Pre-Dating
The Familiar Present
Experience Took Less
Advantage Of Their
Monopolistic Positions Than
Does The Present Cartel.
Just The Same, Risk
Equalization Aims To
Blow Out The Limitations
On Competition.
NEW
NEW TOO
Pre-Obamacare
Existing Replacement
My Replacement
More As To Comparisons
Better To Understand With,
Nothing Complicated
In The First Place
More Basically
A Cartel Taking Advantage Of
Your Own Ponzi-Like Instinct
And Effectively Shunning The Very
Business Of Insuring Against
The Unexpected While Gaming
Covering The Expected
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
CURRENTLY
CARE TO RECOMMEND?
(also)
Capitalism For The First Time
In This Sector By Replacing The
Oligopolistic And Controlled
Asymmetric Apportionment Of Risk.
Ironically, The Foundational
Weaknesses Of Capitalism, The
Facts Of Imperfect Access To
Information, And The Fact Of
Theoretical Equal Information Access
And Non-Existence Of Barriers To
Entry Supposedly Which
In Reality Would Predispose Profit,
Or Else Functionally Worthwhile
Profit, In The First Place,
Are Overcome.
Despite Its Being Our Most
Intricate Sector, Health Care's
Necessities Of Productive Efficiency
And Productive Effectiveness
Mean It May Yet Be The Sector
Which Can Demonstrate How
Near-Theoretical Ideal
Capitalism Can Actually Work
On A National Or Even World
Scale.
10 Kids Selling Lemonade As
The Parade Goes By Is
Near-Ideal Capitalism.
Health Care Is Not
Selling Lemonade.
The Plan Requires (Near-)
Perfect Access To Information
And Provides It.
It's The Nature Of Health Care That
Discovery, While Making The
Sector Sometimes More Difficult
To Sustain In Terms Of Cost, Nonetheless
Wears On Its Sleeve The Fact The
Fact Of Discovery Expanding The
Size Of The Pie.
Some Discoveries Lower Cost.
Others Make Us Richer, While
Increasing Cost, Because It's
The Purpose Of Medical Care
To Sustain Human Capital.
If Our Society Finds Its Way
Toward More Constructive, Less
Divisive Discourse, Then
People Can Be Better Educated,
Healthier And Yes, Live Longer.
So This Ultimately Connects
With Everything That Can Be Treated
Either Fairly Or Unfairly, Including
Education, And Including Such
Things As Dynamic Comparative
Advantage. Ideally, Those Living
Longer And The Disadvantaged
Young Can Discover Engagement
Together And Help Show
Us Our Future.
And As To Discovery, By Ending
The Preposterous Role Of
Insurance Agent As Physician
Co-Pilot Risk Equalization Enables
Vastly More, Better Returning The
Clinic To Its Traditional
Vanguard Role.
The Health Care Sector Has
Followed In The Footsteps
Of Other Sectors Where
The Role Of The Corporation
Was Earlier Turned Crazy-
Eyed. LBO's, Likewise, Should
Be Allowed To Exist, Of Course,
As Being Part Of A Natural
Process Of Continuous Economic
Renewal, But They Too Could
Be Put In A Box That Prevents
Them From Engaging In
Behavior That's Only
Extractive, Not Constructive.
Perhaps More Logically
In The Democratic Party,
Such Reforms Should Be
Demanded By A New
Coalition, Though, I
Believe, Enterprise Zones,
A Success Story,
Emanated From The
Republican Party During
Better Times.
Doctors And Patients Have
Had Nothing To Do With It,
And Actually, The Blue Cross
And Blue Shield Pre-Dating
The Familiar Present
Experience Took Less
Advantage Of Their
Monopolistic Positions Than
Does The Present Cartel.
Just The Same, Risk
Equalization Aims To
Blow Out The Limitations
On Competition.
NEW
NEW TOO
Pre-Obamacare
Existing Replacement
My Replacement
More As To Comparisons
Better To Understand With,
Nothing Complicated
In The First Place
More Basically
A Cartel Taking Advantage Of
Your Own Ponzi-Like Instinct
And Effectively Shunning The Very
Business Of Insuring Against
The Unexpected While Gaming
Covering The Expected
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
CURRENTLY
CARE TO RECOMMEND?
(also)
Here's Some Of The Latest In Cost
Control From Some Of
The Sectors' Titans.
1 2
I Propose Instead Of Enshrining
And Entrenching An Oligopoly or De
Facto New Utility Sector,
Telling It They Can Add Variously
15% Or 20% To Their Cost, Which
Volume Is Incentivized For Being
Increased, And Still Allowing Ample
Room For Gaming Risk,
Simply:
End The Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws
Equalize Risk (Risk Equalization.)
(Simple In Concept, Quite Difficult,
Admittedly, In Practice. And,
The Greatest Stumbling Block:
Entrenched Monopolies Don't
Go Quietly. I'm Here To Say
Precious Little Worthwhile In Life
Comes Easy, And No Matter
What The Demagogue Or His
Mouthpiece Says, There's Nothing
Capitalist About Monopoly.)
I Certainly Think People
Currently In Premium
Death Spirals Still Have
Something To Worry About.
I Think Doctors Are Still
Looking At Insurance
Agents Interfering With
Everything They Expected
From Life When They Were
In Medical School Planning
To Provide Rational, Capable
Care, And, For Many,
Unbridled Integration With
Clinical Advancement Of
The Science.
I Think Patients Are Still
Looking At Whether All
Their Future Med Tests
Will Be Appropriate
(I Want The Reader To
Trust Their Doctor, And
I Think They Should
Do That Today, But,
Generally, We're Still Not
Creating A System That
Makes That Process
A Given.)
Here's A Little As To The
Architect's Earlier Policies
(Offered As To Policy
Specifics, Not As To Signing
On To The Author's Titled
View Generally)
Walter To Jack, “Cocoon,”
(~) “Sometimes It’s Hard
To Know Whom To
Trust, Isn’t It Jack?”
This Checklist Thing, Long
Ago Proposed By Capt. Sullenberger,
Who Besides Being The Pilot Who
Saved USAir Flight 1167, Is Also
An Industrial Psychologist, Is
Now Empirically A Right Thing
To Implement.
Voici
Control From Some Of
The Sectors' Titans.
1 2
I Propose Instead Of Enshrining
And Entrenching An Oligopoly or De
Facto New Utility Sector,
Telling It They Can Add Variously
15% Or 20% To Their Cost, Which
Volume Is Incentivized For Being
Increased, And Still Allowing Ample
Room For Gaming Risk,
Simply:
End The Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws
Equalize Risk (Risk Equalization.)
(Simple In Concept, Quite Difficult,
Admittedly, In Practice. And,
The Greatest Stumbling Block:
Entrenched Monopolies Don't
Go Quietly. I'm Here To Say
Precious Little Worthwhile In Life
Comes Easy, And No Matter
What The Demagogue Or His
Mouthpiece Says, There's Nothing
Capitalist About Monopoly.)
I Certainly Think People
Currently In Premium
Death Spirals Still Have
Something To Worry About.
I Think Doctors Are Still
Looking At Insurance
Agents Interfering With
Everything They Expected
From Life When They Were
In Medical School Planning
To Provide Rational, Capable
Care, And, For Many,
Unbridled Integration With
Clinical Advancement Of
The Science.
I Think Patients Are Still
Looking At Whether All
Their Future Med Tests
Will Be Appropriate
(I Want The Reader To
Trust Their Doctor, And
I Think They Should
Do That Today, But,
Generally, We're Still Not
Creating A System That
Makes That Process
A Given.)
Here's A Little As To The
Architect's Earlier Policies
(Offered As To Policy
Specifics, Not As To Signing
On To The Author's Titled
View Generally)
Walter To Jack, “Cocoon,”
(~) “Sometimes It’s Hard
To Know Whom To
Trust, Isn’t It Jack?”
This Checklist Thing, Long
Ago Proposed By Capt. Sullenberger,
Who Besides Being The Pilot Who
Saved USAir Flight 1167, Is Also
An Industrial Psychologist, Is
Now Empirically A Right Thing
To Implement.
Voici
I Think The Pressuring Of
Persons With Risk Factor(s)
Into Just-Go-Away Deductibles
Is Conceivably The Very Most
Horribly Worst State Of Affairs
A Medical System Can Create; And,
Many Of These People Will Not
Qualify For Financial Support.
Now, Consider This.
Get Soc. Sec. Privatized.
Live By Annuities Alone.
Let TBTF Banks Kite Mortgage
Bubbles.
Let The "Central Bank" Give
Them Near Free Reserves And
Buy Their Value-Immensely-Overstated
Assets, Such That Those Who
Made RIGHT Decisions Get Savings
Income Bled Dry, Capital Formation-
Derailed, And Forced To Pay For
"Loss-Sharing" Against Their Own
Interest.
Let Those Living On The Annuities
See Their Interest Income Flattened
By The Same Process. Let Them Feel
Locked In Lest They Sell Out But
Then Pay On Deferred Taxes, Such That
They Can Then Afford Little Else But
Selling Chestnuts On The Street.
Now, Guy/Gal, You See, As I Do, How
Monopoly Can Ruin Your Day.
But Lobbying Isn't Simply
About Perfecting Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing In The
Utmost Sneaky Ways
(Actually, I Think Monopolistic
Abuse Is Rather Blatant In
The Communication Piping
Sector,) But All Kinds Of
Things.
Rubber Stamping Cost Overruns,
Shafting The Environment,
Gatekeeping To Advantage
Extractively, Etc.
The Opposite Is Very Easily
Undersood.
Persons With Risk Factor(s)
Into Just-Go-Away Deductibles
Is Conceivably The Very Most
Horribly Worst State Of Affairs
A Medical System Can Create; And,
Many Of These People Will Not
Qualify For Financial Support.
Now, Consider This.
Get Soc. Sec. Privatized.
Live By Annuities Alone.
Let TBTF Banks Kite Mortgage
Bubbles.
Let The "Central Bank" Give
Them Near Free Reserves And
Buy Their Value-Immensely-Overstated
Assets, Such That Those Who
Made RIGHT Decisions Get Savings
Income Bled Dry, Capital Formation-
Derailed, And Forced To Pay For
"Loss-Sharing" Against Their Own
Interest.
Let Those Living On The Annuities
See Their Interest Income Flattened
By The Same Process. Let Them Feel
Locked In Lest They Sell Out But
Then Pay On Deferred Taxes, Such That
They Can Then Afford Little Else But
Selling Chestnuts On The Street.
Now, Guy/Gal, You See, As I Do, How
Monopoly Can Ruin Your Day.
But Lobbying Isn't Simply
About Perfecting Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing In The
Utmost Sneaky Ways
(Actually, I Think Monopolistic
Abuse Is Rather Blatant In
The Communication Piping
Sector,) But All Kinds Of
Things.
Rubber Stamping Cost Overruns,
Shafting The Environment,
Gatekeeping To Advantage
Extractively, Etc.
The Opposite Is Very Easily
Undersood.
Post-Monopoly, The Carriers Would
ONLY Have Clinical Rationalization And
"Value-Basing," The Precise Opposite
Of Just-Go-Away Deductibles, To Work
With.
That. And A Lavish Market Between
Providers And Carriers.
Define Cost Containment In Risk
Equalization As I Envision It.
The Very Occassional Super-Clinic
Already Engages In Just-Do-The
Right-Thing Practice To The
Benefit Of The Patient And
Economic Efficiency.
Remember: Unreimbursed Costs
Are Already, And Always Have
Been, Passed Through
The System ("Cost Shifting.")
If The Above Structure
Provides Insufficienct
Efficiency (Bang For The
Buck Meaning Quality Of
Health Maintenance For
The Price) In Terms Of
Cost Containment, Then I
Think The Structure Itself
Creates A Community Of
Interest Among Carriers,
Providers And Patient
Organizations Such That They
Can Calmly Agree On
Incremental Guidelines.
The Idea Is If Everyone
Is In A System Structured
Such That Everyone Is
Being Fair With Everyone
Else (No One's Gaming
Risk,) Then These
Adjustments Can Be
Easily Reached.
I Happen To Think The High
Risk Exchanges, Substantially
Taxpayer Subsidized--
Remember, Medicare Is
National Health Insurance For
Patients The Carriers Don't
Want--Are Gamable Particularly
In Some States, Where There's
Less Sunshine.
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I Think One Of Risk
Equalization's Greatest
Strengths Is Minimizing
"Tiering" (Quality Classing.)
As Structured, And With
Information Made Widely
Available As To Carrier
Coverage Comparisons, And
With Physician and Carrier
Comparisons Richly
Available Between Each Other,
Any Clinical Efficiencies To
Be Had Should Be Had.
However, I'd Be Happy
Seeing California OneCare
Implemented Should That
Happen.
I Could Be Happy
With A French-Style
System.
1 2
All Systems Have To
Contend With The
Challenges Enumerated
Though.
I Prefer Risk Equalization.
How It Can Be Risk
Equalization, Or Leveling
The Risk-Concerned
Playing Field, And The
Above Plans Can Be
Similar
But Recall.
And Remember:
All Reimbursed Costs Have
Been, And Are, Fully
Passed Through The
System.
And I Happen To Be
Quite Concerned That
Over Time The High Risk
Exchanges In
ObamaCare Can End Up
Living Largely Tier-
Disadvantaged.
Risk Equalization
Mish-Mashes The Risk.
It, However, Assures
That Risk Is Played On
A Level Playing Field.
ObamaCare Supports
Discriminatory Monopolistic
Pricing By Subsidizing Risk
Separately.
Pre-Textual Failure Runs
Parallel To The
Close-But-Doesn't-Make-It
Deceptive Look-Alike But
Not-The-Same Public
Ballot Resolutions Put Forth
By Industry Aimed At
Frustrating Rationalization
Initiatives.
Our Lobby Industry Has
Become A Mastery Of
Deception.
Their People In Office
Reflect That.
ONLY Have Clinical Rationalization And
"Value-Basing," The Precise Opposite
Of Just-Go-Away Deductibles, To Work
With.
That. And A Lavish Market Between
Providers And Carriers.
Define Cost Containment In Risk
Equalization As I Envision It.
The Very Occassional Super-Clinic
Already Engages In Just-Do-The
Right-Thing Practice To The
Benefit Of The Patient And
Economic Efficiency.
Remember: Unreimbursed Costs
Are Already, And Always Have
Been, Passed Through
The System ("Cost Shifting.")
If The Above Structure
Provides Insufficienct
Efficiency (Bang For The
Buck Meaning Quality Of
Health Maintenance For
The Price) In Terms Of
Cost Containment, Then I
Think The Structure Itself
Creates A Community Of
Interest Among Carriers,
Providers And Patient
Organizations Such That They
Can Calmly Agree On
Incremental Guidelines.
The Idea Is If Everyone
Is In A System Structured
Such That Everyone Is
Being Fair With Everyone
Else (No One's Gaming
Risk,) Then These
Adjustments Can Be
Easily Reached.
I Happen To Think The High
Risk Exchanges, Substantially
Taxpayer Subsidized--
Remember, Medicare Is
National Health Insurance For
Patients The Carriers Don't
Want--Are Gamable Particularly
In Some States, Where There's
Less Sunshine.
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-----
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I Think One Of Risk
Equalization's Greatest
Strengths Is Minimizing
"Tiering" (Quality Classing.)
As Structured, And With
Information Made Widely
Available As To Carrier
Coverage Comparisons, And
With Physician and Carrier
Comparisons Richly
Available Between Each Other,
Any Clinical Efficiencies To
Be Had Should Be Had.
However, I'd Be Happy
Seeing California OneCare
Implemented Should That
Happen.
I Could Be Happy
With A French-Style
System.
1 2
All Systems Have To
Contend With The
Challenges Enumerated
Though.
I Prefer Risk Equalization.
How It Can Be Risk
Equalization, Or Leveling
The Risk-Concerned
Playing Field, And The
Above Plans Can Be
Similar
But Recall.
And Remember:
All Reimbursed Costs Have
Been, And Are, Fully
Passed Through The
System.
And I Happen To Be
Quite Concerned That
Over Time The High Risk
Exchanges In
ObamaCare Can End Up
Living Largely Tier-
Disadvantaged.
Risk Equalization
Mish-Mashes The Risk.
It, However, Assures
That Risk Is Played On
A Level Playing Field.
ObamaCare Supports
Discriminatory Monopolistic
Pricing By Subsidizing Risk
Separately.
Pre-Textual Failure Runs
Parallel To The
Close-But-Doesn't-Make-It
Deceptive Look-Alike But
Not-The-Same Public
Ballot Resolutions Put Forth
By Industry Aimed At
Frustrating Rationalization
Initiatives.
Our Lobby Industry Has
Become A Mastery Of
Deception.
Their People In Office
Reflect That.
Medicareadvocacy Chart
(Which Has Bearing
Beyond Medicare And
In Which The Ryan
Competition-Related
Assertions Bear No
Relation To A World
Post-Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws)
Risk Equalization Envisions
Eliminating Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws And
Replacing Just-Go-Away
Deductibles With
Value-Based Policies; And,
It Then Becomes Surprisingly
Similar To California OneCare
And The European Plans
RECALL
(Which Has Bearing
Beyond Medicare And
In Which The Ryan
Competition-Related
Assertions Bear No
Relation To A World
Post-Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws)
Risk Equalization Envisions
Eliminating Immunity From
The Anti-Trust Laws And
Replacing Just-Go-Away
Deductibles With
Value-Based Policies; And,
It Then Becomes Surprisingly
Similar To California OneCare
And The European Plans
RECALL
I’ve proposed a bi-directional
double-pyramided health education /
health information system
applying the record-keeping of
the likes of MSN Health Vault, the
architecture of Google Docs,
and 2 way filtering down from
providers and up from receivers,
applying to individuals, subsets,
and the general population, on the
one hand, and providers:
individual, subsets, and
generally on the other hand.
The Idea Is Not Creating The
Health Care Equivalent Of
Big Brother But Nonetheless Not
Leaving People Walking Around
With Unmet Physical And Emotional
Needs.
Even People With Coverage
Today Can Feel Lacking In
Direction As To Ill-Defined Need.
Though An Architecture Like
OneCare May Be The Ideal
Receptacle, The Existing
Patchwork Is Really No Problem
At All, Allowing For Purpose-Based
Google Docs-Like Permissioning,
Combined With A 007-Style
Need-To-Know Policy.
Data Bases Can Be Merged
For Consolidated Predictive
Modeling, Proximately Useful
Algorithms Can Be Outsourced
Through Permissioning.
Even Centralized
Organizational Assistance
And Outsourcing Can
Be Facilitated.
Independently
Permissioned Systems
Can Be Linked Vertically
And Horizontally. With
All Gateways Anticipated,
It Becomes 2 Clicks
For The User.
Most Of What This Is About Is
Addressing Group Education,
But Not Just As To Disease
Management On Up To Broader
Or Down To Personal Advice,
But Teaching When To Know
To Seek Help And How To
Obtain It.
It Becomes A Conduit For
Anything.
Ex. 1
Ex. 2
The aim is health maintenance with
education and information tailored
to the particular
population, group and individuals.
The system allows for an infinity
of “tributaries,” reflecting
policy aims, as also here suggested.
A state marijuana user
fee-funded usage monitoring
system is one logical starting
point. A central virtual
commons can include
commercial interaction and
ad-based funding. States can
electively outsource system
management.
All health providers
can make good use of
such a system. Personally mindful
of the common problem of people
simply not having loved ones
available to drive them home from
clinical visits rendering them groggy,
social workers and family therapists,
for instance, can, on a population-
staged basis, address such issues
as spouses caught up in the
blame game. On many levels,
the success of mate-hood is critical
to successful health maintenance.
This Is An Ever Present Concern.
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Thus This Is An Incremental Concept
As Epidemiologics And Data Collection
Go, Though, Frankly, Existing Systems
May Well Need An Efficient Super-Structure
Even Absent Concern For Finding
The Unmet Need And Eliciting New
Patient Self-Awareness.
double-pyramided health education /
health information system
applying the record-keeping of
the likes of MSN Health Vault, the
architecture of Google Docs,
and 2 way filtering down from
providers and up from receivers,
applying to individuals, subsets,
and the general population, on the
one hand, and providers:
individual, subsets, and
generally on the other hand.
The Idea Is Not Creating The
Health Care Equivalent Of
Big Brother But Nonetheless Not
Leaving People Walking Around
With Unmet Physical And Emotional
Needs.
Even People With Coverage
Today Can Feel Lacking In
Direction As To Ill-Defined Need.
Though An Architecture Like
OneCare May Be The Ideal
Receptacle, The Existing
Patchwork Is Really No Problem
At All, Allowing For Purpose-Based
Google Docs-Like Permissioning,
Combined With A 007-Style
Need-To-Know Policy.
Data Bases Can Be Merged
For Consolidated Predictive
Modeling, Proximately Useful
Algorithms Can Be Outsourced
Through Permissioning.
Even Centralized
Organizational Assistance
And Outsourcing Can
Be Facilitated.
Independently
Permissioned Systems
Can Be Linked Vertically
And Horizontally. With
All Gateways Anticipated,
It Becomes 2 Clicks
For The User.
Most Of What This Is About Is
Addressing Group Education,
But Not Just As To Disease
Management On Up To Broader
Or Down To Personal Advice,
But Teaching When To Know
To Seek Help And How To
Obtain It.
It Becomes A Conduit For
Anything.
Ex. 1
Ex. 2
The aim is health maintenance with
education and information tailored
to the particular
population, group and individuals.
The system allows for an infinity
of “tributaries,” reflecting
policy aims, as also here suggested.
A state marijuana user
fee-funded usage monitoring
system is one logical starting
point. A central virtual
commons can include
commercial interaction and
ad-based funding. States can
electively outsource system
management.
All health providers
can make good use of
such a system. Personally mindful
of the common problem of people
simply not having loved ones
available to drive them home from
clinical visits rendering them groggy,
social workers and family therapists,
for instance, can, on a population-
staged basis, address such issues
as spouses caught up in the
blame game. On many levels,
the success of mate-hood is critical
to successful health maintenance.
This Is An Ever Present Concern.
------
------
------
------
------
Thus This Is An Incremental Concept
As Epidemiologics And Data Collection
Go, Though, Frankly, Existing Systems
May Well Need An Efficient Super-Structure
Even Absent Concern For Finding
The Unmet Need And Eliciting New
Patient Self-Awareness.
Health System Data Collection
And Analysis, Pertaining Anything,
From Quality Measures To Needs
Measures, Is A Massive Topic
Easily Searched. I Propose,
Additionally, An Interactive Double-
Pyramided, Base To Base Information
System, With Health Education,
Clinical Advice, And Physicians'
Patient-Tailored Guidelines Flowing
One Way, Community, Sub-Group,
Specially Targeted Group, And
Individual Patients' Data
Flowing Another.
This Can Serve Any Health Purpose,
Including Those Impacting On Regional
Administrative Policy, Such As
A Program Defusing Marijuana
Criminality, Collecting Public For Public
Rather Than Nefarious Purposes,
While Actually Keeping In Touch
With What People Are Wisely Or
Unwisely Doing With Their Stuff.
My Interest Is In Protecting Their
Families As Much As Themselves.
Their Health Status Is Intertwined.
"How a Squirt of Oxytocin Could
Ease Marital Spats and Boos
t Social Sensitivity Oxytocin focuses
our eyes—and our brains—on love.
It could help troubled couples
as well as autistic people"
The Effect, Though, Would I Think
Only Be To Send MORE People
Looking At Initiatives Like
(Website Will Never
Contain Infomercials)
This One.
And Analysis, Pertaining Anything,
From Quality Measures To Needs
Measures, Is A Massive Topic
Easily Searched. I Propose,
Additionally, An Interactive Double-
Pyramided, Base To Base Information
System, With Health Education,
Clinical Advice, And Physicians'
Patient-Tailored Guidelines Flowing
One Way, Community, Sub-Group,
Specially Targeted Group, And
Individual Patients' Data
Flowing Another.
This Can Serve Any Health Purpose,
Including Those Impacting On Regional
Administrative Policy, Such As
A Program Defusing Marijuana
Criminality, Collecting Public For Public
Rather Than Nefarious Purposes,
While Actually Keeping In Touch
With What People Are Wisely Or
Unwisely Doing With Their Stuff.
My Interest Is In Protecting Their
Families As Much As Themselves.
Their Health Status Is Intertwined.
"How a Squirt of Oxytocin Could
Ease Marital Spats and Boos
t Social Sensitivity Oxytocin focuses
our eyes—and our brains—on love.
It could help troubled couples
as well as autistic people"
The Effect, Though, Would I Think
Only Be To Send MORE People
Looking At Initiatives Like
(Website Will Never
Contain Infomercials)
This One.
Mayor
Default
Judgement
Has Arrested Nurses
Rendering Care
It's Precisely The
People He Arrested
Who Belong In Office
For Me, If A Mandate Is Held
Valid By Reason Or Its Being A
Tax, Then The Oligopoly's
Statutory Immunity From The
Anti-Trust Laws And The Concomitant
Arrangement Whereby High
Risk Customers Reasonably Expected
To Be Priced Out And Thus Covered By
The Tax-Subsidized High Risk
Exchanges, Imply, Though
This Is NOT Legal Advice, That
There Exists A State Authorized,
State Protected, Oligopoly.
Though Obamacare Guarantees a
Large, Easily Gamed Cost-Plus-Based
Profit And Fosters A High-Volume-
Encouraged Gameplan, And May Well
Engender The Emergence Of A
Second Tier, At Least It's Better Than
What For Many Sooner Or Later
Amounted Hearing From Their Insurer,
Seeing A Known Risk Factor,
"I'm Going To Make You An
Offer You Can't Refuse."
A Plus, It Likely Will Accelerate
The Emergence Of "Value
Based Insurance Design," That
Is, Clinically More Rational
Cost Of Service Structure,
Particularly, I Would Say, vs.
"Just Go Away" Deductibles.
The Great Many Americans Who've
Been Traveling Outside The U.S.
For Medical Care And
Pharmaceuticals Have Surely
Known Something
Has Been Irrational And Unfair.
Valid By Reason Or Its Being A
Tax, Then The Oligopoly's
Statutory Immunity From The
Anti-Trust Laws And The Concomitant
Arrangement Whereby High
Risk Customers Reasonably Expected
To Be Priced Out And Thus Covered By
The Tax-Subsidized High Risk
Exchanges, Imply, Though
This Is NOT Legal Advice, That
There Exists A State Authorized,
State Protected, Oligopoly.
Though Obamacare Guarantees a
Large, Easily Gamed Cost-Plus-Based
Profit And Fosters A High-Volume-
Encouraged Gameplan, And May Well
Engender The Emergence Of A
Second Tier, At Least It's Better Than
What For Many Sooner Or Later
Amounted Hearing From Their Insurer,
Seeing A Known Risk Factor,
"I'm Going To Make You An
Offer You Can't Refuse."
A Plus, It Likely Will Accelerate
The Emergence Of "Value
Based Insurance Design," That
Is, Clinically More Rational
Cost Of Service Structure,
Particularly, I Would Say, vs.
"Just Go Away" Deductibles.
The Great Many Americans Who've
Been Traveling Outside The U.S.
For Medical Care And
Pharmaceuticals Have Surely
Known Something
Has Been Irrational And Unfair.
I very much welcome ideas for
breaking down the structures of
polarization, be they by way of
“The Righteous Mind” or other.
As to fairness, I believe known risk is
unfairly gamed. I believe that when
the cartel prefers attempting to shoot
down any program that supplants simple
cherry picking of risk-free or low-risk
customers, they then take advantage of
people’s not having considered simple
chance, or “fat tails” (taken to the
extreme) as economists would
call it, this even though the cartel know
better than anyone that in health
care there’s really no such thing
as “chance:”
you will all need major medical
intervention sooner or later.
1
2:
(Fat Tails / It’s One Thing To Game
Known Risk, It’s Another To Game The
Wide Universe Of Chance And Tell
You That’s What You Should Want.
(I Suggest Right
Treatment of Risk.
The Health Cartel's
Treatment Of Risk And
Even Broader Treatment
Of Wider Risk ("Fat Tails")
Bears A Parallel To The
Banking Crisis:
Bet On Derivatives,
Amounting To 30X Bank Equity,
Based On A Self-Created
Mortgage Bubble, And
Make All Who SOLD The
Bubble Pay For Bailing
The Banks. Then, Too,
The Former Gets Zilch
On The Income From Their
Proceeds Or Savings Otherwise,
The Banks Getting $Trillions
In Near Free Reserves.
What Will Result From That
Besides The Current Unspoken
But Obvious Policy of Erring
On The Side Of High
Unemployment, Are The
"Fat Tails" YOU Have
To Deal With.
I call this Ponzi / Jaws health care,
and when it's presented in this
manner so as to perpetuate a
system that treats risk unfairly
while being clinically irrational
and often devastating to famlies,
it reminds me of this.
The payoff side of this duplicitous
arguing on behalf of the cartel
has included assertions about
"right-shifting" of co-morbidities
negating the value of preventionism.
Their own admissions as to what
is / is not "right-shifted" suffices to
render these assertions much
less relevant.
The very idea of opposing
preventionism, whether or not
that includes arguments
pertaining early intervention,
cohesive health education, or
whatever, it:
implies health status-now
is devalued as a measure of
objectives achieved;
makes brash assumptions
as to the overall cost of
morbidities addressed
lengthily vs. co-morbidities
addressed right-shifted
scrunched together;
And, it just lets people progress
absent preventionism and
writes them off when
their morbidities accumulate?
In other words, it's not the
progressives who want
to pull the plug on grandma,
it's the cartel.
Morbidities should be
avoided near-term with
preventionism, without
regard to right-shifting,
because it's the very
purpose of medicine
to keep people healthy.
breaking down the structures of
polarization, be they by way of
“The Righteous Mind” or other.
As to fairness, I believe known risk is
unfairly gamed. I believe that when
the cartel prefers attempting to shoot
down any program that supplants simple
cherry picking of risk-free or low-risk
customers, they then take advantage of
people’s not having considered simple
chance, or “fat tails” (taken to the
extreme) as economists would
call it, this even though the cartel know
better than anyone that in health
care there’s really no such thing
as “chance:”
you will all need major medical
intervention sooner or later.
1
2:
(Fat Tails / It’s One Thing To Game
Known Risk, It’s Another To Game The
Wide Universe Of Chance And Tell
You That’s What You Should Want.
(I Suggest Right
Treatment of Risk.
The Health Cartel's
Treatment Of Risk And
Even Broader Treatment
Of Wider Risk ("Fat Tails")
Bears A Parallel To The
Banking Crisis:
Bet On Derivatives,
Amounting To 30X Bank Equity,
Based On A Self-Created
Mortgage Bubble, And
Make All Who SOLD The
Bubble Pay For Bailing
The Banks. Then, Too,
The Former Gets Zilch
On The Income From Their
Proceeds Or Savings Otherwise,
The Banks Getting $Trillions
In Near Free Reserves.
What Will Result From That
Besides The Current Unspoken
But Obvious Policy of Erring
On The Side Of High
Unemployment, Are The
"Fat Tails" YOU Have
To Deal With.
I call this Ponzi / Jaws health care,
and when it's presented in this
manner so as to perpetuate a
system that treats risk unfairly
while being clinically irrational
and often devastating to famlies,
it reminds me of this.
The payoff side of this duplicitous
arguing on behalf of the cartel
has included assertions about
"right-shifting" of co-morbidities
negating the value of preventionism.
Their own admissions as to what
is / is not "right-shifted" suffices to
render these assertions much
less relevant.
The very idea of opposing
preventionism, whether or not
that includes arguments
pertaining early intervention,
cohesive health education, or
whatever, it:
implies health status-now
is devalued as a measure of
objectives achieved;
makes brash assumptions
as to the overall cost of
morbidities addressed
lengthily vs. co-morbidities
addressed right-shifted
scrunched together;
And, it just lets people progress
absent preventionism and
writes them off when
their morbidities accumulate?
In other words, it's not the
progressives who want
to pull the plug on grandma,
it's the cartel.
Morbidities should be
avoided near-term with
preventionism, without
regard to right-shifting,
because it's the very
purpose of medicine
to keep people healthy.
As To "Engagement"
And Actual, Innovative
Public Health Measures
And Health Education,
See:
Ostrich Index
Vulnerability Index
Health Engagement Management
The Buzz: Social Interactions
Healing Older Brains
(Me: And Then, Mind To Body,
Body To Mind, Would Imply
Physical Health--By The Way,
It's Anecdotally Well Known
Computer Usage Aids Older
Persons Tremendously--
A Sea Change)
Health Information And
Health Education Systems
Are Connected Respectively
With Separate Proposals But
Are Somewhat Clumped
Here
Formally Integrating Formal
Communications Skillsets Into
Health Information And Health
Education Systems May Have
Another Model
My Plan, A Variation, Generally, Of
What's Existed In Europe For A
Long Time, Established Capitalism
For The First Time In A Long Time
In U.S. Healthcare, Though Many
In The Cartel Leadership Have
Been Quick To Apply The Word
Socialist To Others.
The Fact Is, And This Is Not
As To My Plan, Only A Single-
Provider System Entirely
Eliminates "Gatekeeping."
Imagine That One Internet
Utility Is Free And A Look-Alike
Is For-Fee. Imagine The Latter
Requires You To Invest Lots Of
Time Satisfying That Provider's
Gatekeeping Needs.
Imagine To That The Gatekeeping
In And Of Itself Boosts the
Cost Of That Service.
(My Plan, Of Course, Is
NOT Single-Payer Based.
It Simply Makes Fair
The Treatment Of Risk.)
Of course, I know every reader
is on my side.
Because I believe in every
person happy / healthy.
ENEN reverse-engineers
from every person happy / healthy.
I see no conflict with
Adam Smith NOT-slandered.
This Section Works
In Tandem With The
Ideas Offered Here
And Actual, Innovative
Public Health Measures
And Health Education,
See:
Ostrich Index
Vulnerability Index
Health Engagement Management
The Buzz: Social Interactions
Healing Older Brains
(Me: And Then, Mind To Body,
Body To Mind, Would Imply
Physical Health--By The Way,
It's Anecdotally Well Known
Computer Usage Aids Older
Persons Tremendously--
A Sea Change)
Health Information And
Health Education Systems
Are Connected Respectively
With Separate Proposals But
Are Somewhat Clumped
Here
Formally Integrating Formal
Communications Skillsets Into
Health Information And Health
Education Systems May Have
Another Model
My Plan, A Variation, Generally, Of
What's Existed In Europe For A
Long Time, Established Capitalism
For The First Time In A Long Time
In U.S. Healthcare, Though Many
In The Cartel Leadership Have
Been Quick To Apply The Word
Socialist To Others.
The Fact Is, And This Is Not
As To My Plan, Only A Single-
Provider System Entirely
Eliminates "Gatekeeping."
Imagine That One Internet
Utility Is Free And A Look-Alike
Is For-Fee. Imagine The Latter
Requires You To Invest Lots Of
Time Satisfying That Provider's
Gatekeeping Needs.
Imagine To That The Gatekeeping
In And Of Itself Boosts the
Cost Of That Service.
(My Plan, Of Course, Is
NOT Single-Payer Based.
It Simply Makes Fair
The Treatment Of Risk.)
Of course, I know every reader
is on my side.
Because I believe in every
person happy / healthy.
ENEN reverse-engineers
from every person happy / healthy.
I see no conflict with
Adam Smith NOT-slandered.
This Section Works
In Tandem With The
Ideas Offered Here
WHEN YOU SAY YOU DON'T
WANT TO HAVE TO BUY HEALTH
INSURANCE, YOU'RE BEING EXACTLY
LIKE ANY PONZI ARTIST -- SELF-
DECEPTIVELY MAKING A DUBIOUS
BET THAT OTHERS WILL PAY FOR.
YOUR COST WILL BE SHIFTED INTO
EVERYONE ELSE'S PREMIUMS, THE
CARRIERS NOT CARING, AS THEY
HAVE A PRE-DEFINED, SELF-
DETERMINED, PRIVILEGED CAN'T
LOSE LIMITED RISK.
TO SAY YOU'LL SIMPLY BUY
INTO A GUARANTEED AVAILABLE
POOL ONLY WHEN YOU NEED IT
URGENTLY IS TO BE A THIEF
(IT'S ALSO CLINICALLY FOOLISH.)
To Explain That "Talking
Point" Style:
A Cartel Taking Advantage Of Your
Own Ponzi-Like Instinct
And Effectively Shunning The Very
Business Of Insuring Against
The Unexpected While Gaming
Covering The Expected
The needs of health care cannot wait
(do the link-loops; get curious: known
risk co-opted; happenstance co-opted)
Go Full Circle And Understand
long for people to break free from
false blame defending demagoguery
and high principles held in your
face but not practiced by the
demagogues. This was their first
secret.
**CORE**
Absent Something
Like That, THEN
Something Like
This Works For Me
(now commenting
on points there)
TALKING
POINTS
NHS Reforms Will Betray
Generations To Come
USDA Confirms
California Mad Cow Case
(Vectors Fanning Out, Magnitude of
Change Deepening, Those Two
Things Only Compounding, In Terms of
Opportunistic Range, and Issues of
Local Opportunity, Changes in
Virulence, Etc., Are All Potential
Influencers In Disease Incidence)
Self-Destruction For Profit Is
Economically and Clinically
Going The Wrong Way
Use that apparently isolated case as
a mind experiment--commonplace
disruption to our adaptability.
New Questions As To
Mad Cow Vectoring
Basis Related Pathogens
Changes in organisms'
ecological ranges, relative
virulence, and all manner of
environmentally induced /
accelerated genetic changes,
those all reverberating
back on all these factors, and
concomitant new organisms'
"opportunities,"
all relate to any given existing or
de novo infection.
With growing concern
(SEE)
about increased radiation detected,
U.S. West Coast:
Iodine loading of the thyroid for
preventing radiation absorption is
obviously somthing consumers
shouldn't do absent supervision.
WHY
The lower in the food chain your
food comes from, the less
concentrated will be the radiation.
In health care, insurance has been
sold for coverage against the unlikely,
and it's been sold as if it would
cover the likely.
It has in reality been aimed at not
covering the likely, and when the likely
has become apparent, its coverage has
been in a feudal-imitative manner
(men (and women) owning men
(and women.))
Understand simply, Medicare exists
because a health insurance cartel
didn't want to cover older persons.
It's national health insurance for
unwanted customers.
Rather than a "public option,"
ObamaCare replaces this with
the Government paying for most
others the cartel doesn't care to
cover, actually incentivizing having
MORE volume by way of the
guaranteed large profit margin
(particularly when placed on top
of an easily fudged, large
admin cost figure.)
Even after 2014 there arises
a strong incentive to continue
the choice of "premium death
spiral" or "go naked," especially
relying on devices like
"Just Go Away" deductibles,
but with the premium marching
upward quickly anyway, because,
though Obamacare guarantees
them cost-plus, the mix-bag
of coverages offered lower
risk patients is easily skewed
to gain a larger customer base,
offering premiums to low
risk customers subsidized by
high risk customers, the latter
ultimatedly, as explained,
ultimately going to the
high risk exchanges, taxpayer
subsidized, and very possibly
en route to 2d tier status,
even thought the government
will surely be more determined
to institute rationalization
devices, such as "value
based insurance design."
SEE MORE AS TO SUCH
THINGS AS VALUE BASED
INSURANCE DESIGN (A PLUS)
AND POTENTIAL TIERING OF
HEALTH CARE OVERALL
AS TO OBAMACARE, AS
WELL AS TO UNFAIR
TREATMENT OF RISK.
The Medical Loss Ratio Being
Company-Wide, The Cartel Can
Still, Even After The 2014 Ban On
Exclusions, Price Out Risky
Customers.
Aside From The "MLR" Being
Easily Gamed, Pricing Out
Risk Affords A More Competitive
Presentation To Healthier
Customers
(MY IDEA)
However, a system that is not
based on heads I win, tails
you lose, in that manner is
otherwise easily created.
More Formally Here
The closest parallel to this would
be Amtrak. Passenger car travel is far
more costly than is mass transit, in
many/most instances (the exceptions
are where mass transit programs are
"pre-textually" created for self-failure
or for purposes of "pork,") measured
in cost per passenger-mile, but it wasn't
profitable enough or profitable at all,
particularly, by historic chance, when
air travel became popular. So,
naturally, rail had the Government
take it. That's rather heads I win,
tails you lose, too, wouldn't you say?
This can be returned to a don't con
me state by indexing need of application
vs. volume disadvantage, followed by a
mechanism for compensating for the
private entity's involvement in a
less inviting market segment.
However, in the case of
mass transit, the roll
out of all the flex tech, combined
with IT, and the integration
of different systems may actually
be better done by government,
so long as government's goal is
serving communities,
not sellers of hardware.
Obamacare, Legal Issues, And More
(Find evernewecon
at Wharton Knowledge
(3 comments to accomodate the volume))
This
part means, in essence, you are already
paying against your own volition for the
uninsured's coverage, though your carrier's
pre-defined,limited risk means it gets a "Go
To Pre-Defined Profit, Do Pass Go" pass.
WHY EDUCATION IS OUR MOST
IMPORTANT JOB, AND HOW
THAT RELATES TO TODAY'S
ISSUES
(find evernewecon)
New Reason Why
PTA's Are Important
Just removing the heads
I win, tails you lose
element isn't such a chore.
Some Basic Aims, Here With An
Application Modeled on a
Modified Carbon
Tax Scheme
in application, incremental from this
(no connection to ENEN)
2 MORE COMMENTS, THIS PAGE
COMMENT / HEALTH POLICY,
EMPLOYMENT, INTERSTATE COMMERCE
You've been in a health casino
all along. It's simply been
a game where the carrier can't
lose and you've been served
at sufference.
The only limitation to how
climate change can affect
human "epidemiologics" is
the infinity of space beyond
the ignorance contained in
our arrogance.
Lettin' Off Steam Time
Just Being Happy Matters
(Body to Mind, Mind to Body,
The Chemistry Increasingly
Citable)
Actually, I Don't Believe The
Unhappy Person Is A Healthy
Person, So, Looking Beyond The
Normal Recuperative Roles Of The
Like Of Grief, And Mindful Of The
Natural Roles Of Things Like
Anandamide (Human Endorphin
Helps You Forget--Is Very Similar
To THC, The Active Chemical
In Marijuana)
I'm Proposing More Formal
Public Health Intervention In
Emotional And Social Inputs,
In Terms Of Generic Health
Education Generally, But
Also Researching Contravening
In Such Issues As Bullying.
(I Also Don't Believe The
Unfortunate Person Should
Be Scapegoated For His/Her
Misfortune. I Also Believe That
Given Well-Intention-ed Structure
And Process No Individual Lacks
For Gainful Purpose. I Also Believe
Those Complaining About "A Fiscal
Cliff" Should Look At The Prior
Policies Penalizing All But
The Billionaires.)
The Framers Mandated Health
Coverage for Employees AND
Employee Acquisition
of Hospital Coverage
(Federal Statutes. Why Special?
Some of the Authors
WROTE THE CONSTITUTION)
Obama's Markedly
Unimpressive
Replacement
(Thereafter)
This Website Proposes, Otherwise
Chances are excellent, prior to
your reaching eligibility for Medicare,
should that program not be shafted
to compensate for heads I win
tails you lose based inefficiencies in
health care and other major sectors,
and Medicare is simply National Health
Insurance for people the cartel does
not want, that you will be handed
a choice of: "go naked" or "premium
death spiral."
The basis for it will be
demagoguery--hot
air.
80/85% MLR (medical loss ratio,
or 15/20% operational profit,) by
statute under ObamaCare, the
profit only limited by volume,
preventionism thus dis-
incentivized (which is also the
case with medical service accounts,
which is not something asserted
out by many people, except I do,)
is not sufficient for the Texas
Legislature, where punishing
premiums surpass that profit
rate. They will not rebate the
difference to their constituents
in Texas, though one State
Senator has tried changing that.
This (referral networks)
entails many issues.
At ProPublica--An Issue
Particularly With Obama's
Plan Encouraging High
Volume, Though ENEN
Considers Provider Abuses
Being Very Rare (<3%)
Frankly, what I really care
about, is someone should be
policing whether people are
getting referrals suspiciously
often, though profitably, from
particular practitioners.
And, also frankly, I would
want to see this simply tested
in the area of general dentistry,
where (a tiny minority
of...) dentists may produce
an inordinate number of
patients needing getting rescued.
If I can think of a nicer way of
putting that, I'll use it.
Q. (Don't Peek At The Answ. Too Soon)
Why would the Alaska Legislature
love it in my dental clinic?
A. Cause it's drill drill drill.
Actually, dental care goes forex
today. If you need a gold crown,
it's that gold that today will easily
constitute the larger portion of your
expense, and that's because people
worry about
this
and
this,
which does not really bear on
any monetary vs. fiscal policy
approach argument, such as where
Prof. Meltzer is addressing
monetary policy, and where Richard
Koo would say it's pushing on a
string after a debt bubble.
That approach provides I.V. feeding
to the TBTF banks in a manner
requiring monumental amounts
of near free reserves and an
environment of nominal interest rates.
That it would be so
disruptive to both dentist and patient
is something not to be missed and,
at least now it's noted by little ole moi.
Earliest Findings:
Broader Coverage
Yields Less Emergency
Room Use
Why Large Banks Love Your
Having a Choice of "Go Naked"
Or "Premium Death Spirals"
Coverage for Employees AND
Employee Acquisition
of Hospital Coverage
(Federal Statutes. Why Special?
Some of the Authors
WROTE THE CONSTITUTION)
Obama's Markedly
Unimpressive
Replacement
(Thereafter)
This Website Proposes, Otherwise
Chances are excellent, prior to
your reaching eligibility for Medicare,
should that program not be shafted
to compensate for heads I win
tails you lose based inefficiencies in
health care and other major sectors,
and Medicare is simply National Health
Insurance for people the cartel does
not want, that you will be handed
a choice of: "go naked" or "premium
death spiral."
The basis for it will be
demagoguery--hot
air.
80/85% MLR (medical loss ratio,
or 15/20% operational profit,) by
statute under ObamaCare, the
profit only limited by volume,
preventionism thus dis-
incentivized (which is also the
case with medical service accounts,
which is not something asserted
out by many people, except I do,)
is not sufficient for the Texas
Legislature, where punishing
premiums surpass that profit
rate. They will not rebate the
difference to their constituents
in Texas, though one State
Senator has tried changing that.
This (referral networks)
entails many issues.
At ProPublica--An Issue
Particularly With Obama's
Plan Encouraging High
Volume, Though ENEN
Considers Provider Abuses
Being Very Rare (<3%)
Frankly, what I really care
about, is someone should be
policing whether people are
getting referrals suspiciously
often, though profitably, from
particular practitioners.
And, also frankly, I would
want to see this simply tested
in the area of general dentistry,
where (a tiny minority
of...) dentists may produce
an inordinate number of
patients needing getting rescued.
If I can think of a nicer way of
putting that, I'll use it.
Q. (Don't Peek At The Answ. Too Soon)
Why would the Alaska Legislature
love it in my dental clinic?
A. Cause it's drill drill drill.
Actually, dental care goes forex
today. If you need a gold crown,
it's that gold that today will easily
constitute the larger portion of your
expense, and that's because people
worry about
this
and
this,
which does not really bear on
any monetary vs. fiscal policy
approach argument, such as where
Prof. Meltzer is addressing
monetary policy, and where Richard
Koo would say it's pushing on a
string after a debt bubble.
That approach provides I.V. feeding
to the TBTF banks in a manner
requiring monumental amounts
of near free reserves and an
environment of nominal interest rates.
That it would be so
disruptive to both dentist and patient
is something not to be missed and,
at least now it's noted by little ole moi.
Earliest Findings:
Broader Coverage
Yields Less Emergency
Room Use
Why Large Banks Love Your
Having a Choice of "Go Naked"
Or "Premium Death Spirals"
As physicians are cited
responding to this, it must be true
the proposal was actually made.
Though personally familiar with
the American and Canadian tourist
occasionally buying some popular
prescription drugs for him / her self
at places such as this (Puerto
Vallarta, pharmacy in the back,) at least
for me I consider this proposal as
actually sending a dangerous message;
and if it were effectuated, likely
to add to cost.
Analogize: you test-apply carpet
cleaner before you actually use it.
Many / most drugs, even sporting
the most innocuous images, carry
the sorts of risks any poison carries,
each drug being a + vs. - decision.
Liver and psych alterations are 2
obvious first concerns, but should a
patient actually present an issue
during physical I don't think there's
such a thing as a LabCorp test-for-
what's-been-popped test, and so one
can imagine doctors asking themselves
if they need re-visits simply after saying
come back after discontinuing
whatever you've been taking.
Obviously pharma hasn't figured out
how to make O-T-C tiering work.
But removing fear of cost and
reinstating trust of the provider
system constitute 50% of what
this page is about.
25%: lookin' at what you get
(nurses (lookin' in a nice way,)
medical social workers)
25%: marrying health maintenance
and preventionism with
regional policy making, with an
eye toward coordinating
improved health resources
(for instance assisted living
with this.)
When A Drug Is Legally On
The Market, And Will Likely
Help You, But It's Not FDA
Approved For Your Application,
Should Your Carrier Help Out
If Your Doctor Wants To Use It?
Stanford Genome Technology Center:
Predictions Made As To An Individual's
Genetic Risk of Developing Specific
Diseases, Using Commercial SNP
(Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms,)
May Vary From Those From Next
Generation Sequencing
(That Means They
May Be Wrong)
Application For Labeling
OxyContin For Kids
(Not Independently Verified)
responding to this, it must be true
the proposal was actually made.
Though personally familiar with
the American and Canadian tourist
occasionally buying some popular
prescription drugs for him / her self
at places such as this (Puerto
Vallarta, pharmacy in the back,) at least
for me I consider this proposal as
actually sending a dangerous message;
and if it were effectuated, likely
to add to cost.
Analogize: you test-apply carpet
cleaner before you actually use it.
Many / most drugs, even sporting
the most innocuous images, carry
the sorts of risks any poison carries,
each drug being a + vs. - decision.
Liver and psych alterations are 2
obvious first concerns, but should a
patient actually present an issue
during physical I don't think there's
such a thing as a LabCorp test-for-
what's-been-popped test, and so one
can imagine doctors asking themselves
if they need re-visits simply after saying
come back after discontinuing
whatever you've been taking.
Obviously pharma hasn't figured out
how to make O-T-C tiering work.
But removing fear of cost and
reinstating trust of the provider
system constitute 50% of what
this page is about.
25%: lookin' at what you get
(nurses (lookin' in a nice way,)
medical social workers)
25%: marrying health maintenance
and preventionism with
regional policy making, with an
eye toward coordinating
improved health resources
(for instance assisted living
with this.)
When A Drug Is Legally On
The Market, And Will Likely
Help You, But It's Not FDA
Approved For Your Application,
Should Your Carrier Help Out
If Your Doctor Wants To Use It?
Stanford Genome Technology Center:
Predictions Made As To An Individual's
Genetic Risk of Developing Specific
Diseases, Using Commercial SNP
(Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms,)
May Vary From Those From Next
Generation Sequencing
(That Means They
May Be Wrong)
Application For Labeling
OxyContin For Kids
(Not Independently Verified)
With THIS, I Issue The
Call:
1:
Dental Hygiene
Integrated Into Medically
Based Health Education.
(Of Course, First One Needs
Health Education At All,
And Carrier Rationalizations
Can Improve That Beyond
The Piecemeal (Some
Organizations Are Effective
Already, Of Course))
2:
For Those With Access Issues
(Location, Financial,)
Inventing Degrees Of Access,
Including With Help In Terms
Of Provider Financial Incentives,
Call:
1:
Dental Hygiene
Integrated Into Medically
Based Health Education.
(Of Course, First One Needs
Health Education At All,
And Carrier Rationalizations
Can Improve That Beyond
The Piecemeal (Some
Organizations Are Effective
Already, Of Course))
2:
For Those With Access Issues
(Location, Financial,)
Inventing Degrees Of Access,
Including With Help In Terms
Of Provider Financial Incentives,
But I Realize The Middle Class
Is Finding Dental Hygiene
Ever More Difficult To Pursue
(That's Obviously A Matter Of
Not Getting Shafted On Policy,)
APPROPOS
ALSO
But Y'all Come Back Here Now
But Carriers In A "Rationalized"
Health Coverage System Can Better
See Their Own Purpose In
Providing Realistic Dental
Coverage
Serves:
A) The Access, Of Course
B) Creates Health Consciousness
And A Cross-Vehicle For Other
Health Education Efforts
C) Inspires, Maybe Even Fear-
Motivates (With Gums, That
Works For Me) Better
Health Behavior
D) Motivates Democratic Self-
Help, Which Helps Everyone.
Virtually All Uncovered Cost,
You Should Know, Is
"Shifted," In Any Event,
The Carriers Simply Having
Carved Out A Profit Niche
Or Next Seeing Cost-Plus,
You Paying For Whatever
Volume Passed Through.
People Seeing A Positive
Future Are Better Custodians
Of Their Own Health.
Technology Re-purposed
For Removing Radiation
From Your Morning
Coffee or
Chocolate Malted
Smoothie
(W/W-O Dash
of Kahlua)
Radiation App
As Disdainful As
((Alleged) Leaked)
Administration Efforts
To Support Monopolistic
Pricing of Drugs Are,
THIS
Most Threatens Your
Future Ability To Recover
From Illness By Slowing
The Discovery Process.
You Can Lose A Loved
One Some Years From
Now Quite Easily
Entirely Because Of That.
ENEN:
Property Content In Process
Should Have Protected Value
Where Administrative
Authorities Deem It Suited.
(Not Legal Advice)
The Scientific Knowledge Gained,
Whatever the Source, Obviously
Has A Brainstorming Value.
Scientific Progress
Should Not Be Conducted
Absent Greater Visibility.
Certainly Where Any
Component Of Clinical
Studies Involves Public
Funds, The Public Should
Be Able To Require That.
That Has Been A Cornerstone
Of National Scientific Advance
Through The Ages And
The Opposite, To Me,
Represents A Fundamental,
Societal, Failure.
That Degree Of Structured
Anti-Social-Style Economic
Conduct In A Scientific
Sector Actually Strikes Me
As Raising Anthropologic
Questions, And I'm Carefully
Trying To Avoid Sounding
Melodramatic. It Runs
Counter To The Presumed
Natural Common Aim For
Common Community
Survival, N'Est-Ce Pas?
Are Drones
Transponder-Visible,
Or Visible At All,
To Air Traffic
Controllers?
Meta-Analysis Using Partly
Data Obtained By Legal
Process Indicates Kidneys
Particularly Affected In Men,
Livers In Women, By GMO
Corn, GMO Soy
The Revolving Door in Federal
Agencies and Corporate Control
of Congress Produce
This Item:
Public Health Programs, Even
Ones Supportive of Privatized
Profits and Socialized Cost,
Get the Heave-Ho
Is Finding Dental Hygiene
Ever More Difficult To Pursue
(That's Obviously A Matter Of
Not Getting Shafted On Policy,)
APPROPOS
ALSO
But Y'all Come Back Here Now
But Carriers In A "Rationalized"
Health Coverage System Can Better
See Their Own Purpose In
Providing Realistic Dental
Coverage
Serves:
A) The Access, Of Course
B) Creates Health Consciousness
And A Cross-Vehicle For Other
Health Education Efforts
C) Inspires, Maybe Even Fear-
Motivates (With Gums, That
Works For Me) Better
Health Behavior
D) Motivates Democratic Self-
Help, Which Helps Everyone.
Virtually All Uncovered Cost,
You Should Know, Is
"Shifted," In Any Event,
The Carriers Simply Having
Carved Out A Profit Niche
Or Next Seeing Cost-Plus,
You Paying For Whatever
Volume Passed Through.
People Seeing A Positive
Future Are Better Custodians
Of Their Own Health.
Technology Re-purposed
For Removing Radiation
From Your Morning
Coffee or
Chocolate Malted
Smoothie
(W/W-O Dash
of Kahlua)
Radiation App
As Disdainful As
((Alleged) Leaked)
Administration Efforts
To Support Monopolistic
Pricing of Drugs Are,
THIS
Most Threatens Your
Future Ability To Recover
From Illness By Slowing
The Discovery Process.
You Can Lose A Loved
One Some Years From
Now Quite Easily
Entirely Because Of That.
ENEN:
Property Content In Process
Should Have Protected Value
Where Administrative
Authorities Deem It Suited.
(Not Legal Advice)
The Scientific Knowledge Gained,
Whatever the Source, Obviously
Has A Brainstorming Value.
Scientific Progress
Should Not Be Conducted
Absent Greater Visibility.
Certainly Where Any
Component Of Clinical
Studies Involves Public
Funds, The Public Should
Be Able To Require That.
That Has Been A Cornerstone
Of National Scientific Advance
Through The Ages And
The Opposite, To Me,
Represents A Fundamental,
Societal, Failure.
That Degree Of Structured
Anti-Social-Style Economic
Conduct In A Scientific
Sector Actually Strikes Me
As Raising Anthropologic
Questions, And I'm Carefully
Trying To Avoid Sounding
Melodramatic. It Runs
Counter To The Presumed
Natural Common Aim For
Common Community
Survival, N'Est-Ce Pas?
Are Drones
Transponder-Visible,
Or Visible At All,
To Air Traffic
Controllers?
Meta-Analysis Using Partly
Data Obtained By Legal
Process Indicates Kidneys
Particularly Affected In Men,
Livers In Women, By GMO
Corn, GMO Soy
The Revolving Door in Federal
Agencies and Corporate Control
of Congress Produce
This Item:
Public Health Programs, Even
Ones Supportive of Privatized
Profits and Socialized Cost,
Get the Heave-Ho
For Each Special Tree That Grows
In A Poorly Governed Community
There Could Be A Thousand. While
Addressing Medical Care
Organization Specifically, This Page
Also Reflects That One Might Quickly
Realize Economics Interfaces Matters
Of Community And Personal Health
In Many Ways. No Wonder It Is
That “Place” Itself
Is Today
Understood As Being A Common
Denominator.
(In Real Life)
A Place Can Be Wealthy But
Lacking In Priorities. Birds Can’t
Fly Unless Their Community
Is Healthy.
In A Poorly Governed Community
There Could Be A Thousand. While
Addressing Medical Care
Organization Specifically, This Page
Also Reflects That One Might Quickly
Realize Economics Interfaces Matters
Of Community And Personal Health
In Many Ways. No Wonder It Is
That “Place” Itself
Is Today
Understood As Being A Common
Denominator.
(In Real Life)
A Place Can Be Wealthy But
Lacking In Priorities. Birds Can’t
Fly Unless Their Community
Is Healthy.
Democracy, Free Enterprise
Practiced Legitimately, And
Health And Happiness
Depend On A Strong Depth
And Breadth Of Education.
In The Land Created On The
Basis Of All Men And Women
Being Equal By
Birthright There Is No Semblance
Of Equal Opportunity.
The Sapping Of Public School
Resources Aggravates That.
"Bill Gates Admits He Was
Wrong (Bloomberg Doesn't)"
HuffPo
Unionized Schools Afford Superior
Performance Despite The Childish
Denial By Way Of Reliance On
Misinformation Of That By The
Mouthpieces Of Demagogues
Profiting At Everyone
Else's Expense.
If There Should Be Self-
Serving Demagogues Of
Dubious Feelings Toward Other
People With Billions Of Dollars,
Why Would They Want
People To Have Any Opportunity
But To Do Whatever Work
They Have For Them?
The Poorer You Are The
More Willing To Help
Perform An Extractive
Job? Apply Force For Pay?
When That Self-Centeredness
Crashes A System, Along
With Duplicitous Banking And
Monopolies, There's Always
Shafting The Vulnerable, Eh?
Why Would They Want Them
To Have Time For Writing Blogs
Like This One?
This Being A Blog, Not A
Textbook, Some Free-Hand
Exists
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But Place Matters In Many Ways,
Cause The Health And Economics
Of The Individual And The
Community Are Connected.
It’s In Everyone’s Interest. An
Engine Runs Better With All
Its Cylinders Working.
Ejection
Fraction
Cause The Health And Economics
Of The Individual And The
Community Are Connected.
It’s In Everyone’s Interest. An
Engine Runs Better With All
Its Cylinders Working.
Ejection
Fraction
In Public Health, Economics,
Bio-Medical Informatics, Both Clinical
And Epidemiologic, The Latter
Incorporating Your Environment,
Are All Part Of A Single Area Of Interest
In Promoting Health And Happiness.
I Present Economic, Health Information
And Health Education Issues, And
Daily Health Issues In Close Alternating
Relation To Each Other.
The Macro Issues
Impacting Every Element, Habitat
Destruction Is Everything Defining
The Wrong Way To Go.
Also Health Maintenance
Related, Among Other Locations
Economics Per Se Include,
Among Other Locations:
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Bio-Medical Informatics, Both Clinical
And Epidemiologic, The Latter
Incorporating Your Environment,
Are All Part Of A Single Area Of Interest
In Promoting Health And Happiness.
I Present Economic, Health Information
And Health Education Issues, And
Daily Health Issues In Close Alternating
Relation To Each Other.
The Macro Issues
Impacting Every Element, Habitat
Destruction Is Everything Defining
The Wrong Way To Go.
Also Health Maintenance
Related, Among Other Locations
Economics Per Se Include,
Among Other Locations:
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Hands-On Community
As Patient
(Many Other Locations
Pertain, Including; Also)
"Merging the biological,
electronic Researchers grow
cyborg tissues with embedded
nanoelectronics”
Harvard/Boston
Childrern's Hospital
Nanoscale Scaffolds, Stem
Cells And Cartilage Repair
Johns Hopkins
Stunning New Patient
Support Service:
BFFL
(Best Friends For Life)
The p53 Gene Involves DNA
Repair And Inducing Errant
(Cancerous) Cell Self-
Destruction.
Researchers At Moffitt
(UCSF Teaching Hospital)
Have Identified A
p53 Regulator (PHF20)
Doctors--And Patients--
Get Electronic Glove For
Sub-Dermal Diagnostics
(Doctors To Get
Ultrasound Pads Also)
Watch This.
An Artificial Retina
With The Capacity To
Restore Normal Vision
Dr. Sheila Nirenberg
Weill Cornell Medical College
Music Training Has
Biological Impact on
Aging Process
Aging-related hearing loss
is not set in stone, study finds
Egg Yolks Not Far Behind
Smoking In Taking You
To Angioplasty-ville
U. W. Ontario
Antibacterial Soap Compound
Impairs Muscle Function
At The Cellular Level
UC, Davis; U. Colorado
“If we can identify genetic
biomarkers influenced by dietary
factors or environmental
toxins that are involved in the
fetal origins of adult disease,” says
Dolinoy, “then we might be
able to nutritionally supplement
mothers to change their child’s
genetic fate and prevent
diseases that occur when their
child reaches adulthood.”
Dana Dolinoy, Univ. of Michigan
School of Public Health
Exercise Reduces Breast
Cancer Risk, Weight Gain
Negates The Benefit
Lauren E. McCullough And Marilie E. Gammon,
UNC School of Public Health; Alfred I. Neugut,
Columbia Mailman Sch. of Public Health, Med. Sch.:
Rebecca J. Cleveland, NC Thurston Arthritis Res. Ctr.;
Susan I. Teitelbaum, Comm.Med., Mt. Sinai Sch. of Med.;
Sybil M. Eng, Sen. Dir. Epidemiology, Pfizer
Programmable Single Cell
Biocomputers Can
(Ultimately) Self-Activate
In Response To A
Bodily Systemic Need
Optogenetics And
Psychiatric Disease
Neutralization
discovermagazine.com
Carbon Monoxide / Heart
Beat Problem Method Of
Connection Discovered
Low Levels Of CO, As
From Heavy Traffic,
May Damage The Heart
Air Pollution:
Stroke, Memory Loss Risks
(adds to a tremendous laundry
list of increased morbidity risks,
including cardiovascular, carcinogenic)
SEE BROADER IDEA AS TO THIS
Flaws In Compact Fluorescent
Bulbs Allowing UV Light
Escape (Skin Cancer Risk)
Neighboring Normal-Cell
Carcinogenic
Response To Chemo Leads
To New Strategy
ENEN:
Undoubtedly, This Will
Be Reported With The
"Backfire" Word In Many
Places. Cancer Staging,
Risk / Reward (Risk
Very Particularly Managed
And Reduced Substantially)
Are Ever More Informed
Processes. Your Doctor's
Obviously Better Informed
As To Staging, Prognosis,
Immune Capacity, Etc.,
And Has The Patient-By-
Patient Clinical Experience.
The Uncooperative Patient
Is An Often-Voiced
Recurrent Problem In
Patient Management, And
Doctors Simultaneously
Have To Judge A Patient's
Ability To Cope.
It's Sometimes The Drugs
Given, Out Of Sheer Necessity
Of Life, To Compensate
For The Complications From
Lack Of Cooperation, That Go
On To Compromise Additional
Systems.
While Communication Is
Universally Encouraged,
The Doctor Has To Be The
Better Informed Decision-
Maker.
The Reader's Gaining Of The
Fuller Sense Of The Clinical
Decision -MakingProcess, The
Necessity Of Trust, The
Importance Of Early Detection
(Often Allows Quick-Surg
Resolution,) The Absense Of
Structures In Our System That Are
Cost-Plus/Volume-Encouraged
In Favor Of Measures Of Outcomes
And Of Such Things As Proper
Risk Apportionment, By Way
Of This Become Major Pluses.
I Happen To Believe Risk Equalization
And Value-Basing Of Coverage
(The Opposite Of "Just-Go-Away"
Deductibles)Are The Best Paths To
These Ends.
(Purposely Entered In
2 Locations, In View Of
The Above)
Karli Rosner, MD, PHD
Wayne State Sch. of Medicine
Using DNASE1 As A
Computer Virus
(Treating DNA As A Computer)
So As To Blue Screen
(As In Computer's
Screen Of Death)
Melanoma Cells
Hiding Drugs In DNA
Origami
Baoquan Ding, National
Center for Nanoscience and
Technology (Beijing)
(At) "about $1,000 (apiece...)
human genome sequences could
'be used widely in health care.'
Patients could be tested years in
advance to begin preventive treatment
of diseases before they occur.
(Parentheticals Added)
"Are DNA testing services like
23andMe something good to
do and show your doctor
for preventive reasons?
What are the downsides?"
(Neurologist Answers
--Forum Format)
Columbia Univ. Medical Center
(Lead: Domenico Accili, MD:)
Sirtuin Agonists Turn White Fat
Cells Into Energy Burning
Brown Fat Cells
(Increasing Sensitivity To
Insulin Helped Also)
Sirtuins
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Obesity Slams Sex
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It's Not Too Late To
Do The Right Things
LAUGHTER
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There Is Virtually No
Part Of This Website
That Doesn't Bear On
Reducing Stress
That Will Always Come
From Prioritizing Health.
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C B4 The Next Link
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007, "Never Say
Never Again:" "One
Should Always Be Relaxed."
ENEN:
A Health Care System
Should Not Add To The
Stress Level Of A
Cancer Patient
(Just Pre-Diving Scene,
With Fatima Blush)
Crowdsourcing And Diagnosing
Disease, Shows Positive Effect.
Particularly, From Work Of
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Does Testing For
Congenital Defects
Devalue Those Already
Living With Them?
First Pill To Prevent
HIV Transmission
(Incl. Whether Insurers
Will Pay For It)
UN Sets Limit On
Ractopamine
A Growth Hormone Feared
Potentially Related To Human
Obesity, Is In The U.S. Fed To,
Pigs, Cattle And Turkeys In
The Last Weeks Of Life
And Not Withdrawn Prior
To Slaughter
(Per Sources--Not
Independently Verified)
U.S. Pushes Trade Partners
To Lift Ractopamine Ban
Irisin, Exercise, And Turning
Into A Lean, Mean Fat-Eating
Machine Explained Further
If You Don't Have A Job,
Go For The Bad Dancer
First Study to Show Early
Brain Changes Predict Which
Patients Develop Chronic Pain
The Only Really Practical Means
Of Minimizing Exposure To
Radiation-Contaminated /
Genetically Adulterated Foods,
As I Happen To See It:
Eat Low On The Food Chain,
And Where Worried (Justifiably)
About Soy / Corn Content, There
Are Legume Seed Pools That Have
Not Been Adulterated, At Least Not In
Widespread Or Universal Manner,
And To Trust The Sourcing,
Try Utilizing Sources
Such As
THIS
Helen Caldicott, Including
On What Food From
Europe She Wouldn't Eat
And What Foods From The
U.S. Europeans Wouldn't Eat
“Prunes pass”
Man, It Is
Definitely
Beddy-By
Time
Physical MO (Apart From
Outside Inputs--My Add)
of Dumbing Down Found
(Website Has No Infomercial)
for integrating with this
and this,
(AND OVERALL WITH THIS)
including interfaces
with car-oriented GPS, mass
transit apps, commercial establishment
interfaces, and civic destination
interfaces,
this, this, this, this.
You can get a chicken
salad at Burger King now.
Studies as to common anti-
inflammatories' benefits are obviously
piling higher and higher,
but doctors would want patients
to be aware of their infinite
variability to being susceptible in are
hardly limited number ways
to potential side effects. Some
patients wil l have quite syndrome
specific risks. Others will present
reason for concern as to other
common side effects. A more
comprehensive Health Education
regimen can
1)
incorporate more meaning guidelines,
and most these compounds are available
over the counter.
2)
a program like this can readily use
its per-patient risk assessment as
a two-way street, such as feeding
a patient's health information resource,
be it MSN Health Vault, or other, with
more individually suited guidelines.
These guidelines can be set in
increasing details going from
the top to the bottom of a pyramid,
the bottom being closest to the
individual patient.
(TIES MANY ELEMENTS)
The "why the doctor"
proviso can be established every
step of the way with
coordinating detail.
This Pertains Horsies But
Has Proxy Value As To
Human Epidemiologics
(Vectors' Relative
Strengths and Ranges; Pathogen
Threshold Populations and
Virulence; Infinity of Genetic
Adaptations Accelerated;
New Paradigms Across All That,
the "Opportunism" And The
Changing Individual And
Group Biologies Being
Interactive)
An insect-borne disease many
people have never heard of is
quickly becoming the "new AIDS
of the Americas," researchers warn.
“When you combine this
study with other studies
on California law, the body of
evidence suggests the
schools in California really
have made healthier changes
by getting rid of things like
sweets and candy bars.”
Taber / Univ. Of Illinois, Chicago
It appears a meaningful impact
requires a concerted approach,
likely (my add)
involving parents.
Kaiser Permanente Work
Seconds That Emotion
(health ed. costs a nickel, saves a dollar)
more
Better Meals For
Rushed Students
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study with other studies
on California law, the body of
evidence suggests the
schools in California really
have made healthier changes
by getting rid of things like
sweets and candy bars.”
Taber / Univ. Of Illinois, Chicago
It appears a meaningful impact
requires a concerted approach,
likely (my add)
involving parents.
Kaiser Permanente Work
Seconds That Emotion
(health ed. costs a nickel, saves a dollar)
more
Better Meals For
Rushed Students
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Karli Rosner, MD, PHD
Wayne State Sch. of Medicine
Using DNASE1 As A
Computer Virus
(Treating DNA As A Computer)
So As To Blue Screen
(As In Computer's
Screen Of Death)
Melanoma Cells
Neurology Yet Again:
UC Berkeley
(Collaboration:
Univ. of Munich,
Univ. of Washington)
Chemical Makes
Blind Mice See
Open Letter To The
Braille Institute:
After Achieving Success In
Its Aim, The March Of Dimes
Embarked On Overcoming
Even Greater Maladies Of
Mankind.
From Neurology Again:
Northwestern Team Purports
Breaking The Inflammation -
Beta Amyloid Link,
Addressing Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, And
Multiple Sclerosis
Bionic Eye Developed
At The Univ. Of
New South Wales
From Stanford: Photovoltaic
Retinal Implant, Which, Step
by Step, Restores Increasing
Degrees of Vision
A grateful world is obviously
witnessing its being on the
cusp of seeing spectacular
applications in neurology.
Can You Help Him Yet?
FutureMed Track,
Singularity University
Visual Function By Way of
Sound-Based Algorithmic
Transcription, But ALSO With
Surprising Visual Nerve
Activation--Much Like As
In Star Trek
Silk-Based Shrink Wrap
Treats Epileptic, Spinal, Other
Neurologic Disorders
(U. Penn.)
Broad Spectrum Brain Cell
Death Stopped
Neuromuscular
Re-establishment
(UPDATED)
Poof! New Nerve Cells
Vision Restored
Vision Restored - II
First Successful Restoration
Of Vision With Artificial
Retina
Further Update--
Regrowth and Restoration
of Function of SEVERELY
Damaged Nerves
Spinal Cord Bypassed
To Move Paralyzed Hand
Computer Generated Implants
Allow Damaged Nerves
To Regrow
2 comments here
(at evernewecon)
Here's the N.I.H. close to saying
hey, you've free clinics, what else
do you want?
But, the high risk exchanges aren't effective /
palmed off onto the taxpayer until 2014.
Until then, it's still go naked or premium
death spirals for those the carriers
don't want.
So, by all means, support this, eh?
the next 2 paragraphs are recently
re-worded (microblogger with a day job)
The Current (Anticipated) Regime,
Replacing the Existing Manner Of
Getting Eaten by the Cartel,
Subsidizes the
Losing Part of the Business (Taxpayers
By Law Literally Guaranteeing a Low
Medical Loss Ratio, Despite Much Higher
Admin Costs Than Exist Even In Medicare,
With No Attention Paid To Preventionism.)
This Parallels Bank "Haircuts"
With The Taxpayer (Unaware) "Sharing"
The Losses, With The
Banks Able To Buy Back Cheaply,
along with programs ostensibly
helping borrowers who already
know they'll never see their
equities again constituting nothing
people paying large banks for the
privilege of those banks assuming
ownership of those good decisions
and depriving the good decision-
makers of the rightly earned market
advantage.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, all that is
a by-law huge gross (business margin on
top of out-sized admin cost) based on
cost-plus: the incentive is to INCREASE
the health care cost, which is rather like
privatized prisons: the more incarceration
instead of education, the better the
purveyor makes out.
While developed nations with better
rationalized systems routinely account
for time off from work due to illness
or injury, that's a major chunk of health
cost that's invisible in the U.S.
First, off, it's not simply that 40,000
persons die prematurely due to inadequate
access, but a large multiple of that
suffers much more severe, longer lasting,
or permanent disability also owing to
delayed access.
But fear of engaging and disincentives to
engage medical intervention costs
increased time off for disability for
millions of Ameicans.
As exciting as THIS looks
(and it's ideally aimed)in the Wide
World of Rationalization In Bio-Medicine
and Economics, There's a Potential
Triangulation of Interests
That Can Arise, The "Triangulation"
Is the Alleged Incentive Toward
"Underutilization" On the Part Of
(Fully) Pre-Paid / Wellness
Programs Vs. Not Simply The Possibility
of Excessive Testing In Fee-For-Service
Settings, But Now Potentially Even
Underutilization So As To Perpetuate
An Asymmetric System.
That's simply parallel to the
question of whether policies are
aimed at adapting to this
or correcting for "heads I win,
tails you lose" altogether.
Of Course, The Aims Could
Entail A Duality Of
Purposes: Good Science, With
Extending
"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose"
Being Welcome
To Understand The Bio-Medical
Abilities We Need To Make Available
(and Room For Economically,)
Simply Visit any Major Bio-Medical
Website. But We Have To Make
That Happen When People Really Can't
Afford Their Health Insurance As It Is.
Those Not Interested In
"Rationalization" Obviously Don't
Actually Prepare Household Budgets
The Problem Is "Heads I Win,
Tails You Lose."The Solution Is
Preventionism. We're Heading In
The Wrong Direction When We
Destroy Our Habitats.
Medicaid cuts in Ryan budget
would cost jobs in every state
Heads I win, tails
you lose is today insufficient for
people serving lobbyists and monopolists.
Because of the aging baby boomers,
Medicare, which has been National Health
Insurance for people the health cartel has
not cared to cover, and Social Security,
which competes with private retirement
security sales, are no longer things the
billionaires care to see as it may be too
expensive to work with policy-by-
lobbying and policy-by-monopoly.
You can ask today's retirees whose
retirement securities have been
income-flattened for the sake of
near free reserves for the TBTF banks
how their dependence on
banking giant roll-ups has been
working out for them.
from the Wide World of C-Sections
Where Do You Live?
Removing asymmetry utterly
eliminates THIS issue.
Obama (empty) promise as to GMO
labeling; Gates / Monsanto
(NOTHING INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED)
ENEN:
Gates, of course, could
simply really believe in GMO's,
exactly as he purports.
However,
SEE
THIS TOO.
Obama Blocking Release
Of
(Purported--Not
Independently Verified)
Monsanto Lobbyist /
Obama Emails Sought By
PEER Under The Freedom
Of Information Act
The Keck Foundation Adopts
The Center for Food Safety Imploring
Stringent GMO Controls
It Also Extends a New $150MM Gift
To USC's Medical Center
(yikes)
Even people reporting THIS (universal
coverage improves health status--
now measured) simply
don't GET IT yet.
You have all been paying for the
uninsured all along. Their cost has
been built into your premiums by way of
"cost shifting." It simply has been the case
they've arrived at the hospitals and
clinics way late, and the health carriers have
simply carved out for themselves their own
pre-defined happy-low measures of risk.
Stonewalling Generics
THIS
is about going beyond not simply
risk / Government, risk - free / cartel,
but it actually says: we can't take any
chances. No surprises allowed /
risk - free / cartel.
And this is so preposterously
transparent it's the easiest
thing I've ever done.
Now Hear This.
Maybe an inch closer? (getting
the FDA to examine the
safety of animal antibiotics and growth
promoters.)
or here
Kids missing decent nutrition--
life primes ripped off
...it gets worse,
which can get darn expensive
for everyone on top of
wasting the poorly fed
kid's life
Study Linking Diesel Exhaust And Cancer
Finally Sees The Light Of Day
Here is an improvement in technology that
does more than extend life by 3 months
at spectacular expense.
What can be done about those that don't?
Incremental effectiveness is important, but
how can we reward that without blowing all
our resources on applying technology of
dubious real impact?
This looks generally like a good thing.
ENEN:
But, there's a slippery slope as to imposing
personal impressions. The aim:
1) not getting too hung up on the issue
2) realizing that white fat particularly really
is deadly, but involves an issue with depth.
SURPRISE! Now the military has
learned what a premium
death spiral is.
THIS to ENEN is nothing more
or less than shifting the cost of
health care for the military from the
military budget to the taxpayer outside
that budget inasmuch as any risk
factor will induce customers in
uniform to go to the taxpayer-subsidized
high risk health exhanges.
The health cartel, a cartel by law,
their being expressly immune from the
anti-trust laws, is by law also
guaranteed an extravagenet gross
margin on top of an extravagent
administrative cost structure,
one which is far
greater than Medicare's or the VA's.
ObamaCare replaces a choice from
a rigidly protected health cartel of
"going naked" or
"premium death spirals," and cherry-
picking but with cost-shifting but with
the carriers enjoying a pre-defined
risk with a cost-plus based system
incentivizing MORE cost, not
incentivizing clinical rationalization
and preventionism anywhere
near as can otherwise be done,
if at all, as the health cartel
members benefit from higher
volume.
All elements of the care
chain are thus encouraged
to bilk taxpayer / patient.
At ProPublica (Especially as
to Prescribing--)
One of Many Issues
Particularly With Obama's
Plan Encouraging High
Volume, Though ENEN
Considers Provider Abuses
Being Very Rare (<3%)
The cartel gets a pre-defined
high margin return (multi-tier
medical loss ratio) easily fudged with
admin costs, with particularly costly
patients participating in government
sponsored high risk exchanges.
To those with IQ's over 100
(definitionally half the population)
that is a profoundly
inefficient system, though it's
entirely assuring to the cartel.
SEE
ALSO THIS
(probably ties more
elements together,
and quickly)
SEE MORE AS TO SUCH
THINGS AS VALUE BASED
INSURANCE DESIGN (A PLUS)
AND POTENTIAL TIERING OF
HEALTH CARE OVERALL
AS TO OBAMACARE, AS
WELL AS TO UNFAIR
TREATMENT OF RISK
(MY IDEA)
a rigidly protected health cartel of
"going naked" or
"premium death spirals," and cherry-
picking but with cost-shifting but with
the carriers enjoying a pre-defined
risk with a cost-plus based system
incentivizing MORE cost, not
incentivizing clinical rationalization
and preventionism anywhere
near as can otherwise be done,
if at all, as the health cartel
members benefit from higher
volume.
All elements of the care
chain are thus encouraged
to bilk taxpayer / patient.
At ProPublica (Especially as
to Prescribing--)
One of Many Issues
Particularly With Obama's
Plan Encouraging High
Volume, Though ENEN
Considers Provider Abuses
Being Very Rare (<3%)
The cartel gets a pre-defined
high margin return (multi-tier
medical loss ratio) easily fudged with
admin costs, with particularly costly
patients participating in government
sponsored high risk exchanges.
To those with IQ's over 100
(definitionally half the population)
that is a profoundly
inefficient system, though it's
entirely assuring to the cartel.
SEE
ALSO THIS
(probably ties more
elements together,
and quickly)
SEE MORE AS TO SUCH
THINGS AS VALUE BASED
INSURANCE DESIGN (A PLUS)
AND POTENTIAL TIERING OF
HEALTH CARE OVERALL
AS TO OBAMACARE, AS
WELL AS TO UNFAIR
TREATMENT OF RISK
(MY IDEA)
Though Neither Accidents Nor
Pathogenic Microbes Respond
To "Price Elasticities" In The
Demand For Hospital / Doctors'
Services,
And Though I Might
Be Considered, In Terms Of
Overall Objectives, Being A
Millimeter From
California OneCare,
I Personally Care Mainly
About Legitimizing The Market
And Getting The Insurance
Agents Out Of The Physician's
Judgement / Treatment
-Making.
Free Up The Market And
Let Doctors And Insurers
More Freely Judge Each
Other. Real Competition
And Capitation
Without Fee-For-Service
Removes Gatekeeping
Substantially, But There's A
Role For Fee-For-Service Care
And Love Affairs With High
Power Medical Clinics, Especially
Considering They're The
Prime Advancers Of
Procedure And Technique, Along
With Being New Product Proving
Grounds--
Across A Fair, Risk-Apportioned
Market, One Without Tiers, But,
Just The Same, Preferably With
Diagnoses / Work /
Outcomes Transparent To
Insurers Just As Insurers' Practices
Are Transparent To Doctors
And Patients.
But Grants And Royalties Can Be
Flexed In A Manner Encouraging
Sharing Basic Science. If That
Creates The Faster Sprint To The
Market With Products, All The Better.
Opaque Science Logically Must Be
Privileged, Slower-Producing.
The Process Should Involve
Ongoing Review In Each Case
Anyway.
(Parallels In Economic Relationships
Run Across Most Things. The Real
Curiosity Is Homeostasis Defining
Both Body Chemistry And Economics.)
I Offer Sliding-Scale Netback Based
On The Mix of Oil / Nat Gas in
Offshore Drilling In Parallel As To
How to Manipulate The Incentives
And Pace Of Drilling For Those
Products.
The Smaller Biotech Can Take More
Grants And Pay No Royalties
Particularly If It Is Reviewed As
Sharing Basic Elements Of New
Science.
Matt Taibbi On Obama's
"Investonawhim-" Promoting
"Jumpstart Our Business Startups
("JOBS") Act."
Will It Reduce Productive
Investment And Boost The
Taking In Of Suckers?
The Trillions Bernanke
Extended To The TBTF Banks
So They Could Live On Treasuries
Rather Than Take Losses,
Which They Now Don't Want
To Sell Back, Could Instead Have
Been Invested In College Tuition
And Grants To College Labs And
Legitimate, Promising, Reviewed
Corporate Upstarts.
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As It Stands Now, Giant Pharma
Need Only Glance At An Ocean
Of Fledgling Upstarts, Presenting
All Degrees Of Merit, And Use
Their Own Monopolistic Pricing
To Cherry-Pick, Taking
Back Warrants Signing Over
Most Potential.
Sometimes, The Arrangement
Is Little More Than The Kiss
Of Death: A Cooperation
Agreement Braked Until The Giant
Firm's In-House
Alternative Is Ready For Market.
Admittedly A Generalization,
Allowing For Joint Ventures And
Mid-Size Firms, The Point Is
The Process Should Favor
Diversity, Not Limitation, Just
As In Any Sector.
Flexed In A Manner Encouraging
Sharing Basic Science. If That
Creates The Faster Sprint To The
Market With Products, All The Better.
Opaque Science Logically Must Be
Privileged, Slower-Producing.
The Process Should Involve
Ongoing Review In Each Case
Anyway.
(Parallels In Economic Relationships
Run Across Most Things. The Real
Curiosity Is Homeostasis Defining
Both Body Chemistry And Economics.)
I Offer Sliding-Scale Netback Based
On The Mix of Oil / Nat Gas in
Offshore Drilling In Parallel As To
How to Manipulate The Incentives
And Pace Of Drilling For Those
Products.
The Smaller Biotech Can Take More
Grants And Pay No Royalties
Particularly If It Is Reviewed As
Sharing Basic Elements Of New
Science.
Matt Taibbi On Obama's
"Investonawhim-" Promoting
"Jumpstart Our Business Startups
("JOBS") Act."
Will It Reduce Productive
Investment And Boost The
Taking In Of Suckers?
The Trillions Bernanke
Extended To The TBTF Banks
So They Could Live On Treasuries
Rather Than Take Losses,
Which They Now Don't Want
To Sell Back, Could Instead Have
Been Invested In College Tuition
And Grants To College Labs And
Legitimate, Promising, Reviewed
Corporate Upstarts.
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As It Stands Now, Giant Pharma
Need Only Glance At An Ocean
Of Fledgling Upstarts, Presenting
All Degrees Of Merit, And Use
Their Own Monopolistic Pricing
To Cherry-Pick, Taking
Back Warrants Signing Over
Most Potential.
Sometimes, The Arrangement
Is Little More Than The Kiss
Of Death: A Cooperation
Agreement Braked Until The Giant
Firm's In-House
Alternative Is Ready For Market.
Admittedly A Generalization,
Allowing For Joint Ventures And
Mid-Size Firms, The Point Is
The Process Should Favor
Diversity, Not Limitation, Just
As In Any Sector.
a nation firing on half
its cylinders is like a
heart with a lousy
ejection fraction
Is The Human Body
An Economic System?
(Homeostasis Defines Each.)
(Public Health Marries Economics With
Epidemiologics, Looking At Both The
Individual And The Community. This
Will Explore Whether The Human Body
Is More LITERALLY Part Of The Greater
Economy, And Whether The Economy
Is More LITERALLY A Living System)
I Think The Fact Of The
Crescendo Construction But
Especially The Final Addition
Of The Jingling Of The Chimes
By The Young Women Dressed
Fully In White At The End
Reflects A Sensing That The
Community's Health And The
Individual's Health Are
Intertwined.
------
I Think A Progressive Can
Happily Mind His Taylor Rule As
Well As Watch His Calories
So Long As The Markets Are
Fair And Not Based On
Entrenched Monopolies.
Absolutely I Think It's A
Slam Dunk That The Human
Body Is An Economic System.
It's Not Because You Can Place
Cells From Larry Summers In
A Test Tube And Mix Them
With A Printed Chart, But
Rather The Same Equations
Using Economic Variables Will
Work With Calories, Exercise,
And, With Additional Factoring,
Education, Culture And The Like.
Vice Versa?
Community Lives?
The Question Helps Explain
The Maladies.
Incarcerate. Don't Educate.
Control. Monopoly. Sick.
Sick Community. Sick Up Close.
Of Course, You Do Realize
This Joins Everything Concerning
Our Existence. That's Why I
Place Health (/Happiness)
It's Well Known Very Many
Performers Use Some Substance-
Based Help For Letting Go For
Their Audiences. For Some,
It's Tantamount To Being An
Occupational Hazard. For Others,
It's Bringing A Bad Habit Already
Present.
In Bob Marley's Case, I'm Guessing
It Probably Played Some Role,
Though I'm Also Just Guessing
It Was Somewhat Controlled And
Modest. But I Don't Think, If It
Existed, It Was Simply For
The Performance. It Would Have
Been For His Sense Of Purpose
And Mission. You Can Obviously
See It And Hear It.
Even With That, I Cannot Condone It
In Any Health Maintenance Regard.
However, It Serves This Section.
His Investment, In His Actions And
That Sense Of Purpose And Mission,
I Believe Contributed To The Health
Of The Community. Immensely.
He Was Almost Like A Calming
Serving Of Sangria For The
Community. Partly Showing The
Advantage Of Diversity, And Not
Getting Slammed Into Narrow
Community Discourse, He Was
A Reminder Of What Makes A
Community Happy And Healthy.
"Let's Get Together And Feel Alright."
Our Losing Him Is Alarming.
I Think Progressives Are MORE
Protective Of Not Simply Access
To Health Care But Most Things
Contributing To Health Maintenance.
As The Top Priority. That's
Our World's Blood Pressure.
If We’re Rightful By Each Other
We Should Prosper.
If We’re Not Nuts (When People
Don’t Treat Each Other
Rightfully It’s Generally Cause
They’re At Least To Some/Any
Degree Impacted By Emotional
Issues) We Should Prosper.
If We’re Wrongly Controlled
How Can We Trust That
International Disagreements Are
Anything More Than The Clash
Of The Ponzi Schemes?
It's A Lie That Competition
Means Go To Hell.
But How Would We Know?
We've Almost Never Had It.
Monopoly And Control
Is Not Competition.
It's Foundations, A Matter Of
What Some Call "Structure
and Process," Can Be
Entirely Constructive.
Enterprise Zones Are
Successful In The U.S.
China's / Israel's Capitalist
Economies Are Grounded
In Town And Enterprise
Villages And Kibbutzim.
Most "Predatory" Practices
In The Market Run
Dangerously Close To
Violating Various Elements
Of The Law, Though That
Of Course Becomes
Useless Where It's Not
Enforced.
From That, And War, I
Think The Community IS
Some Kind Of Living System.
War Is, At A Homicidal Level,
One Party, The Other Party,
Or Both Parties, Not
Behaving. Like Kids In The
Back Seat. Lack Of Trust,
Perhaps Cause Of One Kid
Needing To Pick On The Other.
So That's Simply Maturing,
Not Being Selfish, Not Looking
To Falsely Blame, Letting
People Be, And Finally
Forming A Basis Of Trust.
Those Things Require
Leaders With Good
Intentions, Of Course.
It's The Fact That Homicide
Is Definitionally Health-Based
That I Think It's Meaningful
To Say Our World IS Some
Kind Of Living System.
But Everything Pertaining
The Economic Life Of Our
Planet Is Caught Up In
These Issues. No One
Makes Any Money If
Our Habitat Is Destroyed.
We'll Need Cops I Guess.
Capt. Picard Had Security
Teams.
There ARE Biologic Changes
That Cause Insanity.
But Otherwise, Guess What?
When Soldiers Are Sent Off,
That's Public Health, For
Both Sides. Then, Of Course,
There's The "Collateral Damage,"
The "Bombing Into Submission."
Ronnie Kovic Played With War
Toys As A Kid, As Did I.
They Should Be Replaced With
This.
Those Who Would Destroy Our
Habitat Force Everyone Else To
Be The Super-Soldier Doomed
To Lose, And Those Who Would
Do That Are Thus Definitionally
Cowards.
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its cylinders is like a
heart with a lousy
ejection fraction
Is The Human Body
An Economic System?
(Homeostasis Defines Each.)
(Public Health Marries Economics With
Epidemiologics, Looking At Both The
Individual And The Community. This
Will Explore Whether The Human Body
Is More LITERALLY Part Of The Greater
Economy, And Whether The Economy
Is More LITERALLY A Living System)
I Think The Fact Of The
Crescendo Construction But
Especially The Final Addition
Of The Jingling Of The Chimes
By The Young Women Dressed
Fully In White At The End
Reflects A Sensing That The
Community's Health And The
Individual's Health Are
Intertwined.
------
I Think A Progressive Can
Happily Mind His Taylor Rule As
Well As Watch His Calories
So Long As The Markets Are
Fair And Not Based On
Entrenched Monopolies.
Absolutely I Think It's A
Slam Dunk That The Human
Body Is An Economic System.
It's Not Because You Can Place
Cells From Larry Summers In
A Test Tube And Mix Them
With A Printed Chart, But
Rather The Same Equations
Using Economic Variables Will
Work With Calories, Exercise,
And, With Additional Factoring,
Education, Culture And The Like.
Vice Versa?
Community Lives?
The Question Helps Explain
The Maladies.
Incarcerate. Don't Educate.
Control. Monopoly. Sick.
Sick Community. Sick Up Close.
Of Course, You Do Realize
This Joins Everything Concerning
Our Existence. That's Why I
Place Health (/Happiness)
It's Well Known Very Many
Performers Use Some Substance-
Based Help For Letting Go For
Their Audiences. For Some,
It's Tantamount To Being An
Occupational Hazard. For Others,
It's Bringing A Bad Habit Already
Present.
In Bob Marley's Case, I'm Guessing
It Probably Played Some Role,
Though I'm Also Just Guessing
It Was Somewhat Controlled And
Modest. But I Don't Think, If It
Existed, It Was Simply For
The Performance. It Would Have
Been For His Sense Of Purpose
And Mission. You Can Obviously
See It And Hear It.
Even With That, I Cannot Condone It
In Any Health Maintenance Regard.
However, It Serves This Section.
His Investment, In His Actions And
That Sense Of Purpose And Mission,
I Believe Contributed To The Health
Of The Community. Immensely.
He Was Almost Like A Calming
Serving Of Sangria For The
Community. Partly Showing The
Advantage Of Diversity, And Not
Getting Slammed Into Narrow
Community Discourse, He Was
A Reminder Of What Makes A
Community Happy And Healthy.
"Let's Get Together And Feel Alright."
Our Losing Him Is Alarming.
I Think Progressives Are MORE
Protective Of Not Simply Access
To Health Care But Most Things
Contributing To Health Maintenance.
As The Top Priority. That's
Our World's Blood Pressure.
If We’re Rightful By Each Other
We Should Prosper.
If We’re Not Nuts (When People
Don’t Treat Each Other
Rightfully It’s Generally Cause
They’re At Least To Some/Any
Degree Impacted By Emotional
Issues) We Should Prosper.
If We’re Wrongly Controlled
How Can We Trust That
International Disagreements Are
Anything More Than The Clash
Of The Ponzi Schemes?
It's A Lie That Competition
Means Go To Hell.
But How Would We Know?
We've Almost Never Had It.
Monopoly And Control
Is Not Competition.
It's Foundations, A Matter Of
What Some Call "Structure
and Process," Can Be
Entirely Constructive.
Enterprise Zones Are
Successful In The U.S.
China's / Israel's Capitalist
Economies Are Grounded
In Town And Enterprise
Villages And Kibbutzim.
Most "Predatory" Practices
In The Market Run
Dangerously Close To
Violating Various Elements
Of The Law, Though That
Of Course Becomes
Useless Where It's Not
Enforced.
From That, And War, I
Think The Community IS
Some Kind Of Living System.
War Is, At A Homicidal Level,
One Party, The Other Party,
Or Both Parties, Not
Behaving. Like Kids In The
Back Seat. Lack Of Trust,
Perhaps Cause Of One Kid
Needing To Pick On The Other.
So That's Simply Maturing,
Not Being Selfish, Not Looking
To Falsely Blame, Letting
People Be, And Finally
Forming A Basis Of Trust.
Those Things Require
Leaders With Good
Intentions, Of Course.
It's The Fact That Homicide
Is Definitionally Health-Based
That I Think It's Meaningful
To Say Our World IS Some
Kind Of Living System.
But Everything Pertaining
The Economic Life Of Our
Planet Is Caught Up In
These Issues. No One
Makes Any Money If
Our Habitat Is Destroyed.
We'll Need Cops I Guess.
Capt. Picard Had Security
Teams.
There ARE Biologic Changes
That Cause Insanity.
But Otherwise, Guess What?
When Soldiers Are Sent Off,
That's Public Health, For
Both Sides. Then, Of Course,
There's The "Collateral Damage,"
The "Bombing Into Submission."
Ronnie Kovic Played With War
Toys As A Kid, As Did I.
They Should Be Replaced With
This.
Those Who Would Destroy Our
Habitat Force Everyone Else To
Be The Super-Soldier Doomed
To Lose, And Those Who Would
Do That Are Thus Definitionally
Cowards.
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In Homeostatic Systems,
Positive Feedback Is Bad.
It Means A System Is Going
Further Out Of Whack,
Responding In A Manner
Encouraging Increasing
Divergence From The
Normal, Or Prior, State.
I Think Notional Investing
That's Regulated As Needed
And Not Secretly Duplicitous
(Generic Reference)
Can Be Something In Between
A Useful And Necessary Part
Of A Monopoly-Free Capitalist
Economy. But If The Adversities,
And Their Causes,
That Are Played Are AGGRAVATED
By Leaders' Actions Instead Of
Addressed For Purposes Of Repair,
Then That's A Sick System.
Also
And
Profiting From Adversity--
Political Level
(My Usage)
"Internet Tax: FCC
Considers Proposal
To Tax Broadband Service"
HuffPo
(Taking Advantage
Of The Abuse Of Those
Less Influential?
Further Aggravating
The Inefficiency And
Abuse Caused By A
System In Ill Health)
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Steven Landsburg’s
(Univ. of Rochester)
Talk (C-SPAN) Happened Along
At A Good Time For This
Session on Economic Freedom
Even Mild Depression
Shortens Lifespan
This Is Part Of How
Monopoly Kills
The Abused
I'm Now Also Asking
If Our Planet Is An
Economic System.
Uh Oh, I Guess Next Is:
Is Our Universe An
Economic System?
Uh Oh, Spaghetti-O
Positive Feedback Is Bad.
It Means A System Is Going
Further Out Of Whack,
Responding In A Manner
Encouraging Increasing
Divergence From The
Normal, Or Prior, State.
I Think Notional Investing
That's Regulated As Needed
And Not Secretly Duplicitous
(Generic Reference)
Can Be Something In Between
A Useful And Necessary Part
Of A Monopoly-Free Capitalist
Economy. But If The Adversities,
And Their Causes,
That Are Played Are AGGRAVATED
By Leaders' Actions Instead Of
Addressed For Purposes Of Repair,
Then That's A Sick System.
Also
And
Profiting From Adversity--
Political Level
(My Usage)
"Internet Tax: FCC
Considers Proposal
To Tax Broadband Service"
HuffPo
(Taking Advantage
Of The Abuse Of Those
Less Influential?
Further Aggravating
The Inefficiency And
Abuse Caused By A
System In Ill Health)
-----
-----
Steven Landsburg’s
(Univ. of Rochester)
Talk (C-SPAN) Happened Along
At A Good Time For This
Session on Economic Freedom
Even Mild Depression
Shortens Lifespan
This Is Part Of How
Monopoly Kills
The Abused
I'm Now Also Asking
If Our Planet Is An
Economic System.
Uh Oh, I Guess Next Is:
Is Our Universe An
Economic System?
Uh Oh, Spaghetti-O
Actually, Er, Near What-If’s,
And Far What-If’s, Appear To Me
To Mirror Quantum Mechanics:
The Forest Of Possibilities
Converge At The Point Of Viewing
(Outreach)
Just As A Family Needs To Ask The
What-If's, So Should Economic
Policy-Makers. That All That Gets
Chucked Out The Window So Those Who
Made Right Decisions Can Underwrite
Near Free Reserves And All Manner
Of Loss Sharing For Those Who
Made Bad Ones Is Suggestive Of
A "Let's Make It Work For Us" Policy,
Not One Based On Health, Happiness,
Efficiency, Effectiveness, Access
To Health Maintenance, Growth Of
Human Capital, Etc.
Dare I Say, The Health Insurance
Sector Resembles The Ills Of
The Banking Sector, Except The
Inability For It To Sustain A
Constructive National Purpose
Is Taking Longer To Show.
And Far What-If’s, Appear To Me
To Mirror Quantum Mechanics:
The Forest Of Possibilities
Converge At The Point Of Viewing
(Outreach)
Just As A Family Needs To Ask The
What-If's, So Should Economic
Policy-Makers. That All That Gets
Chucked Out The Window So Those Who
Made Right Decisions Can Underwrite
Near Free Reserves And All Manner
Of Loss Sharing For Those Who
Made Bad Ones Is Suggestive Of
A "Let's Make It Work For Us" Policy,
Not One Based On Health, Happiness,
Efficiency, Effectiveness, Access
To Health Maintenance, Growth Of
Human Capital, Etc.
Dare I Say, The Health Insurance
Sector Resembles The Ills Of
The Banking Sector, Except The
Inability For It To Sustain A
Constructive National Purpose
Is Taking Longer To Show.
I Placed The Following Here
On 8/19/2012 And Concurrently
Elsewhere On The Web.
On 8/20/2012 I
Discovered This.
As Far As I Can Tell
The Following Is Entirely
Original Apart From The Idea
Of There Existing An Economics
Of Intuition
(I Use This, Which Is A
2-Sided Coin. Please Cite
Me When Applying My Ideas.)
Who Will Be No. 1 In College
Football And Basketball This Year?
Look To AP? UPI?
Steven B. Caudill, Rhodes College
(from earlier, in this section)
Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.,
Columbus State Univ., Believed Now
Univ. of So. Mississippi
Steven B. Caudill, Rhodes College
Thomas Randolph Beard,
Auburn Univ.
Dear Professors:
Next Up?
The Economics Of Crowdsourcing
And Its Surprising Validity?
The Economics Of Intuition:
The Authors Confirm
A Relation Between Pairings
Of Coach Performances
And Team Rankings.
This, I Presume, Was
In Effect Economics' First
Analysis Of Gaming.
Bookmakers In Vegas
Legally Assign Dollar Values
To Game Result Expectations.
Those Can Be Compared With
Actual Results, Of Course.
It Would Seem To Me
The Numbers Of Respective
Betters Per Contest And
The Spreads Of Dollar
Amount Bets Placed
Provide A Dollar Value
To Variation From What
One Might Expect
Precisely From Your
Empirical Win-Loss
Information From
Pairwise Matchups.
One Would Anticipate
A Set Of Games, Apply
The Formula To The
Anticipated Match-Ups,
And Ask A Hotel For A
Copy Of Its Book.
(Play-Betting In Class
Would Not Yield The
Same Credibility To The
Dollar Values. There's
A Difference Between
Play-Chance And Real-
Chance.)
Superior Selection By The
Group Would Be A
Priced-Out Measurement
Of Intuition, Measurable
Along Time.
In Clinical Practice, The
Placebo Effect Is A Real,
Tangible Effect, Reflecting
Some Elusive Hormonal
Influence.
If It Should Be The Case
There Are Superior Results
From Group Intuition Than
From Using Pairings
Of Coach Performances
And Team Rankings
Alone, I Would Ask:
Are Formuli, For Forecasting,
Algorithmic Mindmaps That
Fall Short Of The Full Spread
Of Variables Sensed By
Human Judgement?
This Would Be Why Capt.
Kirk Could Be Right Where
Mr. Spock Would Be Wrong.
This Is How A Coach Could
Look Like A Bonehead One
Minute And A Genius
Five Minutes Later.
This Is Not Simply The
Contradiction In The Red
October Crew's High Regard
For Capt. Ramius One
Minute, And Their Doubts
About His Tactics Later,
But It's The Price That
Would Have Been Paid
If He Were Overruled.
The Uncooperative
Patient Is Making An
Independent Risk/Reward
Guess As To Medications
Or Procedures And, While
Not Doubting The Doctor's
Knowledge, Devaluing The
Doctor's Judgement.
(Besides Trust-Engendering,
What This Page Is
Substantially About, New
Ways Of Explaining
Monitoring And "Very Bad"
Risks Of Inaction, Without
Worsening The Patient's
Emotional State, Can Help.)
The Placebo Effect, On The
Other Hand, Is The Brain
Making Something Happen.
It's Wanting A Hormone
To Do Something, And
Getting It.
Does Betting On Sports
Reflect Poor Judgement,
Or Does It Hone Judgement
Skills, Or Are Both Correct?
Our Monopolists Aren't
Really Expert At Gaming,
It Just Looks That Way.
The Answer Is Out There.
Crowdsourcing And Diagnosing
Disease, Shows Positive Effect.
Particularly, From Work Of
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Risk Equalization
(2-Way: Pay A Central Fund
For Excessive Cherry Picking /
Collect From A Fund For
Taking On >Mean Risk)
Doctors / Insurers
Naked To Each Other
Introduce Competition /
End Immunity From The
Anti-Trust Laws
I Happen To Consider Medical
Savings Accounts A Preposterous Idea.
They Incentivize Not Seeing The Doctor.
You Ought To Be Getting Regular Physicals,
And, Depending On Your Family / Own
History/ies, Every So Many Years
Having Cameras Run Variously
From One End Of Your Body To Another.
This Is Though Health Insurance
Has Offered Present-Risk Protection
On A Risk-Averse Basis And The Industry
Has Known All Its Customers
Will Require Expensive Care But
In The Meanwhile
Collect No Cash Surrender Value.
I Still Don't Like Medical Savings
Accounts (Same Reason.)
Shift The Risk, And You Have
Risk Gamed. Have People Less Capable
Of Paying Prices Presented
By An Oligopoly Helped Publicly, And You
Have Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing.
Offhand I Can't Think Of
A More Carefully Crafted Example
Of It, Let Alone With The
Assistance Of Government,
Let Alone X2 Combined With
The Assisted Gaming Of Risk.
Is The Government Supporting Monopoly?
Yes.
Is It Aiding In The Gaming Of Risk?
Yes.
(Neither Is Legal Advice.)
(They're Immune From
Anti-Trust Anyway. Again.)
If You're Still Good With That,
Brother, I Hope You Only
Visit Vegas For The Entertainment.
I Think The New Rules As To
Exclusions Make It Less Obvious,
But I Also Think The Monopolistic
Pricing Assures It.
I Can Only Imagine The
Middle-Ager Who's Surely
Presented / Presenting With
Risk Who's Already Had A
Choice Of Go Naked Or
Premium Death Spiral Is
Not Much Less Scared Today.
At Least This Week, It's A
Foregone Conclusion He Has
A "Just Go Away" Deductible
And Dreads Going To The
Doctor Because Of It.
How Much ObamaCare Changes
That Is Questionable, To Me,
But Probably It's Very Little,
Though The Construction Of
Coverages And Premiums Can
Make It Cloudy, Even Coming
From A Fully Preserved
Oligopoly.
With Cable, It's Generally
Pay More / Get Less With
Minimal Alternative, But
With The Pickings
Monopolistically Created.
The Currency Becomes A
Monopoly If It's Controlled
By A Handful Of Banks.
Colonialism Past Could Be
Egregious Multiple Ways,
With Monopoly Control
Of Income Sources Being
One Of Them.
Sounds About Right, Here Too.
Some Comparisons
Made Long Ago:
Krugman As To Ryan
Obama's Surprising Resemblance
Ooh. This Too.
More.
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Savings Accounts A Preposterous Idea.
They Incentivize Not Seeing The Doctor.
You Ought To Be Getting Regular Physicals,
And, Depending On Your Family / Own
History/ies, Every So Many Years
Having Cameras Run Variously
From One End Of Your Body To Another.
This Is Though Health Insurance
Has Offered Present-Risk Protection
On A Risk-Averse Basis And The Industry
Has Known All Its Customers
Will Require Expensive Care But
In The Meanwhile
Collect No Cash Surrender Value.
I Still Don't Like Medical Savings
Accounts (Same Reason.)
Shift The Risk, And You Have
Risk Gamed. Have People Less Capable
Of Paying Prices Presented
By An Oligopoly Helped Publicly, And You
Have Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing.
Offhand I Can't Think Of
A More Carefully Crafted Example
Of It, Let Alone With The
Assistance Of Government,
Let Alone X2 Combined With
The Assisted Gaming Of Risk.
Is The Government Supporting Monopoly?
Yes.
Is It Aiding In The Gaming Of Risk?
Yes.
(Neither Is Legal Advice.)
(They're Immune From
Anti-Trust Anyway. Again.)
If You're Still Good With That,
Brother, I Hope You Only
Visit Vegas For The Entertainment.
I Think The New Rules As To
Exclusions Make It Less Obvious,
But I Also Think The Monopolistic
Pricing Assures It.
I Can Only Imagine The
Middle-Ager Who's Surely
Presented / Presenting With
Risk Who's Already Had A
Choice Of Go Naked Or
Premium Death Spiral Is
Not Much Less Scared Today.
At Least This Week, It's A
Foregone Conclusion He Has
A "Just Go Away" Deductible
And Dreads Going To The
Doctor Because Of It.
How Much ObamaCare Changes
That Is Questionable, To Me,
But Probably It's Very Little,
Though The Construction Of
Coverages And Premiums Can
Make It Cloudy, Even Coming
From A Fully Preserved
Oligopoly.
With Cable, It's Generally
Pay More / Get Less With
Minimal Alternative, But
With The Pickings
Monopolistically Created.
The Currency Becomes A
Monopoly If It's Controlled
By A Handful Of Banks.
Colonialism Past Could Be
Egregious Multiple Ways,
With Monopoly Control
Of Income Sources Being
One Of Them.
Sounds About Right, Here Too.
Some Comparisons
Made Long Ago:
Krugman As To Ryan
Obama's Surprising Resemblance
Ooh. This Too.
More.
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Air Pollution: Stroke, Memory Loss Risks
(adds to a tremendous laundry
list of increased morbidity risks,
including cardiovascular, carcinogenic)
SEE BROADER IDEA AS TO THIS
Whitney's death is a failure.
I address the issue of
"mental health parity" below; but,
that's a pharma and sector structure
issue apart from obvious need.
Many people are impacted
with "this or that" from time to time--
if it should be Whitney despaired,
she should have been able to contemplate
only straightforward analysis and no
reason for shame.
Having to lose Whitney is a poor measure.
Although there are very many people in
health care who are very special, in many
dedicated settings, on the broader scale our
system is wanton in:
TRUST. WARMTH.
DISPELLING FEAR.
Instead of:
--you're just there
--you're sort of covered, at extravagent cost
--costs will be shifted to you from people
you thought you could ignore but who
instead simply arrive in the system
desparately late, but we're good with
it cause our risk is pre-defined (-or-)
same but with: we're good with MORE
volume because our profit is
volume-based
it should be:
--you're covered
--we will help you avoid the fear,
lack of trust, and even number
of times you feel less whole
from experiencing debility
--Oh, and by the way, Earth's ills
have already been, and will at
an accelerating rate become
your (clinical) ills, and now that we're
all on board this sector's preventionism
(all the while drippingly capitalist)
that is fair to you, it will also be
your partner in keeping not only your
family and community healthy
but your planet survivable and
preferably as close to human-ideal
as possible.
ObamaCare is not Prevention-Oriented,
but rather is cost-plus based,
carriers guaranteed high margins
on volume, risk beyond that subsidized
by way of high risk exchanges.
BUT, it IS an
improvement from this.
There Is A Certain Irony In That Though
ObamaCare May Very Well Engender
"Tiering," The Publicly-Supported
High Risk Pools Will Likelier Much
Better Rationalize In A Fashion
Engendering More Trust.
However, Simply Apportioning
Risk Fairly System-Wide Would
Instill Very High Trust, High
Efficiency, Essentially Complete
Fairness, Particularly If The Immunity
Of The Health Cartel From the Anti-
Trust Laws Were Repealed.
That Would Also Remove Any
Systemic "Weak Links."
Non-Whole-Food Food In Your Gut
The Keck Foundation Adopts
The Center for Food Safety Imploring
For Stringent GMO Controls
It Also Extends a New $150 Gift
To USC's Medical Center
(yikes)
This Is What Privatizing Revenue,
Socializing Cost Looks Like
L.A. schoolkids get shafted on food
preparation and the food industry uses
that as a pretense for shafting them
on nutrition.
I LOVE THE SMELL OF
FALSE PRETENSES
IN THE MORNING
CU On GE Food
ENEN:
Simply ending the cartel (immunity from
the anti-trust laws) and further removing
the funnel assuring the current cartel receive
mainly risk-free customers and the government everyone else (except the multiple flavors of
make-it-up conservatism want to end even
that part of the sector, leaving you with only
"go to Hxxx,") would enable the HMO's to
better fulfill their original promise, because
currently they compete with monopolists
only responsible for mostly risk-free people.
Change that and the public option becomes
less relevant. The original HMO concept
married sensible incentives, including high
professional and financial incentives with
ambition, but better aligned that ambition
with health maintenance on top of helping
avoid monopolistic entrapment.
So this whole sector's issue is about a simple
adjustment of "structure and process"
such that we eliminate the charade element.
Updated position as to banking reform.
Sicko
Mr. Moore should simply indicate that persons
from across the political spectrum have
been confusing crony capitalislm with capitalism.
Adam Smith in reality.
The reference by one person
(NO connection to ENEN
with the creator of the video or the
intermediary - website sourcing it)
to the dramatically
higher risk from car accidents than
from the disease addressed by the
vaccine discussed
plays into a theme: connecting the
disciplines: IT, engineering generally,
transporation, education,
elder care, health maintenance.
Further computerization of cars
themselves should be coordinated with
new flex-tech transportation.
"structure and process-" aligned with
efficient returns but along with protection
of the commons from excessive corporate,
or spill-over wrongful
corporate influence, that all still drippingly
capitalist
The Failure of A System, A National Disgrace,
Nothing Desired by the American People, Just
Something Their Creepy Leaders Are
Really O.K. With
Our cities should be more
accomodative of this.
Making Car Accidents Invisible
Supports The Over-Reliance on Cars
These calculations as to the
project envisioned
pursuant to Georgia's Transportation
Investment
are applicable generally.
Simply Removing the Aspect
of Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
(e.g.,)
and Simply
Making Policy, Fully Conforming
With Free Enterprise Incentivization,
Including Caring About Opportunity,
Growth For All, and Health and
Happiness, Actually Can Obviate
Confronting the Specific Choices
Mentioned Here For Many Many
Years, Most Likely, ENEN feels.
The Department of Transportation
should be folded into the Department
of Health and Human Services.
(WHY)
Efforts in transportation should bear
on efficiency and quality of life.
A nation can park armed forces
overseas ostensibly for the protection
of that nation, but it would then
make no sense to let wanting
alignment of purpose and structure
needlessly perennially
cost many thousands of lives
and hundreds of thousands
of serious injuries.
As the site gets more seasoned
and the monopolies become
more obvious I'll take advantage
of phone videos of accidents
as they happen and
families emotionally
devastated from this.
(more as to my own attitude on this)
Transportation Is Not Only
Transportation.
It’s Health Care.
It’s Families.
This Is Jackpot
Helpful; However,
It Places Our Health
And Happiness
Subordinate To
Creative Engineering,
Rather Than Creative
Engineering Subordinate
To Our Health And Happiness.
Pushiness Is Sometimes Needed
In Health Care Delivery. For
What It's Worth, I Personally
Would Insist On Measuring The
Compassion-Oriented Readiness
Of Emergency Care Workers,
As, Especially Today, Some
Of These People Arrive From
Mid-Life Career Changes, And Then
Sometimes Not Because Of Innately
Compassionate Natures. It's
Because So Many People In Today's
World Are Dispassionate That I
Relish The Opportunity To
Make The Point.
Simply Fix That And Our Public
Schools Will Easily Afford This.
We Can’t Tackle Heart Disease
Without Making Pedestrians Safe
When We Make Walking Anywhere
In Our Cities Fun We’ll
Have Glorious Cities.
Obviously, My Readers
Understand
THIS
Is Part And Parcel To
Health Status.
But Now They Have
THIS
Too.
I Can't Now Fully Trust
Administrators Regulating
Engineers Testing The Edge
Of Efficiency / Safety In Such
Things As Air Safety, And It
Doesn't Help When
TSA Does This:
Letter from Faculty of the
University of California,
San Francisco ,
So, That Now Has To
Include Airframe Design.
The Influence Runs
To Transportation
And Energy.
Needs Explicit Explanation
For When You Reach
"Possibilities."
(Theoretical:)
Oil: Lend To One's Would-Be
Competitors Knowing You Have
Command Of Market Product
Supply; Flood The Market;
Claim Your Sharecroppers.
The Mortgage Parallel:
Lend To Unqualified's.
Insure For A Fee.
Short And Sell Shorts
For A Fee.
And Water.
It's Simple:
Restore Democracy.
Prioritize Health and
Happiness.
For Each Sector With
Monopoly Value Taken,
There Is Someone,
Quite Possibly Browbeatin',
Paying For It.
I'm For The Fair Treatment.
You Do The Running Over.
Health Insurers Are
Playing Monopoly
Exactly In The Manner Of Any
Other Monopolists.
Major ISP's Are In.
The Large Banks Are Entrenched.
Near Free Reserves For The
People Who Brought Down
The Economy.
Nothing For You On Your
Savings.
The Banks Can Pay
Windfall Profits Taxes.
You Can Insist On Fair
Treatment Of Risk Across
The Full Health Care
System.
So, Everything Pertains
The Whole Person.
Health / Happiness Being
Foundational Is Not A
Platitude.
Get That Down,
Then Have This.
Having Now Used The
Work Of Multiple Health
Professions,
I Propose
THESE Groups
Circulate People
To Explore Assisting
Our Police Departments
In Better Assessing Their
Employment Candidates.
That Capt. Picard Frequently
Turned To Diana Troy For
Assistance Appears Having
Been Visionary.
------
Coming From Public Health
I Can Only Wonder What's
The Point If This Can Happen
Inside A U-C Quad.
(Just Betw U And Me:
I Was A Youngster In 1970
When Collegians Peaceably
Demonstrating Were Routed At
One Of The Colleges I
Would Very Soon
Thereafter Attend.
(Ronnie Kovic was
in the house.))
THESE Groups
Circulate People
To Explore Assisting
Our Police Departments
In Better Assessing Their
Employment Candidates.
That Capt. Picard Frequently
Turned To Diana Troy For
Assistance Appears Having
Been Visionary.
------
Coming From Public Health
I Can Only Wonder What's
The Point If This Can Happen
Inside A U-C Quad.
(Just Betw U And Me:
I Was A Youngster In 1970
When Collegians Peaceably
Demonstrating Were Routed At
One Of The Colleges I
Would Very Soon
Thereafter Attend.
(Ronnie Kovic was
in the house.))
Whether It's The Chronic Bully Or
The Participant In This, The Same
Health Ed / Health Info System
I Propose Can "Place On The
Radar" Individuals Who Are
Displacing Personal Insecurities /
Issues. These
Persons
(Clearly Written So As To Make
"Grandpa" Look Likeably Silly
Where He's Insecurely Prejudiced)
Endanger
Us All
This Is About A
Few Bad Apples But
We Can't Have A
Population Afraid Of
Its Own Police.
This Is About
Health Centrally For
Both, The Public
And The Police With
Issues
------
(includes this, potentially,
for instance)
------
------
------
Besides Flashing On The
Radar Screens Of A
Health Information System
Indications Of Problems,
Frankly This Suggests That
There's Something Falling
Short In Training.
Admittedly Hindsight Is
Always 20-20, And Cops
Know Their Families Depend
On Their Staying Safe, Which
I Would Not Want Them To
Forget, But Here The Course
Of Action Should Have Been
Calling Animal Control So The
Disabled Person Could
Be Helped Quickly.
This Dog Was Obviously
Just Being Defensive
Until Provoked, So It Simply
Looks Like An Attitude Of
I Can Handle This Cause
I Have A Gun. It Seems
Obvious The Poor Fella With
The Seizure Had The Dog
Trained Precisely For The
Protection Demonstrated For
When He Passes Out.
The Dog Nipped At, Yet Did
Not Bite, One Woman When
She Got A Little Too Close,
Obviously Hoping To Help
The Guy On The Ground.
Notwithstanding That The
Shooter Can Be Seen
Approaching The Dog,
Ready To Shoot.
My Guess Would Be That
Dog Was Remarkably Well
Trained--Possibly TV/Film
Production Quality.
In View Of The Patient's
Special Needs, I Wonder
If That Was A Service
Dog.
If So, It Likely
Would Have Already
Changed Lives Even
Prior To Helping The
Patient In The Video.
Its Death Will Shatter Its
Owner, Now To Have
Seizures At Sufferance To
Any Passer-By.
-----
I Occassionally Share, With
Others, Pizza Slices And Beer
With Officers From A Precinct
Bordering A Health Club I Attend.
The Creator Of Star Trek, I
Believe, Was LAPD For A Time.
The Police Are A Cornerstone
Of Public Safety. There Are
Very Very Many Selfless
Thoughtful Officers, But These
Shortcomings Have To Be
Fixed Pronto.
How Can We Possibly Let
It Be That The People We
Need To Trust Are Also
The People We Now Have
To Be Apprehensive About?
The Participant In This, The Same
Health Ed / Health Info System
I Propose Can "Place On The
Radar" Individuals Who Are
Displacing Personal Insecurities /
Issues. These
Persons
(Clearly Written So As To Make
"Grandpa" Look Likeably Silly
Where He's Insecurely Prejudiced)
Endanger
Us All
This Is About A
Few Bad Apples But
We Can't Have A
Population Afraid Of
Its Own Police.
This Is About
Health Centrally For
Both, The Public
And The Police With
Issues
------
(includes this, potentially,
for instance)
------
------
------
Besides Flashing On The
Radar Screens Of A
Health Information System
Indications Of Problems,
Frankly This Suggests That
There's Something Falling
Short In Training.
Admittedly Hindsight Is
Always 20-20, And Cops
Know Their Families Depend
On Their Staying Safe, Which
I Would Not Want Them To
Forget, But Here The Course
Of Action Should Have Been
Calling Animal Control So The
Disabled Person Could
Be Helped Quickly.
This Dog Was Obviously
Just Being Defensive
Until Provoked, So It Simply
Looks Like An Attitude Of
I Can Handle This Cause
I Have A Gun. It Seems
Obvious The Poor Fella With
The Seizure Had The Dog
Trained Precisely For The
Protection Demonstrated For
When He Passes Out.
The Dog Nipped At, Yet Did
Not Bite, One Woman When
She Got A Little Too Close,
Obviously Hoping To Help
The Guy On The Ground.
Notwithstanding That The
Shooter Can Be Seen
Approaching The Dog,
Ready To Shoot.
My Guess Would Be That
Dog Was Remarkably Well
Trained--Possibly TV/Film
Production Quality.
In View Of The Patient's
Special Needs, I Wonder
If That Was A Service
Dog.
If So, It Likely
Would Have Already
Changed Lives Even
Prior To Helping The
Patient In The Video.
Its Death Will Shatter Its
Owner, Now To Have
Seizures At Sufferance To
Any Passer-By.
-----
I Occassionally Share, With
Others, Pizza Slices And Beer
With Officers From A Precinct
Bordering A Health Club I Attend.
The Creator Of Star Trek, I
Believe, Was LAPD For A Time.
The Police Are A Cornerstone
Of Public Safety. There Are
Very Very Many Selfless
Thoughtful Officers, But These
Shortcomings Have To Be
Fixed Pronto.
How Can We Possibly Let
It Be That The People We
Need To Trust Are Also
The People We Now Have
To Be Apprehensive About?
Despite There Existing
Innumerable Input
Sources In The Area Of
Health Policy And Medical Care
Organization And Management,
I Obviously Don't Believe In
Being Transfixed When The Goals
As To Access, Quality, Trust,
Efficiency, Effectiveness, Clinically
Rational And Thereby Intrinsic
Cost Control Are
Really Not Difficult To Focus On.
If We Had Been Doing Better
Along All Those Lines We'd
Already Have A Far Better Health
Education Infrastructure
Than We Have.
I've Proposed Health Information
Systems Proactively Going Beyond
Data Collection And Quality, Outcomes
And Access Measures. Happily, As I've
Cited, This Additional Approach Is
Already A Reality For Some.
Now, It's Time Someone Informed
The Leaderships Of The American
Psychiatric And Psychology
Associations That They Might Be
Less Transfixed, More Proactive
In This Area.
Even Mild Depression
Shortens Lifespan
As To Persons Who Would Become
More Volatile Upon Dwelling On
Unsettled Issues, Education
Initiatives Can Generically Portray
The Wipe-out
They May Be Causing
On Loved-Ones Beach.
(Or, They Can Share
Their Secret Pains With
Sybok So He Can Lift
Them Off)
As To Those With Insecurities,
Confusion, Or Other Fundamental
Syndromes Who Are Not At Risk
From More Awareness Absent
Supervision, Doctors Can Decide
Where More Self-Identification
Might Be Safe And Appropriate.
The Health Education Function
Might Have An Assuring Dimension:
The Obnoxiousness Stops With
The Obnoxious.
I'm Personally Tired Of
Seeing People Dump On People
Who Entrusted Their Lives With
Overgrown Unsettled Children.
A Couple Ways By Which
The Mental Health Professions
Can Work At Being Less
Transfixed: Look At Reverse
ETF's When The VIX' Beta Swings.
Play A Card Game At The
MGM Grand Las Vegas And
Know When To Fold.
Other Health Information /
Health Education Related
Sections:
-1- -2- -3-
The Sooner Our Mental
Health Professionals
Can Impact Our Control
Freaks, Be They In An
Alley Around The Corner,
In Congress, Or At A Meeting
At A Political Organization
That's A Glorified Gang
Of Angry People, The
Sooner Persons Such As
Myself Would Ever So
Much As Begin Thinking
About Political Life.
The Professions Appear
To Be Losing Ground, Not
Gaining It.
Eliciting The Angers And
Deprivations, One Shrink,
With One Of Her Patients
At A Time, Is Too Slow.
Innumerable Input
Sources In The Area Of
Health Policy And Medical Care
Organization And Management,
I Obviously Don't Believe In
Being Transfixed When The Goals
As To Access, Quality, Trust,
Efficiency, Effectiveness, Clinically
Rational And Thereby Intrinsic
Cost Control Are
Really Not Difficult To Focus On.
If We Had Been Doing Better
Along All Those Lines We'd
Already Have A Far Better Health
Education Infrastructure
Than We Have.
I've Proposed Health Information
Systems Proactively Going Beyond
Data Collection And Quality, Outcomes
And Access Measures. Happily, As I've
Cited, This Additional Approach Is
Already A Reality For Some.
Now, It's Time Someone Informed
The Leaderships Of The American
Psychiatric And Psychology
Associations That They Might Be
Less Transfixed, More Proactive
In This Area.
Even Mild Depression
Shortens Lifespan
As To Persons Who Would Become
More Volatile Upon Dwelling On
Unsettled Issues, Education
Initiatives Can Generically Portray
The Wipe-out
They May Be Causing
On Loved-Ones Beach.
(Or, They Can Share
Their Secret Pains With
Sybok So He Can Lift
Them Off)
As To Those With Insecurities,
Confusion, Or Other Fundamental
Syndromes Who Are Not At Risk
From More Awareness Absent
Supervision, Doctors Can Decide
Where More Self-Identification
Might Be Safe And Appropriate.
The Health Education Function
Might Have An Assuring Dimension:
The Obnoxiousness Stops With
The Obnoxious.
I'm Personally Tired Of
Seeing People Dump On People
Who Entrusted Their Lives With
Overgrown Unsettled Children.
A Couple Ways By Which
The Mental Health Professions
Can Work At Being Less
Transfixed: Look At Reverse
ETF's When The VIX' Beta Swings.
Play A Card Game At The
MGM Grand Las Vegas And
Know When To Fold.
Other Health Information /
Health Education Related
Sections:
-1- -2- -3-
The Sooner Our Mental
Health Professionals
Can Impact Our Control
Freaks, Be They In An
Alley Around The Corner,
In Congress, Or At A Meeting
At A Political Organization
That's A Glorified Gang
Of Angry People, The
Sooner Persons Such As
Myself Would Ever So
Much As Begin Thinking
About Political Life.
The Professions Appear
To Be Losing Ground, Not
Gaining It.
Eliciting The Angers And
Deprivations, One Shrink,
With One Of Her Patients
At A Time, Is Too Slow.
Most basic aspects
of growing human capital, such as
education, relate to health
outlook. Anything of positive affect
as to body to mind, mind to body
(think: happy neuropeptides)
matter to the filling of a void
that should not have taken
so long to prioritize:
setting goals,
particularly health / happiness.
Basic recreational opportunities,
as well as cultural ones, are
core elements, along with a
diverse educational
inspiration.
That, transportation, and the
environment, all share
that common denominator.
They should structurally feed
into HHS.
Our cities should be more
accomodative of this.
++++++
Here's one thing very
right Mr. Chavez accomplished.
of growing human capital, such as
education, relate to health
outlook. Anything of positive affect
as to body to mind, mind to body
(think: happy neuropeptides)
matter to the filling of a void
that should not have taken
so long to prioritize:
setting goals,
particularly health / happiness.
Basic recreational opportunities,
as well as cultural ones, are
core elements, along with a
diverse educational
inspiration.
That, transportation, and the
environment, all share
that common denominator.
They should structurally feed
into HHS.
Our cities should be more
accomodative of this.
++++++
Here's one thing very
right Mr. Chavez accomplished.
If her father
(see this analogy)
(also, Adara's father
wanted to avoid this)
...had been admitted to the hospital,
had gone medically bankrupt, and had
bankrupted his family, his bill would have
still been run up.
His unpaid cost would have been, as it has
always been, built into your health insurance
premiums because of the "cost shifting."
So, you've been paying for unreimbursed care
all along, though the medically financially
reluctant patient is on the receiving
end of a violently anti-social
health care delivery system. The health
insurance cartel leaves you with only
two things: stupid system they can't lose
Of course, the monetary and banking
regulatory policies have been based
on the same two things, which has
nothing whatsoever to do with the
choice of capitalism or not.
Monopoly, bribery, control and old men
full of hot air have nothing
to do with free enterprise.
Vermont's Universal Health
System To Significantly
Slow Health Care Spending
(see this analogy)
(also, Adara's father
wanted to avoid this)
...had been admitted to the hospital,
had gone medically bankrupt, and had
bankrupted his family, his bill would have
still been run up.
His unpaid cost would have been, as it has
always been, built into your health insurance
premiums because of the "cost shifting."
So, you've been paying for unreimbursed care
all along, though the medically financially
reluctant patient is on the receiving
end of a violently anti-social
health care delivery system. The health
insurance cartel leaves you with only
two things: stupid system they can't lose
Of course, the monetary and banking
regulatory policies have been based
on the same two things, which has
nothing whatsoever to do with the
choice of capitalism or not.
Monopoly, bribery, control and old men
full of hot air have nothing
to do with free enterprise.
Vermont's Universal Health
System To Significantly
Slow Health Care Spending
Mental Health Parity (Lobby
Government Approved Insurance
Mandate) at 45:00
It's not really as bad as that
and related videos would make it out.
Overwhelmingly providers do all
they can to make patients
NOT dependent on anything.
However, the corrupting of
practice by such things
as not reimbursing absent the
writing of prescriptions is a
preposterous situation.
This is a challenging topic
inasmuch as I personally have
never met a health professional
who was also a control freak,
though on the radio
a faux-professional
might make a business
out of that.
Tout de même.
I'm Guessing Part Of What
Goes On Is People Listen
To Would-Be/Sort-Of Psychologists
On The Radio, Who Accidentally
Let On Being Control Freaks,
And Then Paint A Broader Picture
From That.
Of Course, We Profit From Diversity
And Not Being Cookie-Cutter When
Those Advantages Aren't Held Under
A Thumb.
States Crack Down On
Mental Health Prescriptions
Former U.S. Representative
Patricia Schroeder
From The U.C. Davis
Pepper Spraying
Incident, Don't Doubt
The Need
I'm Actually Interested In
Giving Our Mental Health
Professionals Some Additional
Tasks, However:
Government Approved Insurance
Mandate) at 45:00
It's not really as bad as that
and related videos would make it out.
Overwhelmingly providers do all
they can to make patients
NOT dependent on anything.
However, the corrupting of
practice by such things
as not reimbursing absent the
writing of prescriptions is a
preposterous situation.
This is a challenging topic
inasmuch as I personally have
never met a health professional
who was also a control freak,
though on the radio
a faux-professional
might make a business
out of that.
Tout de même.
I'm Guessing Part Of What
Goes On Is People Listen
To Would-Be/Sort-Of Psychologists
On The Radio, Who Accidentally
Let On Being Control Freaks,
And Then Paint A Broader Picture
From That.
Of Course, We Profit From Diversity
And Not Being Cookie-Cutter When
Those Advantages Aren't Held Under
A Thumb.
States Crack Down On
Mental Health Prescriptions
Former U.S. Representative
Patricia Schroeder
From The U.C. Davis
Pepper Spraying
Incident, Don't Doubt
The Need
I'm Actually Interested In
Giving Our Mental Health
Professionals Some Additional
Tasks, However:
Now To Raid Some People’s Territory:
That Emotional Unhappiness Is
Emotional Unhealthfulness Has
Been Appreciated For
Generations.
Tranq’s Have Been Around For
Generations. I Think It’s Time
To See The Unhappy Person’s
Being Plainly An Unhealthy
Person As A Public Health Issue.
Health Education On Levels
Generically Addressing Relevant
Issues, Such As Advising To Not
Compensate For Personal Issues At
Others’ Expense, Might Be Jointly
Considered On
The Academic Level By Those In
Public Health Per Se And Those In
Mental Health And Social Work
Together.
I Actually See That As The
Operative Core, Though
Educators Especially, And
Lawyers, Will Be Interested.
Public Health Should
Research “The Bully” And Consider
Interventional Protocols.
Some Readers Came Here
From
THIS Point
Now Seeing THIS
(I'm Guessing That
Would NOT Involve
Radiation Exposure,
Though, If It Does,
People Should Be
Aware Of Its Use)
I Propose
It’s Time Health
Planners Consider Nationwide
Personal Radiation Exposure
Totalling Systems. Each X-Ray.
Each CAT Scan. Each Panoramic
X-Ray For Dental Implants. Each Trip
Through TSA / Your Local Airport.
A Place For Adding An Estimate
Of Height of Day Sun Exposure.
A Place For Estimating Hours Flown,
Except At Night (Your Airplane
Isn't Made Of Kryptonite Cause
It Has To Be Light Enough To Fly;
However, At Night, Earth Likely Shields
You From Radiation;
A Place For Estimating Hours Of Close
Cell Phone Operative Proximity.
Radiotraces Are Improving
Dramatically But Doctors
Can Enter Values.
Ditto Radiotherapeutics.
For This Doctors Will
Have To Invent A
Mapping Strategy
I Think Alternatives Should
Still Be Sought.
An Approximate Picture Is The Goal.
At Some Point This Becomes A
Judgement Issue For The Doctor And
A Wake-Up Call To The Community.
This Sector Remembers Its Oath
Regardless Of Whether Our Leaders
Do Or Even Whether
All Our TBTF Banks Should Even
Retain Their Corporate Charters.
Concern For Dental X-Rays Clearly
Means Less Without Being Placed In The
Context Of Prior Radiation Exposures.
There’s Seeing The Forest For The Trees.
Then There’s Getting Lost In The
Midst Of Oceans Of Forest.
I Try Prioritizing As To Anti-Monopolistic
Influence And Basic Desired Goals
Economically And In Terms Of
Health Information, Health Education,
Strategically, And Public Health In
The Sensibly Achieved End.
As Forests Go, Health Care
Might As Well Be The Amazon,
So Don't Be Surprised If
I Type This Elsewhere.
Modest Innovations In Health Ed/
Health Info Are Sprinkled
Across Multiple Locations, But
Generally Linked From HERE.
This Can Be Another “Tributary.”
Of Course I’ve No Idea If There’s
The Slightest Truth To Any
“Chemtrails” Rumors. If Any,
And If Involving Microscopically
Shredded Metal, And Particularly
If Over The Heads Of People,
Then I Would Think Whoever’s
Doing It Warrants THIS.
-----
(I'm Guessing That
Would NOT Involve
Radiation Exposure,
Though, If It Does,
People Should Be
Aware Of Its Use)
I Propose
It’s Time Health
Planners Consider Nationwide
Personal Radiation Exposure
Totalling Systems. Each X-Ray.
Each CAT Scan. Each Panoramic
X-Ray For Dental Implants. Each Trip
Through TSA / Your Local Airport.
A Place For Adding An Estimate
Of Height of Day Sun Exposure.
A Place For Estimating Hours Flown,
Except At Night (Your Airplane
Isn't Made Of Kryptonite Cause
It Has To Be Light Enough To Fly;
However, At Night, Earth Likely Shields
You From Radiation;
A Place For Estimating Hours Of Close
Cell Phone Operative Proximity.
Radiotraces Are Improving
Dramatically But Doctors
Can Enter Values.
Ditto Radiotherapeutics.
For This Doctors Will
Have To Invent A
Mapping Strategy
I Think Alternatives Should
Still Be Sought.
An Approximate Picture Is The Goal.
At Some Point This Becomes A
Judgement Issue For The Doctor And
A Wake-Up Call To The Community.
This Sector Remembers Its Oath
Regardless Of Whether Our Leaders
Do Or Even Whether
All Our TBTF Banks Should Even
Retain Their Corporate Charters.
Concern For Dental X-Rays Clearly
Means Less Without Being Placed In The
Context Of Prior Radiation Exposures.
There’s Seeing The Forest For The Trees.
Then There’s Getting Lost In The
Midst Of Oceans Of Forest.
I Try Prioritizing As To Anti-Monopolistic
Influence And Basic Desired Goals
Economically And In Terms Of
Health Information, Health Education,
Strategically, And Public Health In
The Sensibly Achieved End.
As Forests Go, Health Care
Might As Well Be The Amazon,
So Don't Be Surprised If
I Type This Elsewhere.
Modest Innovations In Health Ed/
Health Info Are Sprinkled
Across Multiple Locations, But
Generally Linked From HERE.
This Can Be Another “Tributary.”
Of Course I’ve No Idea If There’s
The Slightest Truth To Any
“Chemtrails” Rumors. If Any,
And If Involving Microscopically
Shredded Metal, And Particularly
If Over The Heads Of People,
Then I Would Think Whoever’s
Doing It Warrants THIS.
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ORIGINAL
ENEN on
Mr. Obama's
offer to allow the U.S. Government to accept competitive bids from pharma cos. in
exchange allowing some of the huge tax
breaks running to the uber-wealthy,
borrowed from China, and financed by
the middle class and its children
and grandchildren to lapse.
(Hint: It's not a real quid pro quo.
Bad people prefer
the middle class bestowing advantages
to the wealthiest; and,
they actually do NOT want the U.S.
Government to be able
to accept competitive bids from pharma.
So, this looks like a cynical offer worth little
more than gag value.)
Reformers are entirely capitalist but oppose
deceit and arrogance, especially
when it has variously anti-social and
sociopathic results.
This is little different
from the
arrogant man in Brazil who ran over
a group of bicyclists to save time.
E.U. Gloats Over Belated U.S. Health Care Reform
NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED
Know also, the FDA is attempting
to eliminate, or all but eliminate, access
to natural supplements (in favor of
pharmaceutical liver
destroying compounds.)
FDA Monitoring / Trumping
Own Scientists (( ? ) Works
Both Ways:)) Small Firm Products
Strenuously Endorsed By
Physician Clinical
Test Conductors Can Remain
Unapproved For Years, Including
After Approvals In Numerous
Other Countries
ENEN:
We Should Be Encouraging
Innovation And Discouraging
Its Stifling, By Such
Mechanisms As Collecting
Research-Funding Grounded
Royalties, Sliding-Scale
Determined By Pharma
Wealth Factors;
Promising Upstart
Work, Including, For
Practicality, The
Credentials Of The
Investigators, Should
Get A Free Pass Except
For Later Milestone Triggers
POTENTIAL ETIOLOGIES DISCUSSED
The FDA and CDC are virtually as
corrupted as is the health delivery system.
For starters, ENEN
would place the Department of
Transportation
under the purview of the Department of
Health and Human Services.
It's overall a good thing the car
was invented. Horses were meant to
become obsolete as a means of
transportation. But award-winning
mass transit systems should never
have been ripped out at the hands
of a corrupted system.
Everything's a double-edged sword.
Today we get to replace it with
the latest stuff, the latest efficiencies
computer science affords.
One of my own grandfathers
published a motor sports magazine.
I'm personally
invested in nat gas (not just stocks.)
We're talking about balance and efficiency
sans the corruption.
DOT should be folded into HHS simply
because transportation is substantially
a health issue, both in terms of
the actual fact of transit as well as because
of the environmental impact.
Too Much The Gatekeeper; Not Enough
The Real Protector?
Forbes / FDA Stifles Cures
The Kiss of Death:
How The U.S. Government is Regulating
Passenger Rail
Out Of Existence
ENEN
The federalization of passenger rail
runs parallel to the creation of Medicare.
Passenger service
is traditionally unprofitable. The
health insurance cartel does not
seek to insure persons with health
risk factors, so Medicare is National
Health Insurance for older persons.
Now, however, there's a war on
against apparently anything / everything
Middle Class, common good - based,
common good - efficient, pro - social.
So, mass transit's role, devastatingly
low in terms of total passenger mile cost,
the balance of trade (and oil imports,) and
the healthful maintenance of habibtat, is
threatened along with Medicare
and Social Security.
At its core a health care delivery system
absolutely must foster trust.
At its core a health care delivery system
must foster ambition, scientific growth,
and satisfaction from helping the
scared and not-so-well.
If one part of it is a shell game, the rest
of it will have to adapt to a shell game.
Free enterprise is not defined by
heads I win, tails you lose.
Stupid system / cost-shifting / heads I win,
tails you lose does not an effective
health care system make.
If you are older, with risk factor, but not old
enough for Medicare (insurance cos. don't want
those customers, except now billionaires
want to -X- that out, then you simply have the
"I'm going to give you a choice you
can't refuse" health care delivery system.
It's actually a lot messier than a gang feud.
10,000's of people die prematurely
annually because of it.
It's the facts of constantly improving technology
and ever changing personal health status that
necessitate having more competition in the
health insurance marketplace, so long as the
system is private-based.
This is substantially a structure and process issue
with ecoonomic power controlling the design,
with efficient incentives and freedom of action
not needing to be lost.
Currently the health insurers are by statute
immune from the anti-trust laws.
Administrative costs and margins above medical
loss ratios being, when combined, exorbitant
as they are, one might consider
(this is not insurance advice--many personal
considerations are involved, and the policies
are one-party-decides moving targets:)
self-insuring the early annual potential expenses
up to an otherwise known large annual premium
total going with higher up-front coverage.
However, if more people were to do that the
cartel would likely start narrowing any
limited self-insuring savings.
ENEN
NOT LEGAL ADVICE
Has the system of potentially excluding risk
factors, administered state by state, in fact
an interference in interstate commerce?
Is it agreeable to most persons that the
ultimate inevitable sufferance of risk factors
is known to predispose persons to a state
wherein they cannot avoid being given
a choice of no-choice, or, of premium
death spirals, at the carrier's whim, or
of "going naked?"
Is that now-you-see-it-now-you-don't
health coverage? Is that fraud?
Repealing healthcare law
would cost $210 bln: CBO
Sen. Richard Blumenthal,
2/5/11 (C-SPAN VIDEO:)
Laws traditionally are first
presumed Constitutional.
Interstate commerce has
been the basis of affirmative
obligations.
25 Shocking Facts That Prove That The
Entire U.S. Health Care Industry Has
Become One Giant Money Making Scam
Massachusetts voters’
dirty little secret
(Romney Disowns Own)
Three-Fourths of Massachusetts
Physicians Support Continuing State's
Health Reform Law
Robert Wood Johnson Fndn
Study Ties Nursing Shift Shortfalls
to Patient Mortality Risk
UCLA School of Public Health
Multiple Studies
More Registerd Nurses
Translates Into Financial
Savings Through Better
Outcomes
(pdf)
Nearly 650,000 San Diegans
Uninsured in 2009
Kenny Goldberg, KPBS
Hospitals may be writing off
heart attack victims too soon when
hypothermia is used
Thomas M. Maugh II,
latimes.com, Nov. 13, 2010
To MRI Or Not To MRI, That
Is The Question; Or, Outcomes
The Same W / W-O, But It Helps
Ditch the Surgery
A glass of wine is fine,
but don't booze up
your neighborhood.
(The behavior is contagious.)
Abusers Are Often Deterred
From Seeking Help Simply
Owing To Financial Fear.
Parallel Medicinal
And Emotionally Diagnostic
Regimens Are Available,
With Physicians Quite Aware
Of The Many Potential
Deep-Seated Or Thoroughly
Practical Bases
(Including Genetic Pre-Disposition)
For Patients'Troubles.
Poor People Obviously Need
A Practical Escape Route From
Drug Addiction, Including,
Possibly The Dutch Methadone
Clinic System.
This Integrates Easily Into
The Very Same
Information / Education
Structures I Propose
SEE
SEE TOO
What Can Be
Another Branch
I Oppose Entrenched
Monopolies On The
Suasion Page
And Otherwise Generally.
Middle Class Families
Are Also At Risk Financially,
In Terms Of Family Stability,
And In Terms Of A
Downward Health Cascade,
From The Same
Inequities Plaguing
The Poor.
Within The Macro Arguments
Against These Inequities Lies
The Following Idea In
Health Care:
Fair Treatment Of Risk.
Removing The Insurers'
Immunity From The Anti-Trust
Laws.
Better Detection of
Malignant Breast Cancer
--Without the Invasive
Biopsy, Without Much of
the Despair
(There should be no financial
despair in this setting.
More can be done to
manage patients' concerns
over their risks.)
"...In a recent column for the Hartford
Courant, Lieberman cited the rising
costs of Medicare to justify his opposition
to expanding the government's role in
health care. But in 2000, when he
was Al Gore's running mate, Lieberman
campaigned on a platform of offering everyone
55 and older an option to "buy-in"
to Medicare. That proposal—which was a
central part of the Gore-Lieberman campaign's
health care plan-- essentially would have
created a robust public option
for people aged 55 to 65...."
Was the odd change of heart as to
the public option then
passed on as insider information as well?
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As Structured, Health
Reform's Windfall for the Health
Insurance Cartel
Millions of Californians lose
health coverage during recession
The 20 Undecided Democrats
Just Loaded With Health
Insurance Industry Money
Dirty Air Costs California
Economy $28 Billion Annually
Buffett: America Desperately
Needs To Change Healthcare If It
Wants To Be Economically Competitive
Bust Up the Health Insurance Trust
Robt. Reich
"... thousands of American retirees in
Mexico have quietly found a solution
of their own, signing up
for the health care plan run by the
Mexican Social Security Institute...."
The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care
"...in 2006 Cleveland Clinic abandoned the
traditional departments in favor of 25 "institutes"
organized by disease or organ system.
This works well for patients, who don't care
whether their back pain is cured by a
rheumatologist, a neurologist, or an
orthopedic surgeon. But, says Regina Herzlinger,
an expert in health-care economics at
Harvard Business School, it runs afoul of the
dominant fee-for-service system of medical
billing, which discourages cooperation across fields.
When Duke University Medical Center set up
a disease-management system for congestive
heart failure, coordinating the efforts of
cardiologists, primary-care doctors, pharmacists,
and nurse practitioners, it drove down the cost
of treatment by 40 percent in a single year,
while reducing readmissions and improving
outcomes....a visit to Cleveland Clinic makes
it hard to avoid the conclusion that if you're looking
for "waste" in the health-care system—defined
as expenses that do not directly contribute to
medical outcomes—a good place to look is the
nation's cobbled-together system of
competing private insurers. "
End of Medicare As We Know It
C-SPAN Video / U.S.
Rep’s Garamendi, Tonko
There is no credible evidence that high-risk
people gaining insurance under health reform
could justify the 59-percent increase in rates
proposed by Blue Shield, UCLA Health
Policy Research Center
Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski
said on the Today in LA program
(link lost and substituted.)
Shana Alex Lavarreda,
Center research scientist and director of health
insurance studies, also discussed the proposed
rate hikes in an interview on KPCC-Southern
California Public Radio
All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal:
Examining The Minnesota Model
Courtney Burke, Lynn Blewett,
healthaffairs.org
eligibility is broader...; adequately funded...;
premiums are low...; ...administration....
The program is a not-for-profit corporation
governed by a board of directors and
regulated by the Minnesota
Department of Commerce...
This is a picture of health maintenance
inputs that should support
the ambitious, efficient, effective,
compassionate, and inclusive
maintenance of health
throughout the U.S.
NOT LEGAL ADVICE
Has the system of potentially excluding risk
factors, administered state by state, in fact
an interference in interstate commerce?
Is it agreeable to most persons that the
ultimate inevitable sufferance of risk factors
is known to predispose persons to a state
wherein they cannot avoid being given
a choice of no-choice, or, of premium
death spirals, at the carrier's whim, or
of "going naked?"
Is that now-you-see-it-now-you-don't
health coverage? Is that fraud?
Repealing healthcare law
would cost $210 bln: CBO
Sen. Richard Blumenthal,
2/5/11 (C-SPAN VIDEO:)
Laws traditionally are first
presumed Constitutional.
Interstate commerce has
been the basis of affirmative
obligations.
25 Shocking Facts That Prove That The
Entire U.S. Health Care Industry Has
Become One Giant Money Making Scam
Massachusetts voters’
dirty little secret
(Romney Disowns Own)
Three-Fourths of Massachusetts
Physicians Support Continuing State's
Health Reform Law
Robert Wood Johnson Fndn
Study Ties Nursing Shift Shortfalls
to Patient Mortality Risk
UCLA School of Public Health
Multiple Studies
More Registerd Nurses
Translates Into Financial
Savings Through Better
Outcomes
(pdf)
Nearly 650,000 San Diegans
Uninsured in 2009
Kenny Goldberg, KPBS
Hospitals may be writing off
heart attack victims too soon when
hypothermia is used
Thomas M. Maugh II,
latimes.com, Nov. 13, 2010
To MRI Or Not To MRI, That
Is The Question; Or, Outcomes
The Same W / W-O, But It Helps
Ditch the Surgery
A glass of wine is fine,
but don't booze up
your neighborhood.
(The behavior is contagious.)
Abusers Are Often Deterred
From Seeking Help Simply
Owing To Financial Fear.
Parallel Medicinal
And Emotionally Diagnostic
Regimens Are Available,
With Physicians Quite Aware
Of The Many Potential
Deep-Seated Or Thoroughly
Practical Bases
(Including Genetic Pre-Disposition)
For Patients'Troubles.
Poor People Obviously Need
A Practical Escape Route From
Drug Addiction, Including,
Possibly The Dutch Methadone
Clinic System.
This Integrates Easily Into
The Very Same
Information / Education
Structures I Propose
SEE
SEE TOO
What Can Be
Another Branch
I Oppose Entrenched
Monopolies On The
Suasion Page
And Otherwise Generally.
Middle Class Families
Are Also At Risk Financially,
In Terms Of Family Stability,
And In Terms Of A
Downward Health Cascade,
From The Same
Inequities Plaguing
The Poor.
Within The Macro Arguments
Against These Inequities Lies
The Following Idea In
Health Care:
Fair Treatment Of Risk.
Removing The Insurers'
Immunity From The Anti-Trust
Laws.
Better Detection of
Malignant Breast Cancer
--Without the Invasive
Biopsy, Without Much of
the Despair
(There should be no financial
despair in this setting.
More can be done to
manage patients' concerns
over their risks.)
"...In a recent column for the Hartford
Courant, Lieberman cited the rising
costs of Medicare to justify his opposition
to expanding the government's role in
health care. But in 2000, when he
was Al Gore's running mate, Lieberman
campaigned on a platform of offering everyone
55 and older an option to "buy-in"
to Medicare. That proposal—which was a
central part of the Gore-Lieberman campaign's
health care plan-- essentially would have
created a robust public option
for people aged 55 to 65...."
Was the odd change of heart as to
the public option then
passed on as insider information as well?
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As Structured, Health
Reform's Windfall for the Health
Insurance Cartel
Millions of Californians lose
health coverage during recession
The 20 Undecided Democrats
Just Loaded With Health
Insurance Industry Money
Dirty Air Costs California
Economy $28 Billion Annually
Buffett: America Desperately
Needs To Change Healthcare If It
Wants To Be Economically Competitive
Bust Up the Health Insurance Trust
Robt. Reich
"... thousands of American retirees in
Mexico have quietly found a solution
of their own, signing up
for the health care plan run by the
Mexican Social Security Institute...."
The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care
"...in 2006 Cleveland Clinic abandoned the
traditional departments in favor of 25 "institutes"
organized by disease or organ system.
This works well for patients, who don't care
whether their back pain is cured by a
rheumatologist, a neurologist, or an
orthopedic surgeon. But, says Regina Herzlinger,
an expert in health-care economics at
Harvard Business School, it runs afoul of the
dominant fee-for-service system of medical
billing, which discourages cooperation across fields.
When Duke University Medical Center set up
a disease-management system for congestive
heart failure, coordinating the efforts of
cardiologists, primary-care doctors, pharmacists,
and nurse practitioners, it drove down the cost
of treatment by 40 percent in a single year,
while reducing readmissions and improving
outcomes....a visit to Cleveland Clinic makes
it hard to avoid the conclusion that if you're looking
for "waste" in the health-care system—defined
as expenses that do not directly contribute to
medical outcomes—a good place to look is the
nation's cobbled-together system of
competing private insurers. "
End of Medicare As We Know It
C-SPAN Video / U.S.
Rep’s Garamendi, Tonko
There is no credible evidence that high-risk
people gaining insurance under health reform
could justify the 59-percent increase in rates
proposed by Blue Shield, UCLA Health
Policy Research Center
Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski
said on the Today in LA program
(link lost and substituted.)
Shana Alex Lavarreda,
Center research scientist and director of health
insurance studies, also discussed the proposed
rate hikes in an interview on KPCC-Southern
California Public Radio
All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal:
Examining The Minnesota Model
Courtney Burke, Lynn Blewett,
healthaffairs.org
eligibility is broader...; adequately funded...;
premiums are low...; ...administration....
The program is a not-for-profit corporation
governed by a board of directors and
regulated by the Minnesota
Department of Commerce...
This is a picture of health maintenance
inputs that should support
the ambitious, efficient, effective,
compassionate, and inclusive
maintenance of health
throughout the U.S.
Chocolate: an almost perfect food.
New: Dr Susanna Larsson,
Karolinska Institute,
Eating Milk Chocolate May
Lower Stroke Risk
Column From Harvard's Health
Letter As To Being Happy
MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT
-1- -2- -3-
-4- -5- -6-
-7- -8- -9-
-10- -11- -12-
-13- -14- -15-
-16-
One Can Lean On Particularly
Healthful Foods, Of Which There
Are Many, Of Course, But, Because
The Human Body Is Defined By
Homeostasis, I Personally See Value
In The Advice Originally Given,
From Academic Memory, By The
American Nurses Association In
The Early Part Of The 20th Century:
Variety And Moderation.
It's Also Not Difficult For The
Non-Professional To Get The Gist
Of The Very Latest Research.
What Humans Learned To Do That
One Should Be Particularly
Cognizant Of (And Careful About)
Is Using Non-Nutritionally Dense
Food Components Separately.
VIDEO
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The Breadth Of, And Domino,
Effects Of Poor Behaviors
Are Endless And Very Serious.
Only Isolated Studies Appear.
I Think People Control Their
Lapses Better When They
Feed Needed.
Good Weight Control
Vs. Bad, Including
Depressive Weight Control
Overweight Women Face Increased
Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
Fat Cells Hormone: Leptin May Have
Link of Breast Cancer Tumor Growth
“Obese Youth Have Significantly
Higher Risk of Gallstones"
Kaiser Permanente
Fat -Bellied People At Higher
Death Risk Than Obese
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More Dangerous Inter-Visceral
Fat ("Belly Fat")
Preferentially Reduced With New
Surgery Using Capsaicin (Salsa)
Have Reward Other Than Eating
Always Available
Walking May Lessen the Influence
of Genes On Obesity by Half
Oh Man, This Is What
I've Been Using
This is an area of obvious urgency,
and it lends itself to lots of self help.
SEE
SEE
The False Sense of Security Matters.
Melanoma Is Where Your PROTECTIVE
Cells Accelerate Reproduction. There's
only one right strategy:
Where a Hat and
Stay Out of the Sun During the
Height of the Day. Piecemeal Maintenance
Is A Failure. Health Education Has
to be Formalized. It Should Be More
Formalized Than This
Endometriosis From Another?
(Note: Doctors Advise Using SOME
Block If You Must Subject Yourself
To Burning UV--Lesser Of 2 Evils
Learn Checking Yourself
For "Changes" In Any Case
--There Is A Genetic Dimension
For Some People)
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Yogurt = Sexy Bod
Antibiotics = Obese
I Don't Know About You,
But I've Always Been
Pro-Biotic, Not Anti-Biotic
(Looking healthy because you are
healthy reflects preventionism.)
Fears grow as study shows genetically modified
crops 'can cause liver and kidney damage'
I Can Understand As to Tomato Sauce and
Ketchup, But The Kids Would Be Better
Off With a Tomato-Vegetable Soup
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
PRESCIENT
The employer who's a not-hung-up,
normal-as-he-should-be-sort
-of-guy / gal will
allow for this
for his / her employees, a throw-back
to what hopefully the Chinese
will not lose. That employer will benefit
financially, in the process, of course.
I love this vid, but as to the
justice part believe the access
to justice, the avenue to legal
recourse, is indispensable.
(Nothing from the following is to be used
as legal advice. Readers with potential
issues should act on independent advice.)
But judges and juries need being advised
of the difference between defensive
medicine and good-decision medicine,
as well as being reminded that mistakes
and accidents are not per se negligent
or sub-professional standard.
In cases of malpractice an Expert
Arbitrating Advisor should inform as
to the competing considerations.
It is often suggested that a loser-pay
all costs policy be adopted.
I accept that this simply
looks excessive. Such policy does not have to
be on an all or none basis.
Loser pays half the other party's
legal costs may be more sensible.
Volume of work - based compensation
is obviously not consistent
with good medical care delivery.
The HMO's to my mind remain a
useful vehicle for better aligning incentives
clinically and financially,
but they cannot achieve that
if they have to compete with an entrenched
fee - for - service cartel that is protected in its
cherry - picking of risk free customers.
This is already comparable to the public health
responsibility failures in the U.S. at the turn
of the last century, when
bone shavings were sold as coconut, etc.
Until It Realigns Its Priorities, The U.S. Will
Fall Further Behind Canada
First Ever Overruling of FDA by Cabinet:
Restricts Morning-After Pill Access
(ENEN: which should result in more
unwanted pregnancies)
"Should The FDA Be An Independent Agency?"
Krugman's Comment As To
Ryan's Health Plan
ORIGINAL
There are over-the-top obnoxious
people and murderers, but, particularly
some of the kids
placed on strong drugs should
have access to a case review process for
the purpose of possible weaning from
covered, unjustified drugging.
New Autism Diagnostic Symptom Mix In
The Works Just the same, see this.
Evidence Behind Autism
Drugs May Be Biased
Can Dogs Sniff Cancer?
(The question's hardly limited
to lung cancer, which would
make sense, since you're breathing
into your dog's face.
Let's try melanoma, which
is just skin deep.)
ORIGINAL
Principles Held In
Your Face But
Meaningless To The
Demagogues
Got pre-existing risk factor but
want to move to another state?
Currently, then, you might as well
be living in the old Soviet Union.
Particularly if you have an independent policy
you typically can’t move from one state
to another absent exclusions
with the current casino-and-cherry-picking-
shell-game system.
That’s obviously particularly important at
a time when people need to
relocate for employment opportunities.
SCHUMER AND LEAHY ARE
ATTEMPTING REMOVAL OF THE
HEALTH INSURANCE CARTEL'S
ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTION
(This is to inform: the health
insurance cartel
is still immune from the
anti-trust laws.)
Martin Feldstein on ObamaCare
As to rationing, I agree with Mark Haines,
when he said to Mr. Feldstein during a CNBC
on air interview "Isn't the current system
rationing?"
(an ENENcomment disagreeing with
Prof. Feldstein)
To me, people in high places
are usually exquisitely correct in
identifying problems but
easily disagreed with where
finding the pathology is concerned.
One can simply have
rationing by arrogance.
(graphic video)
(maybe should've come out
"A Few Doctor...")
"Doctors Say, Just Give Us
Government Money and Stop
Asking Questions"
(Baker, CEPR)
Walker / FDL / Eight Alternatives
to the Individual Mandate
Obamacare Judges' Financial Conflict
Smith / DailyBeast
Dean Baker, Co-director,
Center for Economic Policy Research
, by way of
from: FIREDOGLAKE.COM:
"Bowles and Simpson Violate
Commission Charter and the Washington
Post Covers Up"
Dec. 1, 2010
“... the huge long-term projected
deficits are entirely attributable to
the broken health care system.
If the United States paid the same
amount per person for health care
as countries with longer life
expectancies we would be facing
huge budget surpluses, not deficits....”
Meme Roth, National Action
Against Obesity:
"It's Not Insurance Where
It's Inevitable"
Wendell Potter on the Senate's
Health Care Delivery Law
vs.
the description by Senators Murray,
Schumer, Reid, Harkin
Debate Over Industry
Role in Educating Doctors
Natasha Singer, Duff Wilson,
New York Times, June 23, 2010
"In the latest effort to break up the
often cozy relationship between doctors
and the medical industry,
The University of Michigan Medical
School has become the first to decide
that it will no longer take any money
from drug and device makers to pay for
coursework doctors need to renew their
medical licenses...." "...Dr. Michael
Steinman, an associate professor of
medicine at the San Francisco
V.A. Medical Center,... who conducted
one of the studies, said that related
research in social science demonstrates
that people who receive gifts often feel
obliged to return the favor. 'Industry
wouldn’t be paying billions of dollars
to do this stuff if it
didn’t benefit them,' he said...."
Conservatives Are So Angry About
Healthcare Reform
They Have Been Reduced To Telling
Flat-Out LiesPaul Krugman,
New York Times, Mar. 27, 2010
(replies to this
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, NY Times)
All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal:
Examining The Minnesota Model
Courtney Burke, Lynn Blewett,
healthaffairs.org, March 19, 2010
eligibility is broader...; adequately funded...;
premiums are low...; ...administration....
The program is a not-for-profit corporation
governed by a board of directors and regulated
by the Minnesota Department of Commerce...
"COURAGE" Not Enough: A Million Stents A Year
Gary Schwitzer on February 11, 2010.
healthnewsreview.com,
Based On This,
by Keith J. Winstein, Wall Street Journal, A1, A18
"Sanjay Kaul, a prominent cardiologist and researcher
at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles,
estimates that the U.S. could save $5 billion of
the $15 billion it spends on stent procedures each year
if all doctors followed Courage's guidance--that is,
putting certain heart patients o
n generic drugs and turning to stents only
if the pains persists. ...
ATTEMPTING REMOVAL OF THE
HEALTH INSURANCE CARTEL'S
ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTION
(This is to inform: the health
insurance cartel
is still immune from the
anti-trust laws.)
Martin Feldstein on ObamaCare
As to rationing, I agree with Mark Haines,
when he said to Mr. Feldstein during a CNBC
on air interview "Isn't the current system
rationing?"
(an ENENcomment disagreeing with
Prof. Feldstein)
To me, people in high places
are usually exquisitely correct in
identifying problems but
easily disagreed with where
finding the pathology is concerned.
One can simply have
rationing by arrogance.
(graphic video)
(maybe should've come out
"A Few Doctor...")
"Doctors Say, Just Give Us
Government Money and Stop
Asking Questions"
(Baker, CEPR)
Walker / FDL / Eight Alternatives
to the Individual Mandate
Obamacare Judges' Financial Conflict
Smith / DailyBeast
Dean Baker, Co-director,
Center for Economic Policy Research
, by way of
from: FIREDOGLAKE.COM:
"Bowles and Simpson Violate
Commission Charter and the Washington
Post Covers Up"
Dec. 1, 2010
“... the huge long-term projected
deficits are entirely attributable to
the broken health care system.
If the United States paid the same
amount per person for health care
as countries with longer life
expectancies we would be facing
huge budget surpluses, not deficits....”
Meme Roth, National Action
Against Obesity:
"It's Not Insurance Where
It's Inevitable"
Wendell Potter on the Senate's
Health Care Delivery Law
vs.
the description by Senators Murray,
Schumer, Reid, Harkin
Debate Over Industry
Role in Educating Doctors
Natasha Singer, Duff Wilson,
New York Times, June 23, 2010
"In the latest effort to break up the
often cozy relationship between doctors
and the medical industry,
The University of Michigan Medical
School has become the first to decide
that it will no longer take any money
from drug and device makers to pay for
coursework doctors need to renew their
medical licenses...." "...Dr. Michael
Steinman, an associate professor of
medicine at the San Francisco
V.A. Medical Center,... who conducted
one of the studies, said that related
research in social science demonstrates
that people who receive gifts often feel
obliged to return the favor. 'Industry
wouldn’t be paying billions of dollars
to do this stuff if it
didn’t benefit them,' he said...."
Conservatives Are So Angry About
Healthcare Reform
They Have Been Reduced To Telling
Flat-Out LiesPaul Krugman,
New York Times, Mar. 27, 2010
(replies to this
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, NY Times)
All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal:
Examining The Minnesota Model
Courtney Burke, Lynn Blewett,
healthaffairs.org, March 19, 2010
eligibility is broader...; adequately funded...;
premiums are low...; ...administration....
The program is a not-for-profit corporation
governed by a board of directors and regulated
by the Minnesota Department of Commerce...
"COURAGE" Not Enough: A Million Stents A Year
Gary Schwitzer on February 11, 2010.
healthnewsreview.com,
Based On This,
by Keith J. Winstein, Wall Street Journal, A1, A18
"Sanjay Kaul, a prominent cardiologist and researcher
at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles,
estimates that the U.S. could save $5 billion of
the $15 billion it spends on stent procedures each year
if all doctors followed Courage's guidance--that is,
putting certain heart patients o
n generic drugs and turning to stents only
if the pains persists. ...
Only incentivizing health maintenance
marries capitalism with efficient public
health policy. Bacteria, degeneration,
genetic failures, and accidents do
not figure into "demand for service elasticities."
The public health sector lives between
selling candy bars and prison maintenance
in terms of its amenability to the intended
objectives and advantages of reliance on
the private sector.
SEE
What this study implies is that physicians have to
1) be more forthcoming as to why one may /
may not choose going down one path or another.
2) frankly, there’s a hint of physicians’ favoring
stop-gapping worst case scenarios in favor
of letting really distasteful, still quite nasty
results have substantial risks of occurring.
Though obviously a "reformer," I'm actually a
little more defensive of the physician's clinical
space in these areas. There's only one person
who can fix the underlying problem presenting.
Medical decision making is simply that: weighing
risk / benefit, with each side of that
equation having many degrees of depth.
There are many potentialities in each direction,
many extraneous indicators as to likelihoods,
and so the physician’s judgement is absolutely
essential to the right recipe.
Complicating all this:
A) Importantly, a prognosis can hinge partly on
what a patient knows.
A1) At the most vulnerable times in the
course of treatment, knowledge of dire risk
can impair the patient
who’s nervousness is itself a factor.
A2) The patient’s proportioning, reasoning, and
judgement can be off-base-unpredictable
for any of multiple reasons.
A3) There are few things uttered more frequently
in the hospital but that the uncooperative
patient is consistently clinically at risk.
But, so long as it doesn't make the patient
run out the door, give up, or go into a life-
threatening hyper-nervous state, I think
the more discussion and up-front explaining
of the what's and why's would in fact
make for greater cooperation.
NOW: Study Says, In a Nutshell,
Patient: Once a Regimen Adopted,
Be Cooperative Or Expect What
People Have Long Expected:
You're Outlook Is Dimmed.
It Also Says, Physician:
Explain Patiently.
Patients Can Require Patience
(More Fully)
So the bottom line is management of treatment
is still a captain of the ship affair, but,
nonetheless, this study implies physicians
should not compensate for corporatist
diagnostic time-allotments by simply quickly
going for the stopgap-the-worst-case-
scenario choice automatically.
Obviously, though, if you simply burn out
the doctor, the next patient will
really suffer for it.
I personally can’t imagine there ever being
a course decision - making process that will
be anything but hampered by being nervous,
rather than simply settling on the very
process: decision making.
Imagine if Capt.
Sullenberger got nervous.
I personally am an advocate
of Ta'i Ch'i.
It's our shared plight, the fact that
all of us will face overwhelming
inconvenience and risk of
impairment, and often face
some of life's most challenging
dilemmas, and need all manner
of support, which more than
anything else should help readers
care about reform.
The needs of health care
cannot wait long for people to
break free from demagoguery
and false blame.
The paucity of nursing and medical
social work services reflects a
cruel culture potentially, but it
really occurs from lack of
preventionism and morbidity
being addressed needlessly at
more expensive stages.
That paucity leaves the patient,
sorrowful for their misfortune,
and where the problem is major,
usually scared for the family
he/she is at risk of leaving behind,
that much more prone to a
clinical cascade, whereas emotional
support can dramatically help
that patient be a successful
one and go home whole again.
People's choices are more limited
when they arrive in clinic late,
and they understand that.
Their costs are shifted to
policy holders anyway.
The carriers nonetheless
enjoy their own, very specific,
pre-determined happy
risk-limited space.
The reason it's worse than
analogous to Jaws,
is although the late - arriving
patient in the defective,
dangerous system gets deathly
shafted in the manner of the swimmer
getting eaten by the big shark,
whereas the other swimmers
get away with a satisfying swim
and day at the beach, the patient
who does have coverage does
not have a happy experience.
That covered patient will sooner
or later face a choice of
"go naked" or "premium death
spiral" as soon as he / she is
in a policy cluster that's no
longer desirable for the carrier,
and, in any event, it's a
monopoly situation once the
patient presents (a) risk
factor(s,) and entirely a game
of name your price for the
carrier.
Gov Vid's on Asking Q's
(We really need to re-populate
an army of medical social workers.)
One more video on asking questions.
Sullenberger got nervous.
I personally am an advocate
of Ta'i Ch'i.
It's our shared plight, the fact that
all of us will face overwhelming
inconvenience and risk of
impairment, and often face
some of life's most challenging
dilemmas, and need all manner
of support, which more than
anything else should help readers
care about reform.
The needs of health care
cannot wait long for people to
break free from demagoguery
and false blame.
The paucity of nursing and medical
social work services reflects a
cruel culture potentially, but it
really occurs from lack of
preventionism and morbidity
being addressed needlessly at
more expensive stages.
That paucity leaves the patient,
sorrowful for their misfortune,
and where the problem is major,
usually scared for the family
he/she is at risk of leaving behind,
that much more prone to a
clinical cascade, whereas emotional
support can dramatically help
that patient be a successful
one and go home whole again.
People's choices are more limited
when they arrive in clinic late,
and they understand that.
Their costs are shifted to
policy holders anyway.
The carriers nonetheless
enjoy their own, very specific,
pre-determined happy
risk-limited space.
The reason it's worse than
analogous to Jaws,
is although the late - arriving
patient in the defective,
dangerous system gets deathly
shafted in the manner of the swimmer
getting eaten by the big shark,
whereas the other swimmers
get away with a satisfying swim
and day at the beach, the patient
who does have coverage does
not have a happy experience.
That covered patient will sooner
or later face a choice of
"go naked" or "premium death
spiral" as soon as he / she is
in a policy cluster that's no
longer desirable for the carrier,
and, in any event, it's a
monopoly situation once the
patient presents (a) risk
factor(s,) and entirely a game
of name your price for the
carrier.
Gov Vid's on Asking Q's
(We really need to re-populate
an army of medical social workers.)
One more video on asking questions.
This website proposes
removing the
heads I win, tails you lose
element from health care in a manner
entirely preserving of capitalist incentives
(Adam Smith envisioned something
very different from what demagogues
would lead you to believe.)
ACTUALLY, IT ESTABLISHES
CAPITALISM IN THE SECTOR,
AND, COULD PERHAPS BE
SEEN BY SOME AS THE LAST
STOP BEFORE REMOVING
GATEKEEPERS ALTOGETHER.
FAIRLY APPORTIONING RISK
AND INCENTIVIZING HEALTH
MAINTENANCE IN ACTUAL
INSURANCE PRACTICE CAN,
LIKELY, OBVIATE NEEDING
THAT LAST STEP.
HOWEVER, THAT ALTOGETHER
LIKELY WOULD REQUIRE NOT
ONLY THE FAIR APPORTIONING
OF RISK AS I PROPOSE, BUT
THE ENDING OF THE SECTOR'S
IMMUNITY FROM THE ANTI-
TRUST LAWS.
It does this by aligning risk
along a level playing field.
Risk = cost.
Modeling after the carbon tax,
today patient risk is readily
quantifiable, so a financial
patient population risk equalization
exchange is possible as has been
proposed for penalizing / rewarding
CO2 over - producers / CO2
emissions preventers.
It removes inefficiencies that happen
to get jackpot amplified by the particulars of the
medical care sector and that result when one
pretends Teddy Roosevelt never happened along
so as to bust up the "trusts, " though those things
in other sectors, such as banking, have been doing
quite a number on us of late.
Having had the ability to quantify per patient
risk for some time now (the cartel itself is
a specialist,) it's actually a simple thing going
FROM:
cost-shifting but plus national health
insurance for older persons, whom the cartel
doesn't want to cover but who they can no
longer afford even being covered by the
government if their own inefficiencies are to
continue, given the boomers' advancing years
-OR-
all of higher risk to the high risk exchanges
(taxpayer)
everyone else to the cartel,
they having an incentive, thus,
to see MORE volume
TO:
Incentivizing preventionism
applying costs savings directly
from eliminating the cost - plus
volume - based compenstation:
there's ample evidence,
a fuller hospital application
(nursing, attention to patient
needs thus making him / her more
compliant, particularly by way of medical
social workers) saves money in the
long run
It's preventionism that's by far most
important as new abilities will
swamp cheaper alternatives, and
simply addressing obesity particularly,
but also: smoking, car accidents, violence,
chemical assault, emotional assault, etc.
will offer some shelter from a coming
tsunami.
providing a rational, sensible structure
within which a process for covering indigents
can flourish by simply twisting a money
spigot a little to the left
getting patients into clinic
while they still have the best
set of choices one can want for
a given issue (the best choice is
staying healthy in the first place,
which is prevention, which means
being good to yourself)
ending the patient foreclosure
routine in the county courthouse
not ripping off a nation of patients
with one-sided contracting power
and ultimately telling many / most
of them they have a choice of
"go naked" or "premium death
spiral"
Comparing a tax with a risk is not
comparing apples with oranges,
cause a risk is as good as a tax.
Ask any actuary at your insurance
co. of your choosing.
Risk can simply be apportioned on
a patient populations' total risk
being compared with everyone
else's patient populations' total risks.
Then, like any other policy-nudged
equalization process, such as the
carbon tax, a carrier can pay into
a common pot, it can draw from it.
We may just want an impartial
person from the house to
spot check players' hands.
Elements (Deficiencies) of the
Present Health Care Market
Discussed Here Pertain Here
As Well, and Vice Versa.
There's a Greater Sum From
Viewing The Issue From
Different Angles.
To Immediately Know This
Is a Special Market Simply
Ask Yourself What's the
Price Demand Elasticity for
Bacteria's Decision to Infect
You, or For You To Decide To
Fall Down a Flight of Stairs?
My Idea
(link takes you back
upstairs a couple inches,)
thoroughly market based,
would concomitantly provide
many avenues for improvement
and new efficiencies, but
particularly if:
the statutory immunity from
the anti-trust laws enjoyed by
the health insurance cartel
were repealed.
IT'S ORIGINAL
(Dated mid-April, here,
though if placed a little more clearly
it likely would have enjoyed
a happier response.)
MORE
COMPARISONS
See (from Progressives,)
from "Can't Hold Tongues on
Obama Health Law
Immunity from Anti-Trust
eliminated, risk system - wide
adjusted, but with the market
essentially preserved, my plan
modeled after the carbon tax
(risk = cost) readily gobbles up
value based
(V-Bid)
insurance initiatives
in its still (and much more so than
currently) competitive architecture.
Here's An Interesting
Value-Based Insurance
Fast Track
removing the
heads I win, tails you lose
element from health care in a manner
entirely preserving of capitalist incentives
(Adam Smith envisioned something
very different from what demagogues
would lead you to believe.)
ACTUALLY, IT ESTABLISHES
CAPITALISM IN THE SECTOR,
AND, COULD PERHAPS BE
SEEN BY SOME AS THE LAST
STOP BEFORE REMOVING
GATEKEEPERS ALTOGETHER.
FAIRLY APPORTIONING RISK
AND INCENTIVIZING HEALTH
MAINTENANCE IN ACTUAL
INSURANCE PRACTICE CAN,
LIKELY, OBVIATE NEEDING
THAT LAST STEP.
HOWEVER, THAT ALTOGETHER
LIKELY WOULD REQUIRE NOT
ONLY THE FAIR APPORTIONING
OF RISK AS I PROPOSE, BUT
THE ENDING OF THE SECTOR'S
IMMUNITY FROM THE ANTI-
TRUST LAWS.
It does this by aligning risk
along a level playing field.
Risk = cost.
Modeling after the carbon tax,
today patient risk is readily
quantifiable, so a financial
patient population risk equalization
exchange is possible as has been
proposed for penalizing / rewarding
CO2 over - producers / CO2
emissions preventers.
It removes inefficiencies that happen
to get jackpot amplified by the particulars of the
medical care sector and that result when one
pretends Teddy Roosevelt never happened along
so as to bust up the "trusts, " though those things
in other sectors, such as banking, have been doing
quite a number on us of late.
Having had the ability to quantify per patient
risk for some time now (the cartel itself is
a specialist,) it's actually a simple thing going
FROM:
cost-shifting but plus national health
insurance for older persons, whom the cartel
doesn't want to cover but who they can no
longer afford even being covered by the
government if their own inefficiencies are to
continue, given the boomers' advancing years
-OR-
all of higher risk to the high risk exchanges
(taxpayer)
everyone else to the cartel,
they having an incentive, thus,
to see MORE volume
TO:
Incentivizing preventionism
applying costs savings directly
from eliminating the cost - plus
volume - based compenstation:
there's ample evidence,
a fuller hospital application
(nursing, attention to patient
needs thus making him / her more
compliant, particularly by way of medical
social workers) saves money in the
long run
It's preventionism that's by far most
important as new abilities will
swamp cheaper alternatives, and
simply addressing obesity particularly,
but also: smoking, car accidents, violence,
chemical assault, emotional assault, etc.
will offer some shelter from a coming
tsunami.
providing a rational, sensible structure
within which a process for covering indigents
can flourish by simply twisting a money
spigot a little to the left
getting patients into clinic
while they still have the best
set of choices one can want for
a given issue (the best choice is
staying healthy in the first place,
which is prevention, which means
being good to yourself)
ending the patient foreclosure
routine in the county courthouse
not ripping off a nation of patients
with one-sided contracting power
and ultimately telling many / most
of them they have a choice of
"go naked" or "premium death
spiral"
Comparing a tax with a risk is not
comparing apples with oranges,
cause a risk is as good as a tax.
Ask any actuary at your insurance
co. of your choosing.
Risk can simply be apportioned on
a patient populations' total risk
being compared with everyone
else's patient populations' total risks.
Then, like any other policy-nudged
equalization process, such as the
carbon tax, a carrier can pay into
a common pot, it can draw from it.
We may just want an impartial
person from the house to
spot check players' hands.
Elements (Deficiencies) of the
Present Health Care Market
Discussed Here Pertain Here
As Well, and Vice Versa.
There's a Greater Sum From
Viewing The Issue From
Different Angles.
To Immediately Know This
Is a Special Market Simply
Ask Yourself What's the
Price Demand Elasticity for
Bacteria's Decision to Infect
You, or For You To Decide To
Fall Down a Flight of Stairs?
My Idea
(link takes you back
upstairs a couple inches,)
thoroughly market based,
would concomitantly provide
many avenues for improvement
and new efficiencies, but
particularly if:
the statutory immunity from
the anti-trust laws enjoyed by
the health insurance cartel
were repealed.
IT'S ORIGINAL
(Dated mid-April, here,
though if placed a little more clearly
it likely would have enjoyed
a happier response.)
MORE
COMPARISONS
See (from Progressives,)
from "Can't Hold Tongues on
Obama Health Law
Immunity from Anti-Trust
eliminated, risk system - wide
adjusted, but with the market
essentially preserved, my plan
modeled after the carbon tax
(risk = cost) readily gobbles up
value based
(V-Bid)
insurance initiatives
in its still (and much more so than
currently) competitive architecture.
Here's An Interesting
Value-Based Insurance
Fast Track
Should Risk Be Apportioned Fairly,
And Should That System Be
The Same System Which, Across
The Board, Is The Vehicle For
Financial Assistance, Then, “Tiering,”
Or Provider Quality Layering, Can Be
Avoided With Assistance.
Absent Market Control, Insurance
Companies and Doctors
Can Grade Each Other.
Patients Can See The Grades.
After All, The Insurance Companies
Know All About Their Customers.
A Free Market System Is Supposedly
About Equal Information / No
Barriers To Entry.
Otherwise Comparing Suppliers
Is Like Comparing Apples With
Oranges.
I Still Favor It Even Though
It's Not Fully Attainable.
Fair Treatment Of Risk And
Not Having Monopolies
Achieves That Practical
Near-Fantasy.
If All Suppliers Were Identical
In All Respects, And If Buyers
Are Not Numerically Constrained
In Their Demand For Their
Product, It's Generally Theorized
No One Would Make A Profit.
That's A Little More Interesting
In Health Care Cause Unlike
Adara's Father, People Unable
To Afford Care Typically End
Up Getting It, Their Cost
Shifted.
I Personally Don't See
Unattainable Ideals As An
Emotional Hurdle And Think
Ending Market Controls,
Fair Treatment Of Risk, And
Guaranteeing Accessibility
Is Exciting Enough.
With The Internet Being About
"Disrupt, Disrupt," We're Already
Racing Toward Our Self-Professed
Near-Goal More Generally.
Heretofore The Insurance Cos.
Have Mainly Sought Avoiding
Risky Customers, Burning
Out The Risky Ones Already
Enrolled Where It's Been
Possible To Do That, And
Thoroughly Gatekeeping
The Physician's Actions.
Your Doctor Has A Co-Pilot!
Anyway, There Then Arises
The Rightful Goal Of Insurance
Companies Trying To Give
The Best Care To Customers Across
The Board At The Best Price.
This Is Not Financial Advice, Nor
Anything To Do With Forecasting.
However, Technologies Aiding
Physicians Across The Board,
Particularly Helping The
Non-Super-Specialist
Judge With Greater Information
The Prognosis Of His / Her Patient,
Such As This, Then Becomes
More Appreciated, And We Should
See Much More Of It.
Despite Presenting Risk
Equalization On My Own
Website, I'll Be Indicating
Why I Think, If You're A
Californian And Don't Expect
Risk Equalization To Be Offered
At The Polls Anytime Soon,
California OneCare Is Certainly
Better Than What Exists Now.
And I Would Prefer That To
ObamaCare Too.
ObamaCare Would Be Helped
By Ditching The Immunity
From The Anti-Trust Laws.
It Would Be Helped More
By Not Segregating Those
Less Able To Pay Or
Presenting Higher Risk,
But Then It Wouldn't Be
ObamaCare.
I'd Support Those Unable
To Pay, In The Unified Market,
Every Buyer Simply Counted In
The Risk Equalization System.
Equalization Payments Make
It Impossible For Carriers To
Attract Only Healthy People.
Credits Incentivize Inventing
Efficient Health Maintenance.
Medicare's A Sore Thumb, But
Carriers Already Contracting
Can Get Credits With Carriers/
Medicare Population Still
Otherwise Part Of The System.
What Exists Currently Is
Entirely National Health
Insurance Only For The
Elderly--Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Cost.
As Bad As The
Situation Is
There,
It's Much More
Complicated Here.
What Simplifies It
Here Somewhat, Though:
We All Need This.
(And, As I've Said Before,
From Where I Stand, The
Progressives Value Life More)
The Cost Of The Uninsured
Gets Shifted Anyway.
However, It's Already
Happening That Doctors
Are Fast Creating Efficient/
Clinically Effective Matches
With "Value-Based" Strategy.
Single-Payer Is Quality-Even
Mostly, At Least In France,
But, I Think Risk Equalization
Is A Strong Competitor In
The Field Of Avoiding Tiering,
So Long As All Population
Slices Drink From The Same
Well.
Thirdly, A Simple Risk-Equalized
System, With Immunity From
Anti-Trust Removed, Fully Allows
For All Carriers To Still Offer
Varied Co-Pays.
I Happen To Think The
High Power Clinic, Particularly,
Should Be Not Simply Protected,
But Empowered, And, In Fact,
They're The Ones Who Would
Make This Sort Of Risk-Fair,
Clinically-Sensible, Practice-
Rationalized System Work.
Single Payer Still Requires
A Cost Brake, Facilities Still
Need To Be Run, And There'd
Still Be A Role For Private
Insurance, So Admin. Savings
May Be Less Than Some
Might Think.
Frankly, We've Very Little
Experience With Risk
Equalization In The U.S.
Wait.
Actually, I Think We May
Have None. It Looks Like
We've Simply Kept
Marching Toward Monopoly.
That's Suicidal, Of Course.
Theoretically A Monopoly
Can Engage In Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing Only
To A Non-Kill Point, But,
Lately, That Does Not
Appear To Be The
General Practice.
And The Non-High Risk
Exchange Part Of
ObamaCare Appears Being
Essentially A Cost-Plus
Oriented Scheme.
That Would Be Open-Season
For Unnecessary Volume.
I Hope You Like Tests, Baby.
What's Better / Worse?
Allow Cherry-Picking &
Exclusions, But Don't
Guarantee A Profit
Above Medical Loss Ratio
--OR--
Say The Cartel Gets 15% or
20% Margin Above Cost,
(With What Kind Of Oversight
On The Cost Statement?)
And Then With An
Apparent Incentive To
Want More Volume?
Adara's Father Today.
You Tomorrow.
see this analogy
also, Adara's father
wanted to avoid this)
part of why he would
still have something
to worry about today
If The Monopolies Run
Sufficiently Far And Wide,
Don't Doubt It.
I Like Calling The
Would-Be Capitalists
Not-Capitalist At All.
Health Care's Sufficiently
Different That I'd Jump
For California OneCare
Absent Repairing The
Risk Control And Lack
Of Real Competition.
It Seems To Me Risk
Equalization, If It Can Be
Made To Work, Would
Minimize Tiering And Also
Be A Little Less Vulnerable
To Now-You-See-It-Now-
You-Don't Mechanisms.
------
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And, I'm Not A Fan Of
Mechanisms That Tend
To Gravitate Toward
Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Costs.
Unless We're Going To
Institute Ongoing
Windfall Profits Taxes.
To Its Credit, California
OneCare, Which I'm
Friendly To, Does Not
Privatize The Profits
and Socialize The Costs.
And Should That System Be
The Same System Which, Across
The Board, Is The Vehicle For
Financial Assistance, Then, “Tiering,”
Or Provider Quality Layering, Can Be
Avoided With Assistance.
Absent Market Control, Insurance
Companies and Doctors
Can Grade Each Other.
Patients Can See The Grades.
After All, The Insurance Companies
Know All About Their Customers.
A Free Market System Is Supposedly
About Equal Information / No
Barriers To Entry.
Otherwise Comparing Suppliers
Is Like Comparing Apples With
Oranges.
I Still Favor It Even Though
It's Not Fully Attainable.
Fair Treatment Of Risk And
Not Having Monopolies
Achieves That Practical
Near-Fantasy.
If All Suppliers Were Identical
In All Respects, And If Buyers
Are Not Numerically Constrained
In Their Demand For Their
Product, It's Generally Theorized
No One Would Make A Profit.
That's A Little More Interesting
In Health Care Cause Unlike
Adara's Father, People Unable
To Afford Care Typically End
Up Getting It, Their Cost
Shifted.
I Personally Don't See
Unattainable Ideals As An
Emotional Hurdle And Think
Ending Market Controls,
Fair Treatment Of Risk, And
Guaranteeing Accessibility
Is Exciting Enough.
With The Internet Being About
"Disrupt, Disrupt," We're Already
Racing Toward Our Self-Professed
Near-Goal More Generally.
Heretofore The Insurance Cos.
Have Mainly Sought Avoiding
Risky Customers, Burning
Out The Risky Ones Already
Enrolled Where It's Been
Possible To Do That, And
Thoroughly Gatekeeping
The Physician's Actions.
Your Doctor Has A Co-Pilot!
Anyway, There Then Arises
The Rightful Goal Of Insurance
Companies Trying To Give
The Best Care To Customers Across
The Board At The Best Price.
This Is Not Financial Advice, Nor
Anything To Do With Forecasting.
However, Technologies Aiding
Physicians Across The Board,
Particularly Helping The
Non-Super-Specialist
Judge With Greater Information
The Prognosis Of His / Her Patient,
Such As This, Then Becomes
More Appreciated, And We Should
See Much More Of It.
Despite Presenting Risk
Equalization On My Own
Website, I'll Be Indicating
Why I Think, If You're A
Californian And Don't Expect
Risk Equalization To Be Offered
At The Polls Anytime Soon,
California OneCare Is Certainly
Better Than What Exists Now.
And I Would Prefer That To
ObamaCare Too.
ObamaCare Would Be Helped
By Ditching The Immunity
From The Anti-Trust Laws.
It Would Be Helped More
By Not Segregating Those
Less Able To Pay Or
Presenting Higher Risk,
But Then It Wouldn't Be
ObamaCare.
I'd Support Those Unable
To Pay, In The Unified Market,
Every Buyer Simply Counted In
The Risk Equalization System.
Equalization Payments Make
It Impossible For Carriers To
Attract Only Healthy People.
Credits Incentivize Inventing
Efficient Health Maintenance.
Medicare's A Sore Thumb, But
Carriers Already Contracting
Can Get Credits With Carriers/
Medicare Population Still
Otherwise Part Of The System.
What Exists Currently Is
Entirely National Health
Insurance Only For The
Elderly--Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Cost.
As Bad As The
Situation Is
There,
It's Much More
Complicated Here.
What Simplifies It
Here Somewhat, Though:
We All Need This.
(And, As I've Said Before,
From Where I Stand, The
Progressives Value Life More)
The Cost Of The Uninsured
Gets Shifted Anyway.
However, It's Already
Happening That Doctors
Are Fast Creating Efficient/
Clinically Effective Matches
With "Value-Based" Strategy.
Single-Payer Is Quality-Even
Mostly, At Least In France,
But, I Think Risk Equalization
Is A Strong Competitor In
The Field Of Avoiding Tiering,
So Long As All Population
Slices Drink From The Same
Well.
Thirdly, A Simple Risk-Equalized
System, With Immunity From
Anti-Trust Removed, Fully Allows
For All Carriers To Still Offer
Varied Co-Pays.
I Happen To Think The
High Power Clinic, Particularly,
Should Be Not Simply Protected,
But Empowered, And, In Fact,
They're The Ones Who Would
Make This Sort Of Risk-Fair,
Clinically-Sensible, Practice-
Rationalized System Work.
Single Payer Still Requires
A Cost Brake, Facilities Still
Need To Be Run, And There'd
Still Be A Role For Private
Insurance, So Admin. Savings
May Be Less Than Some
Might Think.
Frankly, We've Very Little
Experience With Risk
Equalization In The U.S.
Wait.
Actually, I Think We May
Have None. It Looks Like
We've Simply Kept
Marching Toward Monopoly.
That's Suicidal, Of Course.
Theoretically A Monopoly
Can Engage In Discriminatory
Monopolistic Pricing Only
To A Non-Kill Point, But,
Lately, That Does Not
Appear To Be The
General Practice.
And The Non-High Risk
Exchange Part Of
ObamaCare Appears Being
Essentially A Cost-Plus
Oriented Scheme.
That Would Be Open-Season
For Unnecessary Volume.
I Hope You Like Tests, Baby.
What's Better / Worse?
Allow Cherry-Picking &
Exclusions, But Don't
Guarantee A Profit
Above Medical Loss Ratio
--OR--
Say The Cartel Gets 15% or
20% Margin Above Cost,
(With What Kind Of Oversight
On The Cost Statement?)
And Then With An
Apparent Incentive To
Want More Volume?
Adara's Father Today.
You Tomorrow.
see this analogy
also, Adara's father
wanted to avoid this)
part of why he would
still have something
to worry about today
If The Monopolies Run
Sufficiently Far And Wide,
Don't Doubt It.
I Like Calling The
Would-Be Capitalists
Not-Capitalist At All.
Health Care's Sufficiently
Different That I'd Jump
For California OneCare
Absent Repairing The
Risk Control And Lack
Of Real Competition.
It Seems To Me Risk
Equalization, If It Can Be
Made To Work, Would
Minimize Tiering And Also
Be A Little Less Vulnerable
To Now-You-See-It-Now-
You-Don't Mechanisms.
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And, I'm Not A Fan Of
Mechanisms That Tend
To Gravitate Toward
Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Costs.
Unless We're Going To
Institute Ongoing
Windfall Profits Taxes.
To Its Credit, California
OneCare, Which I'm
Friendly To, Does Not
Privatize The Profits
and Socialize The Costs.
Absent some kind of market
control, (otherwise) unfettered
supply, and unfettered demand,
combine to render the
theoretical, pure capitalist
economy a mathematical
absurdity.
Supply and demand would
always link at 0.
I think one could argue
they'd meet at what the
TBTF banks currently
have, with their near-
free reserves: a rate of
return just below something
reflecting a worthwhile
investment.
I think it says much that
they "enjoy" their position,
and cling to it, even though
it's a statement of failure.
I see that as no emotional
hurdle. I don't get busted
up over it. I still run to the
near-fantasy of mostly-capitalist,
personally, but don't think people
should not be attacked with
charged labels if they're open
to rationalizing markets so
as to make our near-fantasy
work better.
Risk equalization, though, is
entirely about establishing a
capitalist market, as opposed to
an oligopolistic one,
for the first time.
It Just Says, We All
Get Sick, And Let The
Doctors Rationalize.
They'll Have To Do That
In ANY Plan That's
Fair, Efficient, Effective,
And Providing Universal
Access.
(That's Why Insurance
Cos. Themselves Have
Chief Medical Officers)
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Just Betw U And Me,
It's A Major Plus For Me
Simply Helping People See
The Basic Inequities And
Issues Involved.
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control, (otherwise) unfettered
supply, and unfettered demand,
combine to render the
theoretical, pure capitalist
economy a mathematical
absurdity.
Supply and demand would
always link at 0.
I think one could argue
they'd meet at what the
TBTF banks currently
have, with their near-
free reserves: a rate of
return just below something
reflecting a worthwhile
investment.
I think it says much that
they "enjoy" their position,
and cling to it, even though
it's a statement of failure.
I see that as no emotional
hurdle. I don't get busted
up over it. I still run to the
near-fantasy of mostly-capitalist,
personally, but don't think people
should not be attacked with
charged labels if they're open
to rationalizing markets so
as to make our near-fantasy
work better.
Risk equalization, though, is
entirely about establishing a
capitalist market, as opposed to
an oligopolistic one,
for the first time.
It Just Says, We All
Get Sick, And Let The
Doctors Rationalize.
They'll Have To Do That
In ANY Plan That's
Fair, Efficient, Effective,
And Providing Universal
Access.
(That's Why Insurance
Cos. Themselves Have
Chief Medical Officers)
-----
Just Betw U And Me,
It's A Major Plus For Me
Simply Helping People See
The Basic Inequities And
Issues Involved.
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The Patient With The Super-Doc
Who Can't Be Seen For A Number
Of Weeks May Do Well, Where
A Biopsy Is Obviously Indicated,
Even Essentially To The Layman,
By Seeing An Associated Health
Professional At An Earlier Stage.
That Means Even Rich People Can
Benefit From A System That
Maximizes The Application Of The
Highest Medical Attention Across
The Full Audience.
Nurses, Physicians Assistants And
FMG's In License Twilight Can Have
Relationships (Not Sexual) With
Multiple Physicians, With
Physician Leadership
(You Can Cure Yourself
Of Certain Vertigo)
This Entails No Physician-Patient
Disconnection. It Simply Cuts Time
Where It's Pre-Defined
Important Doing So.
Prevention Beats Cure.
Early Intervention Beats
Late Intervention.
As To Whether These Things
Involve "Net Rightshifting Of
Cost," Or Right- Shifting Altogether,
I Very Much Doubt The First,
Though That Is Not Settled, And
As To The Second, Someone Must
Be Confused. That's The Very
Purpose Of Medical Care.
The Reader Should Understand
Doctors Have To Invent
Every Detail.
Under Risk Equalization
The Same People Applying
Value Based Plans, Generally
Would Map Out Market
Position Strategies In
Relation To Risk Values
And Available Potential
Customers.
Risk Equalization Cost
Boundaries As To Cosmetic
Surgery, For Instance,
Should Be Particularly
Flexible In Terms Of What's
On Offer Vs. Alternate
Plans That Also Are Not
Simply Based On Avoiding
Or Financially Burning
Out Risky Customers.
pdf
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Shortfall Of Nursing
Faculty And The
Aging Of Americans
Addressed In UCLA
Initiative
Multiple Studies
More Registerd Nurses
Translates Into Financial
Savings Through Better
Outcomes
(pdf)
Telemedicine Is A
Massive Field, And
Providing Visual Contact.
Massively Helpful, But
There's Also, As Nurses
Comment, Potential
Over-Reliance On
Computers. So Smartly
Using Health Professionals
Should Ideally Be
Rationalized.
Who Can't Be Seen For A Number
Of Weeks May Do Well, Where
A Biopsy Is Obviously Indicated,
Even Essentially To The Layman,
By Seeing An Associated Health
Professional At An Earlier Stage.
That Means Even Rich People Can
Benefit From A System That
Maximizes The Application Of The
Highest Medical Attention Across
The Full Audience.
Nurses, Physicians Assistants And
FMG's In License Twilight Can Have
Relationships (Not Sexual) With
Multiple Physicians, With
Physician Leadership
(You Can Cure Yourself
Of Certain Vertigo)
This Entails No Physician-Patient
Disconnection. It Simply Cuts Time
Where It's Pre-Defined
Important Doing So.
Prevention Beats Cure.
Early Intervention Beats
Late Intervention.
As To Whether These Things
Involve "Net Rightshifting Of
Cost," Or Right- Shifting Altogether,
I Very Much Doubt The First,
Though That Is Not Settled, And
As To The Second, Someone Must
Be Confused. That's The Very
Purpose Of Medical Care.
The Reader Should Understand
Doctors Have To Invent
Every Detail.
Under Risk Equalization
The Same People Applying
Value Based Plans, Generally
Would Map Out Market
Position Strategies In
Relation To Risk Values
And Available Potential
Customers.
Risk Equalization Cost
Boundaries As To Cosmetic
Surgery, For Instance,
Should Be Particularly
Flexible In Terms Of What's
On Offer Vs. Alternate
Plans That Also Are Not
Simply Based On Avoiding
Or Financially Burning
Out Risky Customers.
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Shortfall Of Nursing
Faculty And The
Aging Of Americans
Addressed In UCLA
Initiative
Multiple Studies
More Registerd Nurses
Translates Into Financial
Savings Through Better
Outcomes
(pdf)
Telemedicine Is A
Massive Field, And
Providing Visual Contact.
Massively Helpful, But
There's Also, As Nurses
Comment, Potential
Over-Reliance On
Computers. So Smartly
Using Health Professionals
Should Ideally Be
Rationalized.
ObamaCare Replaces The
Shell Game, Including Its
Ultimate Choice For Many, "Go
Naked" Or "Premium
Death Spiral," With An 80/85%
MLR (Medical Loss Ratio--)
Profit Above That, The Border
Easily Gamed, I Would Think.
That's A Pro-Volume Formula
That Implies Some Doctors'
Practice Concerns May
Occassionally Be Ill-Placed.
However, The Insurers
Don't Really Like Eliminating
Exclusions And Will Likely
Continue Rolling Out
Just-Go-Away Deductibles.
Of Course, Just-Go-Away
Deductibles Are
Distinctly Un-Fun For
Physicians And Patients
Alike.
It's Eminently Within
The Realm Of Possibility
Than Occassionally Some
Doctors Will See Their
Practices Aligned With
Insurers' Interests.
Certainly In The Case
Of Just-Go-Away
Deductibles That Would
Be Like A Nat Gas
Royalty Holder Supporting
A Policy Of
Just-Store-It.
The High Risk Exchanges,
Taxpayer Subsidized, Will
Often Likely Follow
More Rational Formulae,
But With These Issues.
Doctors Should Love
Risk Equalization.
It's Utterly Unfettered
Practice Of Medicine.
It's Exactly The Opposite,
Which Is Analogous To
Using Any Gatekeeper
That's Always Requiring,
And In Health Care, More
Than In Other Places, Yet
Also More Inappropriately,
That's Always Interceding,
For The Doctor And Patient
To Remain Covered.
I Fell That With A Lavish
Physician - Carrier Market
And More Thorough Value
Basing and Physician-Created
Rationalization, Cost Can Be
Contained Appropriately With
None Of That; And, If That
Should Prove Insufficient, The
Natural Community Of
Interest Would Accomodate
Easily Agreed On Additional
Cost Control Guidance.
The Only Place Where
Gatekeeping Might
Reasonably Occur Is
In Cosmetic Treatment
Coverage.
Unlike ObamaCare, It's
Difficult Seeing Where
Tiering Might Become A
Major Issue. Such A
System As I Propose Is
Intrinsically A Pipeline For
Patient Financial Assistance.
I Currently Cannot Imagine
An Appropriate, Sensible
Cause For Patient
Displeasure With The
Type Of System I Propose.
Outcomes Are Intrinsically
Comparable, Allowing For
Patient Pool Variability
(Including Variations In
Challenge Presented,) And
Viewable Within A
"Lavish Market Between
Physicians And Carriers."
Patients Should Know
Trust And Have Little
Concern Beyond For
Getting Better.
ObamaCare Keeps A
Cartel In The Cash With
Its Monopolistic Control
Somewhat Obscured.
Like A Driver
Needing To Swerve To
Save His/Her Family
With Little Time To Think,
It Runs Over Those Least
Able To Afford Coverage
But Not Qualifiable For
Assistance.
The Carriers May Well
See Opportunities For
Gaming The Exchanges,
Including As To Quality.
My Plan, As I've Said,
Institutes Free Enterprise
For The First Time In
U.S. Health Care In The
Modern Era.
Again: Remember, All
Un-Reimbursed Cost Gets
Passed Through The
System In Any Event, Built
Into Everyone's Premium
(Cost Shifting,)
Just As Has Always
Been The Case.
And Again:
Because It's The Nature
Of This Field That All
Present And Future
Patients Present
Expensive Need That
Will Be Addressed By
Capable Physicians,
Single Payer Plans Can
Be, For The Uninitiated,
Surprisingly Similar In
Effect.
SEE
(Nothing Independently
Verified)
I, Of Course,
Simply Feel That Non-
Monopolistic Coverage,
Particularly When Single-
Payer Can Be More
Vulnerable To Tiering,
Is Something I Would
Want To Try Out.
To Immediately Know
That ObamaCare Isn't
The Reformer's Delight
Is Simply By Way Of
Recognizing That Those
Who In Public Life
Supported The Public
Option But Who Later
Proved That Support
Was False Nonetheless
Supported ObamaCare.
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Shell Game, Including Its
Ultimate Choice For Many, "Go
Naked" Or "Premium
Death Spiral," With An 80/85%
MLR (Medical Loss Ratio--)
Profit Above That, The Border
Easily Gamed, I Would Think.
That's A Pro-Volume Formula
That Implies Some Doctors'
Practice Concerns May
Occassionally Be Ill-Placed.
However, The Insurers
Don't Really Like Eliminating
Exclusions And Will Likely
Continue Rolling Out
Just-Go-Away Deductibles.
Of Course, Just-Go-Away
Deductibles Are
Distinctly Un-Fun For
Physicians And Patients
Alike.
It's Eminently Within
The Realm Of Possibility
Than Occassionally Some
Doctors Will See Their
Practices Aligned With
Insurers' Interests.
Certainly In The Case
Of Just-Go-Away
Deductibles That Would
Be Like A Nat Gas
Royalty Holder Supporting
A Policy Of
Just-Store-It.
The High Risk Exchanges,
Taxpayer Subsidized, Will
Often Likely Follow
More Rational Formulae,
But With These Issues.
Doctors Should Love
Risk Equalization.
It's Utterly Unfettered
Practice Of Medicine.
It's Exactly The Opposite,
Which Is Analogous To
Using Any Gatekeeper
That's Always Requiring,
And In Health Care, More
Than In Other Places, Yet
Also More Inappropriately,
That's Always Interceding,
For The Doctor And Patient
To Remain Covered.
I Fell That With A Lavish
Physician - Carrier Market
And More Thorough Value
Basing and Physician-Created
Rationalization, Cost Can Be
Contained Appropriately With
None Of That; And, If That
Should Prove Insufficient, The
Natural Community Of
Interest Would Accomodate
Easily Agreed On Additional
Cost Control Guidance.
The Only Place Where
Gatekeeping Might
Reasonably Occur Is
In Cosmetic Treatment
Coverage.
Unlike ObamaCare, It's
Difficult Seeing Where
Tiering Might Become A
Major Issue. Such A
System As I Propose Is
Intrinsically A Pipeline For
Patient Financial Assistance.
I Currently Cannot Imagine
An Appropriate, Sensible
Cause For Patient
Displeasure With The
Type Of System I Propose.
Outcomes Are Intrinsically
Comparable, Allowing For
Patient Pool Variability
(Including Variations In
Challenge Presented,) And
Viewable Within A
"Lavish Market Between
Physicians And Carriers."
Patients Should Know
Trust And Have Little
Concern Beyond For
Getting Better.
ObamaCare Keeps A
Cartel In The Cash With
Its Monopolistic Control
Somewhat Obscured.
Like A Driver
Needing To Swerve To
Save His/Her Family
With Little Time To Think,
It Runs Over Those Least
Able To Afford Coverage
But Not Qualifiable For
Assistance.
The Carriers May Well
See Opportunities For
Gaming The Exchanges,
Including As To Quality.
My Plan, As I've Said,
Institutes Free Enterprise
For The First Time In
U.S. Health Care In The
Modern Era.
Again: Remember, All
Un-Reimbursed Cost Gets
Passed Through The
System In Any Event, Built
Into Everyone's Premium
(Cost Shifting,)
Just As Has Always
Been The Case.
And Again:
Because It's The Nature
Of This Field That All
Present And Future
Patients Present
Expensive Need That
Will Be Addressed By
Capable Physicians,
Single Payer Plans Can
Be, For The Uninitiated,
Surprisingly Similar In
Effect.
SEE
(Nothing Independently
Verified)
I, Of Course,
Simply Feel That Non-
Monopolistic Coverage,
Particularly When Single-
Payer Can Be More
Vulnerable To Tiering,
Is Something I Would
Want To Try Out.
To Immediately Know
That ObamaCare Isn't
The Reformer's Delight
Is Simply By Way Of
Recognizing That Those
Who In Public Life
Supported The Public
Option But Who Later
Proved That Support
Was False Nonetheless
Supported ObamaCare.
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Patient Risk Values, State
Substance "Tolling," Both
For Health And Substance
Control Rationalization,
And Programs Such As
This Can All Share A
Single 2-Way System
Of Health Information
(Macro/Individual)
And Health Education
(Macro/Individual)
Reverse-Pyramided Down
Through Progressively
Smaller Population Segments,
Down To The Individual
Patient, And Back Up To The
Public Health Policy Makers,
Physicians, and Substance
Regulators.
Substance "Tolling," Both
For Health And Substance
Control Rationalization,
And Programs Such As
This Can All Share A
Single 2-Way System
Of Health Information
(Macro/Individual)
And Health Education
(Macro/Individual)
Reverse-Pyramided Down
Through Progressively
Smaller Population Segments,
Down To The Individual
Patient, And Back Up To The
Public Health Policy Makers,
Physicians, and Substance
Regulators.
NOTE: The Affordable Care Act DOES
Incorporate Value Based Insurance
Design, And Govt. Programs Have Much
Lower Admin. Cost Percentages Than Do
Private Ones.
Single Payer Eliminates
Gate Keeping, But My Proposal
Is Aimed At Retaining Competition
(Actually Starting It--What
Exists Now Is a Statutory Immunity
From The Anti-Trust Laws)
But I Still See That
Act As A Case Of Privatizing
the Cherry Picking, Socializing the Major
Cost--Everyone Has Major Risk Factors
Sooner Or Later, And That May Be
The Point Where The Cartel Prices You
Out And Everyone Else Takes Over
(Why? Because Then That Shafting
Creates A Greater Competitive
Posture For Expanding The
Customer Pool--)
And,
Again: The Law Has Multiple Cost-Plus
Points, Which I Regard As Easily
Abusable, Higher Volume-Encouraging,
And Thus Destined To Needlessly And / Or
Wrongly Force Those Who, As Is Everyone's
Eventuality, Suffer High Risk Factors To
Enter An Alternate System, Instead Of
Remaining In One Overall
Rational One.
The Medical Loss Ratio Being
Company-Wide, The Cartel Can
Still, Even After The 2014 Ban On
Exclusions, Price Out Risky
Customers.
There's A Parallel To The Taxpayer
Paying For Most The Cost On
The Part Of The Banks In
Mortgage "Loss Sharing"
Programs
It Even Looks Like A Parallel
Exists Pertaining Water Access
Management In My Local Region
On The One Point Of Customer-
Serving, Instead Of Profit-
Maximizing Structure, To The
Extent The Public Exchanges
Include Value-Based Design
And The Private Ones Don't,
The Public Ones Will Be
Superior And Will Feel That
Way To The Customers,
But The Cartel Gets To
Squeeze Out Onto The
Taxpayer Customers They
Can Still Price Out, Even If
The Remaining Low Risk Ones
Partake Of An Inefficient
Environment
My Plan Makes Provider Access
Utterly Equal Across The Whole
System As I Only Propose A
Risk Apportionment
Mechanism And, That Being
Entirely In Lieu Of The
Cost-Plus Basis, It Then
Encourages Preventionism,
Value-Basis, And Clinical
Rationalization
Aside From The "MLR" Being
Easily Gamed, Pricing Out
Risk Affords A More Competitive
Presentation To Healthier
Customers
My Plan Is Single-Tiered-RISK FAIR.
Obama's Is Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Costs.
As Indicated Elsewhere Here,
When Air Travel Made Passenger
Rail Unprofitable, Though It Was
Still Much Less Expensive, On A
Passenger-Mile Basis, Than
Car Travel, Generally,
(Though Lines Designed With
The Kiss Of Death Will Have
Few Riders,) That's When The
RR's Kept Freight, And the
U.S. Started Amtrak.
"...As Americans are required to pay
more to visit their clinicians and fill their
prescriptions, a growing body of evidence
demonstrates that increases in patient
cost sharing lead to decreases in the use
of both non-essential and essential care.
Studies show that when barriers to
high-value care are reduced, patient
compliance with recommended treatments
increases and potential cost savings result...."
(footnotes at source lead to...)
Chernew ME, Shah MR, Wegh A, Rosenberg SN,
Juster IA, Rosen AB, Sokol MC, Yu-Isenberg K,
Fendrick AM. Impact Of Decreasing Copayments
On Medication Adherence Within A Disease
Management Environment.
Health Affairs, 2008: 27; 103-112.3
Chernew ME, Juster IA, Shah M, Wegh A,
Rosenberg S, Rosen AB, Sokol MC, Yu-Isenberg K,
and Fendrick AM. Evidence That Value-Based
Insurance Can Be Effective.
Health Affairs, 2010: 29; 1-7.
Of course, once again, my plan,
ending the risk shell game,
preferably making the cartel become
a sector that IS competitive, exactly
as they purport is the case, which
is mostly not true as they all
pass on burdensome risk, that
all the while accusing others of
being not free commerce based,
compels the carriers to innovate
meaningfully, clinically, so as to
be competitive.
Barring ending the immunity
from the anti-trust laws, at least
simply making them accept more
risk or else pay into a risk
equalizer still induces preventionism
and long-term rationalization, ideal
for value - based initiatives.
That is, addressing patient cost
capably, instead of on a penny wise,
pound foolish basis, should be
more cost - effective in the same
manner by which it's better for the
farmer to buy the equipment he
needs to reach the good fruit high
on a tree rather than simply
pick the bad ones off the ground.
SEE
as to multi-functional
integration.
As To Nuanced Questions,
Starting With:
Covered At Work:
Not Far From Same Choices,
One Degree Removed; Also,
Especially Today, And For
Much Longer Periods,
Many Workers Are Left
Adrift, Fending For Themselves
As the health cartel is statutorily
immune from the anti-trust laws,
they’re gatekeepers of rational, fair
health coverage.
Where they enjoy cherry picking,
they’re simply limiters of that.
Where they enjoy simple cost-plus
with a license to price out costly
customers who make them less
competitive as to broadening their
base of risk-free customers,
they’re simply disinterested in that.
The utilities are obviously power source
gatekeepers; the Federal Reserve
is gatekeeper of savings rates, economic
pace of activity and the ability of
the mortgage clearing market to proceed.
There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise
but the hypocrites falsely calling
you socialist, something I hear
almost daily on financial cable TV.
Incorporate Value Based Insurance
Design, And Govt. Programs Have Much
Lower Admin. Cost Percentages Than Do
Private Ones.
Single Payer Eliminates
Gate Keeping, But My Proposal
Is Aimed At Retaining Competition
(Actually Starting It--What
Exists Now Is a Statutory Immunity
From The Anti-Trust Laws)
But I Still See That
Act As A Case Of Privatizing
the Cherry Picking, Socializing the Major
Cost--Everyone Has Major Risk Factors
Sooner Or Later, And That May Be
The Point Where The Cartel Prices You
Out And Everyone Else Takes Over
(Why? Because Then That Shafting
Creates A Greater Competitive
Posture For Expanding The
Customer Pool--)
And,
Again: The Law Has Multiple Cost-Plus
Points, Which I Regard As Easily
Abusable, Higher Volume-Encouraging,
And Thus Destined To Needlessly And / Or
Wrongly Force Those Who, As Is Everyone's
Eventuality, Suffer High Risk Factors To
Enter An Alternate System, Instead Of
Remaining In One Overall
Rational One.
The Medical Loss Ratio Being
Company-Wide, The Cartel Can
Still, Even After The 2014 Ban On
Exclusions, Price Out Risky
Customers.
There's A Parallel To The Taxpayer
Paying For Most The Cost On
The Part Of The Banks In
Mortgage "Loss Sharing"
Programs
It Even Looks Like A Parallel
Exists Pertaining Water Access
Management In My Local Region
On The One Point Of Customer-
Serving, Instead Of Profit-
Maximizing Structure, To The
Extent The Public Exchanges
Include Value-Based Design
And The Private Ones Don't,
The Public Ones Will Be
Superior And Will Feel That
Way To The Customers,
But The Cartel Gets To
Squeeze Out Onto The
Taxpayer Customers They
Can Still Price Out, Even If
The Remaining Low Risk Ones
Partake Of An Inefficient
Environment
My Plan Makes Provider Access
Utterly Equal Across The Whole
System As I Only Propose A
Risk Apportionment
Mechanism And, That Being
Entirely In Lieu Of The
Cost-Plus Basis, It Then
Encourages Preventionism,
Value-Basis, And Clinical
Rationalization
Aside From The "MLR" Being
Easily Gamed, Pricing Out
Risk Affords A More Competitive
Presentation To Healthier
Customers
My Plan Is Single-Tiered-RISK FAIR.
Obama's Is Privatizing The Profits,
Socializing The Costs.
As Indicated Elsewhere Here,
When Air Travel Made Passenger
Rail Unprofitable, Though It Was
Still Much Less Expensive, On A
Passenger-Mile Basis, Than
Car Travel, Generally,
(Though Lines Designed With
The Kiss Of Death Will Have
Few Riders,) That's When The
RR's Kept Freight, And the
U.S. Started Amtrak.
"...As Americans are required to pay
more to visit their clinicians and fill their
prescriptions, a growing body of evidence
demonstrates that increases in patient
cost sharing lead to decreases in the use
of both non-essential and essential care.
Studies show that when barriers to
high-value care are reduced, patient
compliance with recommended treatments
increases and potential cost savings result...."
(footnotes at source lead to...)
Chernew ME, Shah MR, Wegh A, Rosenberg SN,
Juster IA, Rosen AB, Sokol MC, Yu-Isenberg K,
Fendrick AM. Impact Of Decreasing Copayments
On Medication Adherence Within A Disease
Management Environment.
Health Affairs, 2008: 27; 103-112.3
Chernew ME, Juster IA, Shah M, Wegh A,
Rosenberg S, Rosen AB, Sokol MC, Yu-Isenberg K,
and Fendrick AM. Evidence That Value-Based
Insurance Can Be Effective.
Health Affairs, 2010: 29; 1-7.
Of course, once again, my plan,
ending the risk shell game,
preferably making the cartel become
a sector that IS competitive, exactly
as they purport is the case, which
is mostly not true as they all
pass on burdensome risk, that
all the while accusing others of
being not free commerce based,
compels the carriers to innovate
meaningfully, clinically, so as to
be competitive.
Barring ending the immunity
from the anti-trust laws, at least
simply making them accept more
risk or else pay into a risk
equalizer still induces preventionism
and long-term rationalization, ideal
for value - based initiatives.
That is, addressing patient cost
capably, instead of on a penny wise,
pound foolish basis, should be
more cost - effective in the same
manner by which it's better for the
farmer to buy the equipment he
needs to reach the good fruit high
on a tree rather than simply
pick the bad ones off the ground.
SEE
as to multi-functional
integration.
As To Nuanced Questions,
Starting With:
Covered At Work:
Not Far From Same Choices,
One Degree Removed; Also,
Especially Today, And For
Much Longer Periods,
Many Workers Are Left
Adrift, Fending For Themselves
As the health cartel is statutorily
immune from the anti-trust laws,
they’re gatekeepers of rational, fair
health coverage.
Where they enjoy cherry picking,
they’re simply limiters of that.
Where they enjoy simple cost-plus
with a license to price out costly
customers who make them less
competitive as to broadening their
base of risk-free customers,
they’re simply disinterested in that.
The utilities are obviously power source
gatekeepers; the Federal Reserve
is gatekeeper of savings rates, economic
pace of activity and the ability of
the mortgage clearing market to proceed.
There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise
but the hypocrites falsely calling
you socialist, something I hear
almost daily on financial cable TV.
THE WIDE WORLD OF EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS,
UNIVERSAL ACCESS, AND FAIRNESS EVERYWHERE
ELSE IN THE WIDE WORLD OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
AND NICE PEOPLE
see: Physicians for a
National Health Program
Not doing it this way means
poorer access for the privately
insured AND the publicly insured,
as the former deal with larger
and now very large--
as in,
JUST GO AWAY PLEASE
deductibles
(really rather silly-obvious,
too--more childish than
running a lemonade stand)
and the latter have too few providers,
but with their patients ending up
in the hospital with the privately
insured patients.
Each group statistically reflects
increasing unmet medical needs.
Distributing risk across everyone
on a market basis, then letting
the carriers compete on the basis
of preventionism rather than
being a cartel receiving cost-plus,
with high volume stupidly
incentivized, the would-be
public group is then the not-shafted
for-having-risk-factor group.
The rationalization (efficiency
from better market alignment with
the nature of clinical medicine)
and, also, I would recommend:
ending carrier immunity from the
anti-trust laws, would mean an
end to the very-large-as-in-just-
go-away-please deductibles.
SEE
ONE MORE
My Plan Should Also Remove
Trilogies Like This Affair:
1 2
3
(link pertained
analyst rating change)
4
(NOTE: these analyst views change)
Now Mayor Default
Judgement Has
Arrested Nurses
By
Rationalizing Risk Apportionment
and Also Making Deductibles
/ Co-Insurance Structure
"Value-Based" (See Below;)
Also, Because, It Provides
a Multi-Level (Value-Based,
Prevention-Supportive) Conduit
For Financial Support
Conceivably, There Would Still
Be A Small Role For Collections
Agents As They Would Then
Only Have Financially Highly
Capable Counter-Parties, But
Otherwise Chasing Down
People, None Of Whom Should
Care About Anything But
Getting Better, Would Be
a Thing of the Past.
My Plan Should:
End
Default
Judgements Against
Powerless People.
If You Want Fewer People Unable
To Afford Healthcare, Try
Education, Empowerment and
Family Support
THERE'S SOMETHING
PREPOSTEROUS
THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN
MEDICAL PRACTICE
That's essentially an 800 lb.
gorilla sitting in the doctor's
clinic. It's got its rear end on
his receptionist's scheduling screen.
It's really messing up your own
medical attention even as you can
barely afford it thanks to that
same gorilla.
My plan, with the players maintenance
based, with the immunity to the
anti-trust laws eliminated (Teddy
Roosevelt should count for something,
eh?) and with the plan garnished with
all manner of "rationalization" (once
the structure and process are
economically sensible you can trust
leaving that to the doctors--if you're
handing the job to someone else
you're in the wrong wing) such as
"V-Bid," eliminates that.
Applying indigent support across
the board becomes a piece of cake.
Competition being actually
created for the first time
meaningfully, particularly if
the immunity from the anti-trust
laws is repealed, capitation
need not be the only funding
basis.
I mainly only seek apportioning
risk fairly...
REMEMBER:
THIS IS SIMPLY REPLACING
FIRST THE CHERRY-PICKING AND
THE COMMON "GO NAKED" OR
"PREMIUM DEATH SPIRAL" CHOICE,
AND THE INABILITY OF MANY TO
EVEN MOVE ACROSS STATE LINES
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF JOB OR
R.E. OPPORTUNITIES, AND THEN
ALSO REPLACING THE CURRENT
REPLACEMENT OF PRIVATIZING
THE PROFITS AND SOCIALIZING
THE RISKS,
WITH:
FAIR TREATMENT OF RISK
(AND THUS COST) MODELED
ON THE CARBON TAX
A PARALLEL MAY ALSO BE
DRAWN WITH BRITAIN'S
RENEWABLES OBLIGATIONS
FUND MAINLY INSOFAR
AS THERE BUY-OUTS
ARE AVAILABLE WHERE
SUPPLIERS DO NOT HAVE
SUFFICIENT RENEWABLES
OBLIGATIONS CERTIFICATES
TO COVER THEIR OBLIGATIONS
HOWEVER, THE RISK
APPORTIONING PLAN I PROPOSE
IS A RISK-LEVELING PLAN WHOSE
CHARGING / CREDITING IS
POPULATION RISK-MEAN BASED.
THE POPULATION CAN BE
ANY SLICE OF THE PUBLIC
ONE CHOOSES TO MAKE IT,
INCLUDING THE FULL U.S.
THIS IS SIMPLY REPLACING
FIRST THE CHERRY-PICKING AND
THE COMMON "GO NAKED" OR
"PREMIUM DEATH SPIRAL" CHOICE,
AND THE INABILITY OF MANY TO
EVEN MOVE ACROSS STATE LINES
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF JOB OR
R.E. OPPORTUNITIES, AND THEN
ALSO REPLACING THE CURRENT
REPLACEMENT OF PRIVATIZING
THE PROFITS AND SOCIALIZING
THE RISKS,
WITH:
FAIR TREATMENT OF RISK
(AND THUS COST) MODELED
ON THE CARBON TAX
A PARALLEL MAY ALSO BE
DRAWN WITH BRITAIN'S
RENEWABLES OBLIGATIONS
FUND MAINLY INSOFAR
AS THERE BUY-OUTS
ARE AVAILABLE WHERE
SUPPLIERS DO NOT HAVE
SUFFICIENT RENEWABLES
OBLIGATIONS CERTIFICATES
TO COVER THEIR OBLIGATIONS
HOWEVER, THE RISK
APPORTIONING PLAN I PROPOSE
IS A RISK-LEVELING PLAN WHOSE
CHARGING / CREDITING IS
POPULATION RISK-MEAN BASED.
THE POPULATION CAN BE
ANY SLICE OF THE PUBLIC
ONE CHOOSES TO MAKE IT,
INCLUDING THE FULL U.S.
IT IS THIS PARTICULAR
SIMILARITY WITH BRITAIN'S
RENEWABLES OBLIGATIONS
CERTIFICATES PLAN THAT
DISTINGUISHES IT GENERALLY
FROM THE RISK EQUALIZATION
PLANS LONG USED IN EUROPE.
AS WITH THE FORMER, IT'S
A TWO-WAY STREET.
SUBSIDIES OUT.
EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS IN.
SEE
...and incentivizing
preventionism, clinically
rationalizing health maintenance,
and creating in this new
framework follow-on,
SIMILARITY WITH BRITAIN'S
RENEWABLES OBLIGATIONS
CERTIFICATES PLAN THAT
DISTINGUISHES IT GENERALLY
FROM THE RISK EQUALIZATION
PLANS LONG USED IN EUROPE.
AS WITH THE FORMER, IT'S
A TWO-WAY STREET.
SUBSIDIES OUT.
EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS IN.
SEE
...and incentivizing
preventionism, clinically
rationalizing health maintenance,
and creating in this new
framework follow-on,
IT-advantaged systems
integratable into very many
purposes, bi-directionally:
health education, community
health support opportunities
going to the customer base,
and group and individual
information going to the
health organizations and
care providers.
I Personally Don't
For A Minute Think
Persons With Bad Habits
Should In Any Case Be
Denied Care For Failures
in Health Education.
Innovative Approaches To
Clinically Pathological
Behavioral Choices Should
Be Studied
Absent the rationalizations I
offer I think then one has to
go with this.
The proposal for deflating the
criminal incentives in marijuana
distribution while providing for
new state revenue and controlled,
legal, limited access can be optionally
linked to the health information
systems envisioned here.
integratable into very many
purposes, bi-directionally:
health education, community
health support opportunities
going to the customer base,
and group and individual
information going to the
health organizations and
care providers.
I Personally Don't
For A Minute Think
Persons With Bad Habits
Should In Any Case Be
Denied Care For Failures
in Health Education.
Innovative Approaches To
Clinically Pathological
Behavioral Choices Should
Be Studied
Absent the rationalizations I
offer I think then one has to
go with this.
The proposal for deflating the
criminal incentives in marijuana
distribution while providing for
new state revenue and controlled,
legal, limited access can be optionally
linked to the health information
systems envisioned here.
Another Way To Understand Fair
Apportionment of Risk
is Imagining Fair Apportionment of
Opportunity. Imagine Adding In
Basketball a Pair of Baskets at
9 Ft. for Lay-Ups
Only, For Shorter Players
Apportionment of Risk
is Imagining Fair Apportionment of
Opportunity. Imagine Adding In
Basketball a Pair of Baskets at
9 Ft. for Lay-Ups
Only, For Shorter Players
The needs of health care cannot wait .....
Understand: the known risk
mal-distribution
and the fortune mal-distribution
reflecting the self-deception mimicing
the same types who bring you the
de facto banking Ponzi schemes
(While most connect economics
with the esoteric first through
gaming, and then finance, I
think encouraging self-deception
as to chance and co-opting
known risk in health care
should be of the greatest concern;
and, this is the annual increment to
the math of poor decision-making,
with multiple unnecessary
permanent disabilities for each
avoidable premature death
(or "considerate (@ 1:15 ") suicide
of despair.))
Possibilities, economically, begs
epistemology (what can we
know.) Our choices,
along "time," are mathematical.
One way of seeing a cartel
convincing people to ignore
"possibilities" is seeing the
commandeering of their future.
I wouldn't say slavery only
because the cartel is simply
taking advantage of the
naive support of others
for their ability to game
near-term known risk.
The questions of whether
we're talking about
insurance at all or whether
insurance in health care
warrants special policy
have to take into consideration
the known universal need,
and our value for each other.
From where I stand the
progressives are placing
a higher value on life.
Allowing people to think they
might care to buy coverage only
when they suddenly need it
is to encourage theft.
.....long for people to break free from false
blame defending demagoguery
and high principles held in your face
but not practiced by the demagogues.
This was their first secret.
(In health care the cartel is ripping
you off on apportionment of risk.
It's taking advantage of its own
better understanding of the
unforeseeable ("chance.")
That's related to "fat 'tails.'"
In health care, you don't want
to see that, because, this is the one
area where we all sooner or later need
expensive stuff.)
In other words, systems designed
to date, speaking very generally,
have expected you to be a sucker
as to known risk and / or to take
on, respecting your wide open
future (chance,)
and in health care this
entails far more uncertainty
(shorter term--longer term you
are in the hospital)
than does, say, the discussion as to
financial choices and possibilities,
the Ponzi-like mentality of
those bringing unsustainable risk
bubbles, the latter only so long
as you take the fall, the cartel
players don't.
Understand: the known risk
mal-distribution
and the fortune mal-distribution
reflecting the self-deception mimicing
the same types who bring you the
de facto banking Ponzi schemes
(While most connect economics
with the esoteric first through
gaming, and then finance, I
think encouraging self-deception
as to chance and co-opting
known risk in health care
should be of the greatest concern;
and, this is the annual increment to
the math of poor decision-making,
with multiple unnecessary
permanent disabilities for each
avoidable premature death
(or "considerate (@ 1:15 ") suicide
of despair.))
Possibilities, economically, begs
epistemology (what can we
know.) Our choices,
along "time," are mathematical.
One way of seeing a cartel
convincing people to ignore
"possibilities" is seeing the
commandeering of their future.
I wouldn't say slavery only
because the cartel is simply
taking advantage of the
naive support of others
for their ability to game
near-term known risk.
The questions of whether
we're talking about
insurance at all or whether
insurance in health care
warrants special policy
have to take into consideration
the known universal need,
and our value for each other.
From where I stand the
progressives are placing
a higher value on life.
Allowing people to think they
might care to buy coverage only
when they suddenly need it
is to encourage theft.
.....long for people to break free from false
blame defending demagoguery
and high principles held in your face
but not practiced by the demagogues.
This was their first secret.
(In health care the cartel is ripping
you off on apportionment of risk.
It's taking advantage of its own
better understanding of the
unforeseeable ("chance.")
That's related to "fat 'tails.'"
In health care, you don't want
to see that, because, this is the one
area where we all sooner or later need
expensive stuff.)
In other words, systems designed
to date, speaking very generally,
have expected you to be a sucker
as to known risk and / or to take
on, respecting your wide open
future (chance,)
and in health care this
entails far more uncertainty
(shorter term--longer term you
are in the hospital)
than does, say, the discussion as to
financial choices and possibilities,
the Ponzi-like mentality of
those bringing unsustainable risk
bubbles, the latter only so long
as you take the fall, the cartel
players don't.
"...Where choice (@ PNHP) really
matters to most people is in
choosing health care providers.
In France, where public financing
of health care is the rule, patients
actually have more choices among
doctors than do Americans, who must
choose among health care providers
preferred by their insurance
company...."
"... In Massachusetts, which has
had time to try out policies very
similar to those in the Affordable Care
Act, over 5 percent of
the population remains uninsured.
And, according to the doctors’
brief, local initiatives calling for
single-payer health care passed by
wide majorities in all the Massachusetts
districts where they were on the ballot.
Vermont has adopted a single-payer
health care plan, and the California
Assembly twice passed single-payer,
only to have it vetoed by the governor.
Single-payer health care, in short, is far
more popular than the political establishment
likes to admit—while requiring individuals
to purchase health coverage from private
insurance companies is wildly unpopular
across the political spectrum. According
to a recent poll, only a third of Americans
favor the individual mandate, but
70 percent favor expanding the existing
Medicaid program to cover more
low-income, uninsured adults...."
(@ ORIG.)
matters to most people is in
choosing health care providers.
In France, where public financing
of health care is the rule, patients
actually have more choices among
doctors than do Americans, who must
choose among health care providers
preferred by their insurance
company...."
"... In Massachusetts, which has
had time to try out policies very
similar to those in the Affordable Care
Act, over 5 percent of
the population remains uninsured.
And, according to the doctors’
brief, local initiatives calling for
single-payer health care passed by
wide majorities in all the Massachusetts
districts where they were on the ballot.
Vermont has adopted a single-payer
health care plan, and the California
Assembly twice passed single-payer,
only to have it vetoed by the governor.
Single-payer health care, in short, is far
more popular than the political establishment
likes to admit—while requiring individuals
to purchase health coverage from private
insurance companies is wildly unpopular
across the political spectrum. According
to a recent poll, only a third of Americans
favor the individual mandate, but
70 percent favor expanding the existing
Medicaid program to cover more
low-income, uninsured adults...."
(@ ORIG.)
Conrad Praises Baucus Bill Which
Contains Co-Ops He Proposed
After Meeting
With UnitedHealth Group
(not independently verified)
Baucus' chief staffer worked for
giant health insurer
(not independently verified)
Lieberman's
Baucus' Health Care Bill
--which received praise surprisingly
not independently verified
(Paul Drake was busy)
ditto this
Wendell Potter on the bill
others' views, factual assertions
not independently verified
decorum please!
Dr Mercedes Pascual of
The University of Michigan
talked about current
trends in infectious
diseases worldwide, and
noted how these must be
considered in terms of
climatic, evolutionary,
and socio-economic
change.
She referred to the size and frequency
of malaria epidemics, which have changed
dramatically over the past decade in highland
regions like in Kenya. Theories for these changes
include drug resistance, increased exposure
of non-immune populations, HIV/AIDS, land
use changes, and climate change—the latter
being “particularly controversial,” Dr Pascual said.
She listed five points of contention relating
to climate change:
- Is there evidence of significant trends
- in climate data?
- Do such trends result in a significant
- change in the disease itself?
- Do risk maps of suitability indices
- change over time?
- Is drug resistance a more important
- factor than climate change?
- Is climate variability—inter-annual rainfall
- variation—a major driver of disease dynamics?
(Kenya), Kabale (Uganda), Gikongoro (Rwanda),
and Muhanga (Burundi) indicating trends
of increasing temperatures between 1950 and 2000. Temperature rise appears to affect mosquito
populations, which in turn may correspond to
increased malaria cases.
Another study projected malaria infection
rates from 1980 to the present by examining
temperature change impacts on larvae life
cycles in relation to human infection cycles.
The study indicated increasing epidemics,
but the median projected infection rate relative
to temperature was smaller than actual
historical observations.
Temperature change could therefore
explain a “significant fraction” of malaria
increases in African highlands, but other factors
exist, according to Dr Pascual. Citing climate
change alone would be “unreasonable.” She
said drug resistance is often cited as an
alternative theory to climate change, but
interaction between the two might also
be possible. “If climate change is
changing the transmission intensity, then
this would also change the rate of evolution
in malaria,” she said.
Jane Hall / Dirty Air CostsDirty Air Costs
California Economy $28 Billion Annually
More Than 90 Percent of SoCal
Residents Breathe Air That
Threatens Health
(work of Jane V. Hall and Victor Brajer,
Calif.State Univ., Fullerton, Nov. 12, 2008)