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Health reform to be big legislative issue
December 26, 2010 at 6:00 pm in INFORUM
North Dakota lawmakers face decision on who will operate health insurance exchange
The 2011 North Dakota Legislature will grapple with how to implement national health care reform in the state. Continue Reading
LOL, a prime example of having a privatized socialized medicine provider only causes more bureaucracy and larger government… to support a parasitic for profit industry.
Just bite the big one and have the government be the provider. Then no illness will go uncovered, and health care rates will go down.
Have the hospitals compete for the money, not submit for blank checks from insurance carriers. Let the government do the reasearch, not the pharmaceutical companies who price gouge with patents.
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You bet…let an organization that pays $800 for a hammer and can’t do cost effective mail delivery manage children’s cancer care.
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Mr. Viking, I must disagree with on your mail service. You get door to door delivery of mail six days a week. You can send a letter from Maine to California for 45 cents and it gets there in 3 days. You do not pay for the service if you do not use it. You do not pay for the mail delivered to your home. In other words, the service to you is free. How can you suggest that the service be more cost effective than free? Would you wish that they should pay you to receive your own mail? I believe if you refuse to install a mail box that you will not receive mail so you have a choice in the matter. That may be the solution to your problems.
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And it’s only 16 billion in the hole…amazing what some of you call “efficient”.
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Precisely, Abu! The post office was never meant to be a money maker! It is a service. The last time I sent a document by Fed Ex it was $14- would have been 44 cents via PO!!! Not to mention that no private deliverer would go to all these remote locations in ND six days a week either. Anyone that uses the PO as an example of something not needed or inefficient should consider these things…As for healthcare, it was given a huge shot in the arm by the bipartisan deficit Commission -http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/303377/
Makes sense!
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Sorry-posted the wrong article ! Here is the one about healthcare reform!http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_second_wind_for_health_care_reform
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Vertigo, for your information, the Fed. subsidizes the research for the Pharma industry. I may be wrongb but i think it is about 60%.
I agree that we should have a single payer, I am on Medicare, (age 78) (plus a supplement) through this program, the dr. and the Hospital gets reimbursed pretty darn well, contrary to what the ins co. alone pays. the ins cos. have too much overhead (profit) for us to continue this way.
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