Where the Uninsured Are

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/health/millions-of-poor-are-left-uncovered-by-health-law.html?_r=0



http://www.medicaid.gov/AffordableC...edicaid-and-CHIP-Eligibility-Levels-Table.pdf

 

Need more guns.

 

In your case, a higher IQ might come in handy.

 

You mean to tell me this big expansive government program to provide both access and affordability does not provide access or affordability? I'm shocked.

 

This should definitely be considered for the most irrelevant post of the day award.

You have any relation to Piss Morgan?

 

Obamacare was written by Medical Cartel lobbyists. It's no surprise that most of the money put into the program will go to Big Pharma or that it somehow missed covering the poor. A cartel gives a rats' ass about the poor? LOL

Poor blacks are the Palestinians of America; They get a lot of attention but nobody actually gives a s%&t about them. Now the Democratz can use those pawns to expand government even further and get out the anti-whitey votes. Goddam democratz need that black vote like a crack whore needs rocks. Without the black vote democratz would be off the back edge of the political world and good riddance. What a bunch of krappy little minions of the Medical Cartel they are!

 

Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem to enjoy better health outcomes.
The United States should follow the lead of those countries, the critics say, and adopt a government-run, national health care system. However, a closer look shows that nearly all health care systems worldwide are wrestling with
problems of rising costs and lack of access to care. There is no single international model for national health care, of course. Countries vary
dramatically in the degree of central control, regulation, and cost sharing they impose, and in the role of private insurance. Still, overall trends from nation-
al health care systems around the world suggest
the following:
•
Health insurance does not mean universal access to health care. In practice, many countries promise universal coverage but ration care or have long waiting lists for treatment.
•
Rising health care costs are not a uniquely American phenomenon. Although other countries spend considerably less than the United States on health care, both as a percentage of GDP and per capita, costs are rising almost everywhere, leading to budget deficits, tax increases, and benefit reductions.
•
In countries weighted heavily toward government control, people are most likely to face waiting lists, rationing, restrictions on physician choice, and other obstacles to care.
•
Countries with more effective national health care systems are successful to the degree that they incorporate market mechanisms such as competition, cost sharing, market prices, and consumer choice, and eschew centralized government control. Although no country with a national health care system is contemplating abandoning universal coverage, the broad and growing trend is
to move away from centralized government control and to introduce more market-oriented features.
The answer then to America’s health care problems lies not in heading down the road to national health care but in learning from the experiences of other countries, which demonstrate the failure of centralized command and
control and the benefits of increasing consumer incentives and choice...

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-613.pdf

I plan to read the rest of it later tonight.

 

Excluding references this is only a 35 page document. I believe it's dated 2008 so it's not particularly out of date as far as the statistics go.

If you're interested in a factual apples to apples comparison of our health care system compared to primarily the ones in Europe. (Prior to Obamacare) You're bound to find it interesting.




Disclaimer:

Obama lovers, brain dead liberals and pro big government types. Read the above document at your own peril. Fact based studies like these have been known to cause heads to explode.