many could argue for the "new" Heath care bill.
but don't they have to ignore histories lessons?
Canada has a great plan.... so does the UK... both have problems... the UK has limited coverage, and has wait times... (my mother in law waited seven years for a bypass... and never was treated for cancer)..
but what about our own experience or History?
what ever happened to one of our "model health care plan... TennCare?
but it was for the children.... how could they cut it?
ho well we still have liberal Massacres to learn from.
oh well history shows it is a great idea... but bad policy...
but don't they have to ignore histories lessons?
Canada has a great plan.... so does the UK... both have problems... the UK has limited coverage, and has wait times... (my mother in law waited seven years for a bypass... and never was treated for cancer)..
but what about our own experience or History?
what ever happened to one of our "model health care plan... TennCare?
Gov. Phil Bredesen, who had to choke down the excesses and bring the TennCare budget under control, recently warned that a national health-care plan could be the mother of all mandates for the states.
Gov. Ned McWherter initiated TennCare at a time when there was a national health-care plan being formulated by First Lady Hillary Clinton. But when the Clinton plan failed, it left Tennessee, and McWherter’s successors, to deal with a one-state public health insurance plan.
The first thing we discovered is that private insurance companies dumped the sickest among us onto the taxpayers. The “pool” of the chronically ill, with pre-existing medical conditions, were shifted from private plans to TennCare. The past practice of apportioning out the chronically ill among private insurers was scrapped. The chronically ill paid high premiums, but most were glad to get coverage of any kind.
We also discovered that many businesses stopped offering health insurance and threw their employees onto the TennCare rolls. In many cases, the businesses had no choice. If you operated a motel and offered health insurance for employees and the motel across the road had employees on TennCare, how are you supposed to compete? The state is also home to many small manufacturing plants who have wage scales so low even the working poor with children were eligible to sign up for TennCare. The rolls exploded and soon one in five Tennesseans were enrolled in TennCare. Over a million people on TennCare in a state of five million residents.
Businesses who have to answer to stockholders have to look at cutting costs. If the government taxes health-insurance benefits, as has been suggested, how long will most businesses continue to offer health insurance as a benefit? That shifts more Americans from private plans to a public plan.
We also discovered with TennCare that prescription drugs with no co-pay and no limit was a prescription for disaster. The per capita rate of prescriptions per patients was almost twice the national average. Reports of widespread prescription fraud angered the populace, reduced support for the plan, and enraged legislators. A special unit of the TBI was formed to investigate TennCare fraud.
There was anecdotal evidence of people moving to Tennessee from other states in order to get onto TennCare. There were reports of people in neighboring states driving to Tennessee for medical care and using box numbers to get prescription drugs. Throw in illegal aliens on TennCare and you had a recipe for public outrage and dwindling public support for the program.Celebrating its 50th year of statehood, Hawaii became the first in the nation to attempt universal health care. On June 30, 2007, Governor Linda Lingle signed legislation into effect called Keiki Care.hmmm, didn't work out well.. maybe Hawaii did better..
Yet there are problems with health care in Hawaii. One main problem is that the smaller islands don’t have adequate hospitals or doctors to meet the medical needs of their local communities. The biggest and most advanced hospitals are located on the biggest islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
Second, rising unemployment in Hawaii means that the number of people without health care coverage is also rising. This level of uninsured persons has been estimated at more than 10 percent of the population. And the numbers of persons who are not eligible for insurance under the Prepaid Health Care Act have risen as some employers prevent their part-time employees from working the requisite 20 hours per week.
Finally, there is growing evidence that many of Hawaii’s employers simply do not report people who work more than 20 hours per week.
Physicians are making an exodus from the practice of medicine, either by retiring or relocating to another state, as reimbursement rates for Medicare and other insurance companies have dropped so drastically that it is becoming nearly impossible to maintain a practice in Hawaii.
Governor Lingle cut funding for the plan after just seven months, because the state budget could not handle the strain of more families jumping from their private insurance to the free government health care.
Most affected were the smaller private insurers, left high and dry when families switched to the government plan.
but it was for the children.... how could they cut it?
ho well we still have liberal Massacres to learn from.
Massachusetts has done so, resulting in skyrocketing costs, and the “most expensive health insurance premiums in the country“
oh well history shows it is a great idea... but bad policy...