Experts Analyze Pros And Cons Of Health Care Reform

By Marianna Levyash - Talk Radio News Service

Sara Collins of the Commonwealth Fund and Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation shared their differences over the costs and benefits of health care reform during a briefing held Friday at the Alliance for Health Reform headquarters in Washington, D.C..

The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study on how effective the system reform provisions are in the House and Senate bills. They found that both bills are practical and contain key provisions that target cost and quality.

“Both bills substantially expand coverage to 94-96% of people...the major effect is on the uninsured,” said Collins.

Butler disagreed, arguing that both bills will create “troubling areas of affordability in legislation.” Specifically, Butler expressed disapproval over proposals involving higher taxes and employee insurance mandates.

“We will soon see pressures to afford other things in our economy,” said Butler. “The cost is squeezing out funds to have for our education and other goals that we have in our society.”

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[Sue]

I simply don't understand. In economic turmoil we need to conserve. We also need daring ingenuity to explore options and alternatives creating new practices is encouraged within reason. Identification of assets and the abundance thereof need be carefully determined and quantified so as to measure all resources. To evaluate effectiveness of a policy is in the concurrent monitoring of the process and the effects it has on resources outgoing and incoming. Evaluate and reevaluate. Revise and implement changes to achieve the desired outcome.

Healthcare reform. Radical change in determining health care in all aspects of health care delivery. The changes will come down to the actual time a person is under care. So subjective and unquantifiable is the proposed plan. To what measures the outcome and what outcome is expected and how is that determined acceptable or unacceptable. That value system needs to be determined. Shift will be to manage the prevention of complications by eliminating risk factors. The bill actually mandates financial sanctions against providers whose patients experience treatment related complications.

Resorces. Medical insurance is a product bought and sold like any other product or service. People buy insurance. Insurance is a method of paying medical costs. Insurance and reimbursement for medical services has gotten so convoluted that cost of service varies from person to person based on the availability of or lack of benefits. Medical treatment is not simply provided, it costs money period. To have insurance is to pay for insurance. Insurance is now going to be provided for or available to people, without increasing the amount of money spent. Actually the cost of care is to decrease over all.

HOW DO YOU FIGURE. Rethoric of failure.
lETS LOOK AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AS A HISTORICAL REFERENCE. A multitude of people came to hear Jesus spread his message. There were but a few fish and little bread and next to no wine. Like being able to feed but one family in a neighborhood. God blessed the food and wine and made enough for everyone. Now why would God do such a thing? Because he could!!!!
WE CANT!

THIS Proposal IS ABSOLUTELY FRIGHENING. IN AND OF ITSELF THIS HEALTH CARE REFORM PROPOSITION COULD DRIVE THE COUNTRY INTO A FINANCIAL CRISIS....BUT WE ARE ALREADY IN AN ECONOMIC CRISIS THAT IS WORSENING. 2+2 is 4 not 16.

No, no, no...please make some sense!!!! It's not time to play dressup Mr. Obama....