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In 2008, 6.5 percent of the U.S. population failed to obtain needed medical care due to cost at some time during the year.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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August 13, 2009
For 2009, there are a reported 1,544 pharmaceutical and health products company lobbyists.
Source: Center for Responsive Politics
August 12, 2009
The Federal Employee Health Benefits program, which contracts with 111 health plans and offers 269 health plan options, covers approximately 8 million federal employees, retirees and their dependents.
Source: Office of Personnel Management
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August 11, 2009
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and the disabled, covers 46 million Americans. Medicare spending totaled $455 billion in 2008.
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But yet the government limits the pay of procedures to doctors.. which ends up being paid by everyone else. Or doctors will not take medicare or medicaid patients.
ReplyDeleteWhich is really stupid if you think about it.. when you reach a certain age.. you are forced.. yes forced to take medicare.. Now you can carry other insurance along with it.. but you have to take medicare and it becomes the primary. I have never understood this!
You know, the more I think about it, the government would be better off if they made it mandatory to provide preventative medicine to everyone. If people could get care ahead of time, to prevent the very thing that built up to become something that cost way to much to take care of in the end, then we would all be better off. But if we can't get the care, because of lack of funds, it then turns into something much more major than it should have. Therefore, costing everybody more than it should have when we could have prevented it in the first place!
ReplyDeleteThat's either a bunch of double talk or a Catch 22! Now I am even confusing myself!