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Read my lips again, President Bush. If you honestly want to make health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans, as stated in the State of the Union address, quit playing shell games with Medicare.
It is appalling that the Bush administration has not taken steps to resolve Medicare’s flawed payment formula in the past seven years. Now to make matters worse, Bush is asking seniors and their doctors to fall for a reckless sleight-of-hand trick where both lose and the insurance companies still win.
The president claims he will approve a 10-percent payment increase for doctors, providing Medicare funding is cut for hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, ambulances, and home care agencies - all the health care services Medicare patients need. Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage insurance plans and Medicare HMOs are receiving double-digit, multimillion-dollar bonuses for brokering existing medical services.
Bush would rather
help health insurance companies increase their profits than ensure Medicare patients can get the health care they need and deserve.
If this administration honestly wants to improve patients’ access to health care, it needs to take the following steps:
Fix the broken Medicare funding formula NOW.
Develop a NEW payment system that ensures seniors get affordable, convenient, and high-quality care and pays doctors fairly.
Put Medicare patients’ health care needs before health insurance company profits.”
Dr. William W. Hinchey
Confused about life asked:
About a year ago, I was forced to drop out of college because I couldn’t handle the pressure of professors in my face pushing me to succeed and it was affecting my health. Senior design was especially bad, because they interfered too much in your life and tried to make us into overacheivers (the academic type). Since I had earned a BS in biology a year before this when I had the hope that I could perhaps work on biotechnology (which I find so fascinating), I decided to go back home and live and work on my family farm. That only requires 15 hours per week and because I had problems getting health insurance, I was able to by some miracle get an engineering-related position with some actual benefits. I loved this because I finally felt adequate compared to all of my former classmates, who now have awesome jobs because the school cared about them. However, the pay was just under half of what engineers make. They say it’s because I don’t have an engineering degree.
They expect me to work 40 hours per week. It doesn’t help that I’m upset that I wasn’t able to get an engineering degree. Any thoughts?
There is only one engineering college in the region, and they constantly say “teamwork, teamwork, teamwork”. They force you to be friends with everyone else, causing cliques to form. I actually qualified for the engineering honor society, but they did everything possible to stop me from initiation and succeeded. I actually like my new engineering job because everyone is older and no one is harassing me like many others in the engineering school constantly did. Autism (high-functioning) doesn’t help.