Riiiiiiight. The market has worked everywhere else it has been tried. And government command and control has FAILED miserably every it has been tried, from the Soviet economy to the US energy regulation crisis in the 70s. But nooooo, our elected representatives tell us the market will not create healthcare goods and services that will satisfy us, and that we need them, our wise overlords, to regulate everything and make us happy.
Wake up people.
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Right to Work President Mark Mix appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss several forced unionism provisions hidden within the healthcare bills.
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Phil the engineer proposes his simple solution for universal healthcare.
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ILR’s Assistant Professor Rebecca Givan discusses reform and the workplace.
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Goldwater Institute board chairman Tom Patterson appeared live on Channel 3 to talk about why President Obama’s healthcare plan will actually make healthcare in the United States worse.
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Infectious diseases are transmitted from human to human primarily by three routes: (1) direct contact with an infected patients blood or secretions or a contaminated surface; (2) transmission via large droplets; or (3) transmission via small droplets (aerosolization or airborne). With most respiratory pathogens, including influenza, the relative contribution of each of these types of transmission has not been adequately studied. This paucity of definitive data on influenza transmission is a critical gap in the knowledge base needed to develop and implement effective prevention strategies. Without knowing the contributions of each of the possible route(s) of transmission, all routes must be considered probable and consequential, and the resources needed for prevention and control strategies cannot be rationally focused to maximize preparedness efforts. Although it has been 70 years since the influenza A virus was discovered and despite the recognition that it can cause yearly epidemics worldwide resulting in severe illness and death, little is known about the mechanisms by which influenza A is transmitted or its viability and infectivity outside the host. Debate continues about whether influenza transmission is primarily via the airborne or droplet routes and the extent of the contribution of the contact route (including contact with blood, fecal matter, or contaminated surfaces). Unfortunately, many healthcare employers and state and local health departments ignore the US Institute Of Medicine IOM) recommendation and growing scientific evidence of airborne transmission of flu (including the H1N1 flu) because they view the needed changes to infection control procedures too burdensome For more on the transmission of flu in the healthcare setting, go to the IOM 2008 report at http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11980&page=47 . This is clipped from the 11 minutes video, Personal Protection Against Infection, from the nonprofit Ontario Safety Association for Community and Healthcare and available for purchase at http://www.osach.ca/products/catalog/Infection.html#vinfe344 .
This video covers the basics of infection control for health care support staff, from modes of transmission to hand washing to the use of personal protective equipment.
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My professor today mentioned that most European countries have universal healthcare. This means that everyones healthcare is provided by the state, correct? How much more money do people pay in taxes in Europe than in the U.S.? It would have to be more since their healthcare is covered, right?
I am English and now live in California. Like most people I thought that there was a huge tax burden in Britain, but after coming here I now think that’s not the case.We pay two forms of tax from our wages:Income tax and National insurance. Your income tax is tax like everywhere else, national insurance pays for your pension and healthcare. I have lived in England all my life up till now and I will fiercely defend our healthcare system, the NHS (national health service). In thanks largely to the effort of our heroic doctors and nurses (and all other staff) the NHS survives….the healthcare is nothing like as bad as people make out, and there are no long waiting lists anymore (now if you’re waiting more than six months for routine surgery they’ll send you abroad to have it done, paid for of course). No-one pays anything for medical care and the one reason it’s under stress (As a healthcare proffesional I know this from experience) is the fact that something built as a national health service is used as a world health service. People come to the UK from all over Europe to take advantage of the NHS and from all over the world. I would like to see treatment restricted to citizens/people who have paid at least 5 years national insurance contributions but at the same time I would never ever want to see anyone, citizen or not, turned away or denied medical care because of money. I’m fortunate enough to be able to afford health insurance in the US but the amount hospitals/doctors charge is disgusting and I don’t really understand why people are so opposed to universal health care, can you really put a price on life?
By the way income tax is 20% of anything you earn over about 5 and a half thouse pounds ($11k) and national insurance is 11% of anything you earn over 84pounds a week ($160) And people have the option of private healthcare in england too if they want to pay for it
Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market?
ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of course, more taxes to pay for it all.
The alternative is to base reforms on what works in the other five-sixths of the U.S. economy, where choice and competition increase quality and drive down prices over time.
Can a market-based health care system work? We can begin to answer this question by looking at Lasik, a medical procedure that’s not covered by health insurance. And has gotten better—and cheaper—over time.
“How to Fix Health Care” proposes three simple reforms that will put us on a path to a health-care system that’s better, more affordable, and more accessible. And get this—these market-based reforms can be implemented without creating new government programs or raising taxes.
Approximately 8.30 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Meredith Bragg. Hosted by Nick Gillespie.
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Friendly discussion of Obama Care in the cafeteria.