Let’s Talk About Healthcare

August 15, 2009 in Church,Current Affairs with 2 Comments

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I wanna know what you, my friends, are thinking. Here’s if how I would like to structure it. Please follow the order given. You can even number your responses if you wish. Try to say what you need to say as concisely as you can.

1) Are you for or against the current idea of reform? Why or Why Not? What’s your motivation for your stance?

2) Facts only (please check your facts before you spread what you heard from a talking head or a forwarded email)

3) Do you believe that healthcare reform needs to happen, but just not like this. If so, what is your idea?

And two question that really concern me the most (well there are actually like four questions). It may not be in the format that is being batted around the USA today but, …

4) How would Jesus feel about our current healthcare situation, would he be for reform and what would he encourage us to do?

5) Has the church contributed to the degradation of the healthcare situation in America?

6) No ugliness. We are not bashing any group or person. Remember we are supposed to love and pray for even those people that we disagree with.

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  • Rick Yadon

    I support health care reform, but not the legislation Congress and Obama have proposed. There is very little “reform” in this legislation. This is why you see so many angry people at these town hall meetings. I’m especially disturbed by the vilification of health insurance companies by the Democrats. Either they don’t understand the economics of insurance or they are just pandering. I suspect it is the latter. If so, then we can forget about “reform” and see this for what it is — a liberal power grab for the federal government.

    Real health care reform must do the following:

    1) Change the financial incentives for health care providers from the quantity of procedures to the quality of the outcome. Giving more people health insurance does nothing to change this. Doing so will likely increase this problem!

    2) Place a greater emphasis on disease prevention (obesity, cancer, heart disease, etc….the so-called :”life-style” diseases)
    If we can stop health issues on the front end, where they are comparatively inexpensive, then we save money on the back end where the cost of treatment grows dramatically.

    These two issues are the major drivers of health care cost. Once they are tackled costs will come down, which will lower insurance premiums, and more people will be covered.

    However, “universal insurance” is only a solution if things stay the same. Even with “universal insurance” we’d have this debate again in 10 years because nothing will have been done to impact health care cost. If fact, if everyone is covered by insurance then health care costs will increase — supply and demand. .

  • http://www.williamguice.com William Guice

    Interestingly a number of people have emailed & facebooked me there thoughts instead of leaving them here as comments. So what I’m gonna do is work through all I’ve been sent & compiled on my own and post some thoughts tomorrow.

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Let’s Talk About Healthcare