Accessibility is fundamental research in the field of health care reform
While Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken the announcement of its universal health care for California last month, Blue Shield customers Don Lapin San Francisco has received an indication of the premium increase of 25 percent - at the beginning the past year, 30 per cent increase.
Bodaken HMOs and other leaders throughout the country are suddenly converted to universal health care, because they know skyrocketing costs in the long term, may not always result - a system of universal health care, with the government to enterprises , Which can not be circumvented.
“If we do not something in a darn hurry on the unversichert the entire health care system in this country collapse, and the government is in step,” warned Chuck Butler, a PC Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, in an article on December 7 at the New York Times.
The truth is that the solution will not work unless it deals with public opinion the main concerns - accessibility. This means that a hard look at exorbitant HMO-crime and drug company profits.
Since 1995, Lapin’s monthly premium has more than tripled. Like many of us, Lapin pay more for fewer benefits. Although good (it is on a swim team and is a ballroom dancer), it pays chiropraktische, 1983, accident bike most of their own pockets because the borders of Blue Shield 12 visits per year at maximum benefit $ 25 per visit.
Lapin is relatively autonomous and happiness on the conditions of services - a condition, it does not always more people, especially retirees in the past. A report published last month by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park found that a third of large employers in the country will soon file the health benefits for new retirees, most will probably not be able to provide coverage until that they qualify for sickness
Senior supported because the worst insurance price increases.
The answer to our crisis lies not just with the creation of a product that everybody needs to buy. We need to reformulate health care, services for all, they need space and cost-effectiveness requirements of each player.
News reports have shown, yet another possibility that the State HMOs are more and more fat in public office. Kaiser, Health Net, California doctors, Aetna and Blue Cross stand at over $ 2.2 billion in liquid reserves, known as the “real net equity”, while the premium increases.
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