Health Care Explained On The Back Of A Napkin (SLIDESHOW)

There is another option that is not on the table... an options that somehow people can't even see.

Get rid of so called "insurance".

You see it's isn't really insurance. The insurance companies have us a duped b/c they've manged to mix health insurance in with pre-payment plans. And that is the heart of the problem. Let me pay my doctor
for service rendered. Period. But right now I can;t do that, b/c a non-insured patient is charge 10x what an insured patient is. These prices are so high so to give provides room to negotiate with insurance companies. Insurance companies claim they drive proves down through negotiation, but it is just the opposite, b/c the providers have already jacked them up before hand. Thus the non-insured can't afford just to go to the doctor anymore.

So the solution is simple. Simply pass a law that requires providers to charge the same rate to all their payers, whether individual or insurance company. That's it. Do that and all our issues will vanish.

I'm not sure I understand....

Why should normal citizens be afraid of Socialized Medicine? It'll only affect the insurers, won't it?

I didn't see him describe the fact that while there will be taxes in one form or another to pay for a public option, that public option will create competition and bring down the cost of EVERYONE elses' insurance or otherwise make their insurance more attractive than the public option.

I like how he separated the problem into essentially, access and providers. Getting medical costs, (of providers of medicine) manageable is a separate pill to swallow.

What a clever medium! The explanation was a little TOO basic at some points, but I would have no problem recommending it as a primer for those who have a very limited understanding of the various legislative proposals. Unfortunately, the harpies descending on the town meetings haven't the slightest interest in understanding the proposals. They are in a state of near-constant orgasm at the thought of defending themselves from the government's attempts to deprive them of their civil liberties. For its part, "The Government" would prefer that these people crawl back under the rocks, bridges, etc from whence they came.

That was a nice explanation. Too bad no one will discuss the "freedom" option where we might get a little competition going again...there's the real way to lower it all and avoid paying more.

easy, and surprisingly fun to follow. i need to look into the issue of co-op/exchanges though..cause ive got no clue ..unfoundedly sounds like a way to strangle those with pre-existings. page 46 was way over my head too. efficiency in the provider end sounds like the meat of proposal for me. wish we could evaluate the impacts or extend projection results to the options. that would probably quell alotta the contention in the debates. the second-less restrictive option could level the most broadened evaluation of the cost issues amongst providers, before next phasing. im wishing really hard that the provider job market can boom - cause more hands make workloads lighter and arguably more efficient. maybe in place of the gov insurance, they could make the education fields on the provider side drastically cheaper to compensate?

that put a new fold in my brain muscle !

Wow this was brill - I had no clue what was going on before this, and now it's a little clearer =)

Yay napkins!

~The government is already bankrupt, or hadn't you noticed?
~Because the Fed printed more money and "lent" it the treasury, you think we are not more in debt?
~So let's take on more debt to pay for health care that we already can't pay for, because why?......Oh yeah, we're bankrupt, that's why.

Can someone explain how health care costs are already bankrupting us? More specifically, how can health care costs bankrupt the government when as far as I know the government currently spends $0 on health care?

that actually did help

Na... that's normal paranoia everyone in the galaxy gets that :)

is it getting that bad or i can only assume its a joke

Makes it all make sense