About Lymphoma > Regarding Health Care Reform
Last update: 08/28/2009
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We ask that our representatives work in a cooperative
manner so that cancer patients, and individuals facing other serious
medical conditions, can receive high-quality care they urgently need
in a timely manner ... today and in future.
There's an urgent need to establish facts about the healthcare
system and shared objectives, and to condemn the strategic dissemination
of misinformation.
~ KarlS
Reform Proposals and Objectives
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Ground rules for
constructive debate
Yes
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No
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| Define terms |
Slogans |
| Cite references to study data |
Opinion based on opinion of
others |
| Write letters, raise hand |
Shout down speakers |
| Respect and address opposing
opinion |
Demonize opposing persons and
opinions |
| Read background: drafts,
proposals and expert perspectives (verify facts) |
Rely on interpretations of
others
(without verifying facts) |
| Risk/benefit analysis (trade
offs) |
Focus exclusive to risks (black
and white) |
| Non-expert: focus on questions |
Non-expert: focus on judgment |
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Scare-tactics, distortions, and
falsehoods |
Confronting Scare Tactics and Misinformation
What's at stake is too important to patients to tolerate
disruptive practices and the dissemination of misinformation.
~ KarlS
| Health Insurance Reform - FACT CHECK whitehouse.gov
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AARP On Health Care Scare Tactics: Health Research Investment
Helps Doctors
Give Best Possible Care To Patients
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Health care debate turns vile with Nazi
analogy
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Video: Fox News Kondracke blames Rush Limbaugh for inciting
town hall disruptions examiner.com
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Kill Grandma? Debunking A Health Bill Scare Tactic, by Julie Rovner
NPR.org
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Non-partisan Data / Background on US Health Care:
Based on published studies and expert testimony
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National Coalition on Health Care www.nchc.org/facts/coverage.shtml
Founded in 1990, non-profit and rigorously non-partisan
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts About Americans without Health
Insurance. October 2006. www.kff.org/uninsured/
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Reform: The Cost of Failure - Number of Uninsured Americans
Could Reach 65.7 Million Within 10 Years www.rwjf.org/files/research/costoffailure20090529.pdf
"In the worst case scenario, the number of
uninsured Americans would increase to 57.7 million in 2014 and to
65.7 million in 2019. In the best case, the number grows to 53.1
million in 2014 and 57 million in 2019. All of these estimates
assume that states would continue to maintain current eligibility
levels for public coverage. Without this, the number of uninsured
would be even higher."
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The Number of Uninsured Americans is at an All-Time High. 29
August 2006 www.cbpp.org/8-29-06health.pdf
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Employee Health Benefits: 2008 Annual Survey. September 2008. www.kff.org/insurance/7672/index.cfm
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Institute of Medicine
Hidden Costs, Values Lost: Uninsurance in America. The National
Academies Press. 17 June 2003 http://www.iom.edu/Report.asp?id=12313
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National Committee for Quality Assurance. The State of Health
Care Quality, 2008, Industry Trends and Analysis. Washington, DC,
2007. The State of Health Care Quality 2008 is available to the
public on NCQAs Web site, www.ncqa.org/sohc
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WHO ranking of Health Care Systems, 2000 http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
See table, on page 152: Annex Table 1 Health system attainment and
performance in all Member States,
ranked by eight measures, estimates for 1997
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Testimony of Wendell
Potter, former Insurance Executive, Before the U.S. Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation pbs.org
"As you hold hearings
and discuss legislative proposals over the coming weeks, I
encourage you to look very closely at the role for-profit
insurance companies play in making our health care system both
the most expensive and one of the most dysfunctional in the
world. I hope you get a real sense of what life would be like
for most of us if the kind of so-called reform the insurers are
lobbying for is enacted."
Expert Perspectives: NEJM articles - links to free
full text.
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Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen
Morrissey, Ph.D., Debra Malina, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.
"A growing
series that currently includes almost 100 Journal articles
and online features, a diverse group of authors representing all
parts of the health care system and all points of view have wrestled
with the issues the country faces. The articles provide thoughtful
commentary on universal coverage, comparative-effectiveness research,
outcomes research, health information technology, economic
challenges and cost containment, and new delivery systems." nejm.org
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Health Care Reform Toward More Freedom, and Responsibility, for Physicians Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/361/6/623
Comment: the reform
proposals as it appears now to me is basically about stopping some of the bleeding spots: insurance abuses, and rising tide of uninsured ... but to cut rising costs (such as unnecessary and redundant
medical tests and procedures) more difficult measures (beyond the easily influence of
legislation) are likely needed, such as described in the NEJM article.
~ KarlS
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