Comments on: Ex-Medicare chief criticizes Obama, McCain health care plans

By: wendynorris

wendynorris — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:16:50 +0000

I'm with you on the electronic record collection. While it can be helpful for contraindications on medications, for instance, the lack of security is pretty stunning.

The simplest route to expand health insurance and make care more affordable (for both patient and insurer) is to abandon the disease model of health care and move toward a wellness-prevention schema.

There are far too many monetary incentives that perpetuate the vicious cycle of the multi-trillion dollar illness, treatment, rehab and pharmacology industries.

And, then if one could lick the twin reform killers

By: stealthisbook

stealthisbook — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:41:26 +0000

The solution is to aggregate huge amounts of personal medical data collected through “public-private partnerships”? It gives me cold sweats to ponder the consequences of letting that much more of our private records be collected without us knowing who can get a hold of it.

It seems to me that the greatest health savings will be to insurance companies that would be able to model risk at the individual level and screw us over accordingly. “I see here that you had measles as a child and once had a prescription for a sleep aid… sorry, we can't cover treatment for cancer or alzheimers in that case”

By: stealthisbook

stealthisbook — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It seems to me that the greatest health savings will be to insurance companies that would be able to model risk at the individual level and screw us over accordingly. “I see here that you had measles as a child and once had a prescription for a sleep aid… sorry, we can’t cover treatment for cancer or alzheimers in that case”

By: wendynorris

wendynorris — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m with you on the electronic record collection. While it can be helpful for contraindications on medications, for instance, the lack of security is pretty stunning.

The simplest route to expand health insurance and make care more affordable (for both patient and insurer) is to abandon the disease model of health care and move toward a wellness-prevention schema.

There are far too many monetary incentives that perpetuate the vicious cycle of the multi-trillion dollar illness, treatment, rehab and pharmacology industries.

And, then if one could lick the twin reform killers