Health care insurance impacts everyone especially caregiving and caregivers. There may never be a perfect 'universal' plan but it is long overdue for talk to evolve into action.
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'country is watching' Massachusetts insurance plan
“ … Joyce Lawrence, who cares for the disabled and ill in their homes as a personal care attendant in Boston, says she has insurance now for the first time in years.
"This plan is fantastic," says Lawrence, who pays $105 a month for her health insurance. "I didn't go to the doctor before. …"
“ … Although controversial, the idea of requiring individuals to buy health care coverage has "gained currency in the past few years," says Drew Altman, head of the Kaiser Family Foundation ... Proponents say it is one way to ensure that society spreads the cost of insurance across the sick and the healthy … “
“… Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has promoted it as part of his health insurance plan, as has Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards. Another presidential contender, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has said parents should be required to carry health insurance for their kids. Republican Mitt Romney, also running for the presidential nomination, helped get Massachusetts' mandate passed in April 2006, when he was the state's governor.
"…The whole country is watching Massachusetts," says economist Paul Ginsburg at the Center for Studying Health System Change …”
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Can ‘we’ put aside ‘me’ and see that our health care coverage crisis affects everyone?
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer
So very true!
ReplyDeleteLisa
very true:)
ReplyDeleteDeb
This is so true! I always had insurance issues for myself while I had Charlie.
ReplyDeleteJackie
I wouldn't say universal would be the way to go either--but health care for all is a necessity.
ReplyDeleteThis has really become a hot potato, eh Patrick? Very timely though and couldn't have been brought to the fore sooner. We've got to find something better than this. If people are required by law to have a driver's license to drive, why not health insurance for sickness? It certainly evens out the field of those who pay the highest insurance premiums. Hopefully there'll be more discussions and we won't be waiting decades for a better plan.. CATHY
ReplyDeleteThis has really become a hot potato, eh Patrick? Very timely though and couldn't have been brought to the fore sooner. We've got to find something better than this. If people are required by law to have a driver's license to drive, why not health insurance for sickness? It certainly evens out the field of those who pay the highest premiums. Hopefully there'll be more discussions and we won't be waiting decades for a better plan.. CATHY
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ReplyDelete........health care with Kaiser in California was certainly less expensive than here in Oklahoma where we pay extremely high premiums for supplement insurance to medicare.
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