Genesis Health Systems

What can we do to reform health care systems?

In this bad economy is there anything we can do to help reform the health care systems? Please explain.

Public Comments

1. Remove the profits being made by insurance companies by removing the indurande companies. How much more health care would be available????? Allow individuals to set aside tax free dollars for health care that are inheritable!
2. Kill the Lawyers
3. Not socialising it and eliminating medicare for illegals would be a start. Reforming the insurance industry @ LAUREN G: Wow 22k? I just had a daughter and it costed only $200, but then again I have health insurance. Sorry to hear it costs that much for you but how can you put a price on life? And nice call on the IUD lol
4. Just boycott! Cancel your health insurance; man up! Quit being a coward and only go to the hospital if you absolutely have to go. Most of the medicines that you are on are useless and you only think that you need to be on them. Most of the pain that you have can be managed with relative ease. Let these insurance companies and hospitals lose so much money that they will be wanting to pay you to give them a visit and provide their services on you. I honestly have not been to a doctor in years. Sure, I hurt myself here and there. I get sick. I have figured out how to treat myself; how to eat and how to live to where I won't need a nurse to put a band aid on me every time I get a cut...and I guarantee that I am more active than 99% of you that are on here. Seriously people...wake up! Doing the same thing over and over again will not offer you a different result.
5. I can only tackle one part of the health care system that is on my mind at the moment. I dont understand why the government has made such a ruckus over abortions/birth control, etc... I am Pro-Life, always will be. From the moment that I walked into the hospital to give birth to my daughter until the minute that I walked out, I accumulated approximately $22K in hospital bills. After I had my child, I went and got an IUD. With that being said, I dont understand why there are people who were on welfare and government issued healthcare before they ever had a child, and now have multiple. An IUD (intrauterine device) without insurance is approximately $700 and is good for five years. Here are my thoughts on that. I, as a taxpayer, would rather foot the bill for a $700 IUD bill rather than at least $14K in medical bills (assuming it was a vaginal delivery with no epidural or pain management, no epesiotomy, standard LDR--pretty miserable) then at LEAST $20 a week in infant formula (this is offbrand by the way) for 12 months (that is how long an infant is supposed to be on formula), diapers which the offbrand case is about $20 for about 80-100 diapers which may last 2 weeks at the most, medical bills for the child to get his/her vaccinations and checkups and illnesses. And within the 5 years of having the IUD, we can calculate that there are 60 months in 5 years with approximately 4 weeks in each month. which is 240 weeks. The average gestation is 40 weeks (and doing the math is an average of 10 months, not 9...) that this woman may back to back have 6 children in 5 years....exactly. And if she is an uneducated woman or a woman who depends on government issued healthcare and welfare as a means of sole support (which please believe me, it happens, especially down here in TX where I am from) then she may not know that it takes no recovery time for a woman to become pregnant again after giving birth, EVEN if she breastfeeds. Let alone, this same woman probably would not follow the guidelines to wait at least 6 weeks after birth (vaginal OR cesarian) to engage in sexual intercourse again, this is a GREAT possibility. SO doing the math, we can ask a woman using government assistance who has at least ONE child (to be fair, because after all a lot of people do not ask to be in these situations) to get an IUD ($700) or even any other form of birth control that is more reliable than a condom or the pill (injections, implants, etc...) or we can foot a $14K hospital bill, $2K in prenatal and postnatal care for the mother, $20 a week for 52 weeks for formula (not including baby food for when the child reaches between 5 and 6 months), an average of $50 a month for diapers, and heck, Ill even leave OUT the pediatric medical bills. This all comes to a grand total of approximately $17.5K and this can be repeated 6 times (max) during the life of this 5 year method of birth control to a total of $105K. You can argue, as everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I am also entitled to not really care how offended someone is because I haven't target any one race of religion here. Except Polygamists, they believe in "milking the beast".... Hi there again. I have insurance too, and my child was planned by my husband and I, but if I had not have had insurance it would have been $22K. I was in labor for 13 hours after a required induction, and ended up having a C-Section. This is my example of how things can go SO awry, and we can plan for something, and it not end up being that way. I can not put a price on life, this is why I am PRO-LIFE and support having reliable, effective, government issued birth control to people on government assitance rather than unwanted children who are not raised in an environment where they are wanted.