Twenty-six Lies About House Bill 3200

Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200

A notorious analysis of the House health care bill contains 48 claims. Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly misleading. Only four are true.

Click here (or paste to your browser) to read the story from Factcheck.org

http://factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/

August 28, 2009

from Faithful America (faithfulamerica.org)

"Just yesterday, Harvard Medical School released a study that shows nearly 45,000 people in the United States die each year because they don't have health insurance. [1]

This staggering statistic is worse than we thought -- nearly double previously reported numbers and greater than the number of deaths from drunk driving and homicide combined.

With new reports coming out every day about insurance companies trying to increase their profits by dropping patients after they get seriously ill and classifying cesarean sections and experiencing domestic violence as "pre-existing conditions," these devastating numbers are bound to grow unless we act. [2]

As a nation, we fail to fulfill our moral duty to love our neighbors, heal the sick and protect the vulnerable if we tolerate a system that kills so many of our brothers and sisters and leaves millions more in danger of dying preventable deaths.

Our current system is failing badly, and we need to get the word out."

Tom

Full article is at http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/news/2009/09/study_links_45000_us_deaths_to.html

from Caroline

Caroline tried to post to this site and had trouble. Here's what she said about Great Britain's program:

"I hate blogs! I spent ages writing something reasonably sensible, and then it told me I had to register, so I did, and I entered the comment, and it told me it had to "approve" me...and that was the last I heard. Maybe the comment is in some limbo comment land. Oh well. I said the NHS is great, basically. Excellent emergency and acute care and excellent "well-care" such as perinatal and post natal, and elder care. The mistakes don't seem to happen any more often there than here...and are probably all down to the same thing,- overwork and rush. And I asked how they do it in Taiwan or wherever it was that was used as the example."

what Taiwan did

According to someone who seems knowledgeable that I met at the Farmer's Market in Kennett, here's what Taiwan did:

About 6 years ago they were in a similar mess as ours: no system, highly escalating costs, etc. So, they looked at every other country's system and took what they thought were the best parts of all of them. Now, apparently 80-90% of the people in Taiwan are now happy with the system that they have come up with. How novel--look at what works in the world.

Does anyone know about systems that other countries use?

Tom

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It is intended as a modified "mindstorm", in which useful, creative ideas are encouraged and criticism, especially if not constructive, or personal attacks, are absolutely not allowed.

Please feel free to post a solution that you think the U.S. could follow to advance the goals of:

--making health care more affordable (because our present rate of growth in expenditure is impossible to sustain)

--making health care available to all citizens; we can discuss the issue of illegal immigrants, also.

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