Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Side-by-side Comparison
The Kaiser Family Foundation has prepared an excellent side-by-side comparison of major health reform proposals, including President Obama's plan, released yesterday. You will find several comparisons prepared by Kaiser Family Foundation here.
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The comparison of the proposals on this web link was the most useful way to see what really is in the Health Care Reform Proposals. My 30 some years working mostly in the health care field with Medicare, HMO, PPO, Point-of-service plans; depositor group plans, individual plans; has seen each one of those types of health plans fall short in many ways or struggle to stay solvent without either an annual increase in premium or a reduction in approved benefits and passing more costs on to the patient.
After spending some time looking at the comparison of some of these Health Care Reforms and reading your blog entries; I am changing my position on health care reform. It is not at all what I have been hearing in the media or from other sources. Creating the insurance pools or exchanges seems like a good way to get more of the uninsured covered and still keep the private insurance companies in business. The insurance companies may have to change the products they offer, but they are used to that. After all, they wrote the insurance plans for HMO, Point-of-Service; PPO, etc.. and could create the new benefit categories for the plans to be offered in the Exchange.
I wish many more Americans would take the time to read some of these side-by-side comparisons on the Kaiser Family Foundation website. Health Care Reform would not be something to fear when you know what really is in the wording of the Health Care Reform Proposals. I certainly did not know until I read them.
I agree that what we see in the media has largely been fact-free. Shouting about death panels, a government takeover of healthcare, the number of pages in the bill, and the size of the expenditures, rather than the CBO estimate of deficit reduction do little to inform. Fortunately their are resources, but it takes more work than listening to 10 minutes of Glen Beck. Thanks for doing your part to study the issue and form a fact-based opinion.
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