Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Health care reform needs to build bridge (personal note)

I wanted to thank the democratic house for ending the war on health care. As for the battle that persist- I am hoping that democrats can build bridges.
I am not one who desires to enter the medical field ever, but I have been sought for guidance from those who want to enter the field.  The result from my research in helping them have uncovered many inconsistencies in  degree programs and little bridge programs.

For example, students dislike going to 2 year colleges because 4 year colleges don't want to take their credits.
(except for Excelsior college).  Another reason is the conversion of credits from trimester to semester is lost when a students transfers even from a four year to another four year college.  Four year colleges don't wish to take even  basic credits and thereby increasing their funding and costing the government billions.

I am hoping that at least for those who enter the medical field  congress can add an option to the bill that can increase medical staffs and help students. For example, those who enter the medical field, if they choose to enter the bridge program they get an increase in grants after successful completion of each bridge program.
There are schools like Lincoln tech that give LPN or  License practitioner of nursing degrees. After six months they can enter the RN program in a 2 year school.  If students successfully get licensed they get more grant money to enter perhaps the physician assistant program.
Currently at this level there are no bridge programs after physician assistant, so if there is an endorsement for a bridge program (not to be confuse with medical assistant) to a p.h.d program the medical field would be over flowed with qualified personnel. Another compliment of this program would be if education institution successfully accepts and produces licensed medical professional they would get additional funding.  Half of the funding for student grants and the other half for the school. That would resolve one type of hurdle.

Another hurdle existing is some medical graduates have a hard time with the licensing board. I humbly request a proposal that would give graduates the choice to take the physician assistant test and they would be allowed to work maybe part time and still be allowed to take the doctorate exam until they pass. Iam sure those from the mayo clinic or Harvard medical school can provide solid guide lines.  Another group affected by not having bridge programs are those that just graduated with a bachelors of science in biology or health science. Their lack of nursing experience have hinder them from entering the P.A program. Therefore, guidelines for bridge programs should be developed for them as well.

Many uninsured are shaking at the uprising of republican litigations. One would propose that if states should choose not to mandate they should not qualify for additional funds such as charity care funds etc... If 75-100% of the states people do choose health care then the state forfeits the word "choice" and it becomes a mandate because the people have spoken.

As for the NJ physicians that choose to bring suit because of the overwhelming business that will be coming there way, if congress involves them in tort reform or physician insurance reform their likely to drop their case.

Thanks for the spare time

lrl





Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Nay sayers of health care


If you want health care, you might want to call these congressmans and put pressure on these house of representatives.  If they still vote no, may be you should tell billions of your facebook friends not to vote for these people.

The Nay Sayers:

Jim marshall -GA
Artur Davis- Ala
Bobby Bright-Ala
Dan Boren- Ark
Ben chandler-Ky
Stephanie Herseth-SD
Heath Shuler-N.C
Chet Edwards-Tx (he left a message for every one stating he would vote No.)
Gene Taylor- Ms
Tim Holden-Pa
Larry kissel-N. C
Frank Kratovil -M.D

You should know that these democrats are clearly not interested in it's people. They stand in opposition along with the republican's. Maybe you should rally against them and support other democratic opponent.
If you already know what you have, maybe you should deal with what you don't know.




Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Health care talk

I never knew men could talk so much. The congressional hall ,who is mainly consistent of men, has been talking about health care reform for over 70 years. Can you believe that? And they call women chatter box.
What is worst is that they have done nothing. Hopefully, I'm right and talks will be signed into law by the date of January 31st 2010.  In order for that to happen President Obama has to go beyond the fast track and help bring "the talkers" to the finish line.

Hoping is not enough. Adding, substituting ,and compromising will need to Jump in this fight.
One fight is to permanently remove the health care industries safety net. The Antitrust exemption law must go.
The industry continues to milk billions of dollars in benefits because of the Antitrust exemption law. If this law is not removed there will be billions of dollars of lost to the consumer and millions of lives lost due to stupidity of some members of congress who refuse to support full competition.

Another show of resistance is giving the industry more time to milk the poor consumers with element of "time after time".  The house proposes subsidies or funding that would start in 2013, however, the senate version would give the health care industry more time. The Senate version for subsidies for adult consumers would start in 2014. That sounds like a non partisian voters idea like....um.... the Republican's. This idea should be nixed or atleast compromised on. The best thing they could do is start immediately on proposals that would not cost the tax payer anything. For example,  adults and children could not be denied health care immediately- even if they have preexisting conditions and government subsidies would start in 2012. Compromising on illegal immigrants is risky. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to piggy back on their Legal or U.S born children with no federal funding available to them, other wise, the American tax payer would still be paying for it in the future. 

Taxing the poor and middle class who are in debt because of wall street-can be dangerous to both republican and democratic reelection. As a voter, it would be wise for democrats to tax those who engage of risky behavior such as tanning salons and companies who add preservatives in their food that does not make us healthier but contributes to  kids high blood pressure. Nix the idea of cadillac taxes and medicare payroll tax idea and tax hospitals who don't want to negotiate in bringing cost down. There are millions of ways to tax, bring cost down and changes to those who don't contribute to health maintenance.

At any rate, cost measures need not be difficult, if they just agree to agree and move the bill in to Law. If they do that perhaps they will move on to being women.  Woman actually do what they promise.