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T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Do you think Palmisano would be willing to run a trial program in Texas to reduce fraud?
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
A small observation about Recommendation 2
The 14th Amendment says
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside.”I take this to mean we are Texas citizens if we reside here, as well as US citizens.
Proof of residency is not really required under the regimen described. Anybody from California, for example, could bring a passport and get an EIC and vote here. They wouldn’t be Texans. Being a Texas citizen is key but overlooked.
[They can file a Statement of Residence if the address they give is bogus.]T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Many ISDs have abandoned Physical Education as a physical activity. Yes, many still “teach” phys ed by taking written test and occasionally moving around on the basketball court. But, real physical exertion is pretty rare. More often than not phys ed is a get-together time to shoot the breeze, not shoot hoops.
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Why is having insurance the true measure of health?
You wouldn’t measure satisfaction of having a home by whether they have insurance on their belongings or appliances – so why measure satisfaction with health and availability of healthcare services with having a monthly insurance premium to pay?We need to analyze the state of health in the US according to objective standards, not some weird measure of having insurance.
Those of us who have been hit by an uninsured driver in Texas understand that it’s not whether the other driver has insurance or not, but whether they pay us to fix our car they damaged. With millions of uninsured motorists driving around here, you’ll discover the truth of this.
So when my neighbor goes to minute clinic or I go to my regular private practice doctor or when a homeless person shows up at Parkland, if we all get treated and somehow manage to pay for it or get it paid for, why does it matter if we don’t all pay into some socialist trough that bureaucrats, insurers and doctors all eat from?
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Gov Abbott needs to convene insurance providers, not just healthcare insurance people, and present the problem to them:
How would they increase the proportion of Texans covered by healthcare insurance?
How would they create innovative products that combine savings accounts with healthcare insurance and/or health maintenance organizations for Texans?
Can they develop systems to improve effectiveness and/or lower costs of healthcare?
Can they suggest methods to handle the large number of uninsureds in Texas?He also need to convene medical providers to get their suggestions for improving the healthcare delivery systems.
This includes those in private practice, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, EMT services, private ambulances, mail order pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, laboratory services, and any others involved in delivery of healthcare.Then as an on-going basis re-convene them, perhaps jointly, to brainstorm solutions, as well as report on progress or obstacles to progress for public consumption.
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Good points
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
Thanks MC.
They passed it without knowing what was in it.
Only staffers who actually wrote the language knew, and they were completely trusted to put whatever language they wanted into law.
Fortunately no lobbyists ever influence how laws are written. So, something as massively important as 1/5 of the economy and the actual health care of the whole US at stake, of course no one influenced the verbiage to remove coverage for expensive drugs. But FREE birth control pills and morning after pills, too.Crony Socialists in the dead of night with no smoke filling their back room wrote PP&ACA. We the People have been victimized by Schumer who removed the original 7 pages of HR3590 and replaced it with 2800 pages of Obamacare payback. Democrats in both houses passed the returned (amended) HR3590 to give us years of deficit spending, disruption in insurance markets, monopolistic pressure on hospitals, doctors and the medical field, all the while lining the pockets of those receiving jobs as navigators and those receiving money to build non-functional websites and those now receiving insurance premiums with a government guarantee not to lose money.
T.E. Sumner, 10 years ago
A healthcare insurance plan with little predictability from year to year is a problem for everyone. It is more egregious for those on fixed payment pensions, like teachers, but many other workers also have pension payouts established years earlier that are now unworkable.
If you ask a teenager how a retirement pay of $20,000 a month sounds, he’d probably jump on it. But after 40 years of typical consumer price inflation, that $20,000 would probably not buy a car every month but rather rent a cheap apartment instead.
Retirement pension systems are horribly broken not just for public employees but also private industry.
Worse, social security (intended as a backup) is horribly broken the other way.
