Posts Tagged ‘medical health care’

Forgotten Patients

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Well over a year there have been countless discussions lobbied for and against The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was signed into law early in 2010. There is an entire litany of evolving health insurance circumstances and changes that have occurred, but nowhere does it mention the welfare of the patients. There has been much discussion and media reporting on how much The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is going to cost the country over the next few years.

There have been discussions on the specific types of medical health insurance coverage that each individual citizens is eligible for and when. There have been many discussions on the half trillion dollars that will be re-focused from the Medicare program leaving our senior citizens in a quandary. The annual cost for individuals and the cost for families is another issue that has been discussed many times.

We have learned how the annual health insurance cost for individuals will be capped at no more than nine thousand dollars and the health insurance cost for families will be capped at twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Yet, with all this rhetoric there is still no concrete answers to how this will help every individual.

It does seem to appear that all the government is interested in is in finding innovative and creative ways to confiscate your heard earned income and leaving you with nothing more than a pittance for basic survival. How long will individual citizens continue to work only to turn over their paycheck at the end of the week because the government has decided they need your money for health insurance more than you do?

The heated rhetoric, the on screen arguing, the right to fund abortion or not, and other issues continuously seem to be creeping back into the conversation.  Still the government does not inform the public of what is going to be in the new health insurance policy or what health care coverage will be continued and what health care coverage is being denied to the mass public.

Would it not make better sense if the government went through the hundreds of pages of health insurance and medical health care issues that are current? What about only changing or eliminating those items that are redundant or not fruitful. Why not have the government rid the entire health insurance system and medical health care system of the fraud that is at the root of the problem?

Was it really necessary to overhaul the entire health insurance industry and medical health care community only to achieve a single payer health care system that the government wanted in the first place?  Only to now mandate that we the people must do what they say and buy a health insurance policy that is approved through the Internal Revenue Service whether we want one or not?

Ultimately, this is nothing more than another ploy to confiscate more of your hard-earned money and create a dependent society rather than an independent society. Is this what you want? Do you want to teach your children to be dependent upon the government for all possible needs?

Healing Faster

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The health insurance industry is aware that many young Junior High and High School sports are males who, like all young adults believe they are invincible and perform at anything. Sadly, this mind set also causes many young male athletes to experience a hernia because of over extending their body muscles. Now, their body is compromised with a condition that on average affects older men.

The sports health insurance only offers minimal health coverage and the parent’s health insurance policy remains the primary policy. The medical insurance is there to ease the burden of health risks due to hospitalization and surgery, but in such young children, this was unheard of a few years ago.

These young athletes are experiencing an excruciating pain and yet the sports related hernia is very difficult to detect and to treat. Once the sports related hernia is finally diagnosed, the health care treatment would continue for months and the young athlete is no longer able to continue in the sports program until given a clean bill of health.

Realizing that the health insurance industry is there to help reduce the monetary cost to all subscribers of the various insurance plans, you have to wonder how many times they are obligated to pay out for the same related surgery. This is now a difficult problem for the parents, the student, the school and coaches, and the health care industry.

Everyone is trying their best to cut corners and concede certain issues in order to receive a low cost health insurance policy that will offer adequate medical coverage in times of emergency. Yet, the cost continues to rise because of duplicate and triplicate incidents of surgery and hospital stays.

The medical community through the group of health care orthopedic surgeons has recently come up with a new procedure to aid in the repair of the sports related hernia and shortens the length of time the student must sustain for rehabilitation. The new, more innovative procedure consists of less evasive surgery reducing the healing time from an average of twenty weeks down to four or five weeks.

This was conducted through a group health insurance effort including the medical community.  After a very lengthy study, new guidelines were instituted for the hernia surgery and the healing time. To date, many in the community, especially the sports athletes, are very satisfied with the new procedures now put into place. In time, these new procedures and treatment schedules will be throughout the country and reach every medical community and school.