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Well, the
Congress and the President finally came through with
healthcare reform! But, will we still need a public option?
. .. Yes! We need it to
reduce
private insurers' profits
even further!
Among Medicare beneficiaries, the number with diabetes is
expected to rise from 8.2 million to 14.6 million in 2034,
with an accompanying rise in spending from $45 billion to
$171 billion. . . As a result, by 2034,
half of all direct spending in diabetes care is projected to
occur in the Medicare population.
President Obama's proposed "public option,"
would guarantee needy patients fully accredited care just like here, at Rye Hospital Center,
where such care
is already almost 100 percent federal- and
state-funded by Medicare and Medicaid. But because the American middle class is
still denied proper healthcare by
"managed care" (see below),
while
"Medicare Advantage" (to the big insurance
companies) was turned over to the private
insurance industry by the last administration, what is needed
now is private health insurance reform
to stop them from fixing prices and excluding the middle
class from proper treatment.
The discredited managed-care private insurance industry has become a "market failure,"
creating another insurance cartel like in the 1940s.
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