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	<title>Comments on: &#8220;Without Cost Control, Universal Coverage Will Fail&#8221; by David U. Himmelstein, M.D.&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: mical parado</title>
		<link>http://commonhealth.wbur.org/david-himmelstein/2007/05/without-cost-control-universal-coverage-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-9699</link>
		<dc:creator>mical parado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

Just found your blog on Technorati &amp; Digg upcomming news feeds and read a few of your other posts.
ISeems good contents,Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.


Thanks,
Michael</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Just found your blog on Technorati &amp; Digg upcomming news feeds and read a few of your other posts.<br />
ISeems good contents,Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />
Michael</p>
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		<title>By: Alfred Jordan</title>
		<link>http://commonhealth.wbur.org/david-himmelstein/2007/05/without-cost-control-universal-coverage-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-2917</link>
		<dc:creator>Alfred Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The reality for healthcare like everything elswe is that price of services is rising faster than general inflation and personal income is not. Price controls on drugs, and caps on fees is not an answer. Even if we could eliminate all private insurers in favor of a single payer system that worked as envsion with virtually no frictional expense prices would still rise because medical innovation and drug development expenses require enormous capital investment well beyond inflation. Couple those expenses with our litigation society we then come to a place where the practice of medicine is intended to thwart price inflation. It simply cannot happen and expect healthcare delivery to be maintained at the standards we have come to expect. 

Access to medical is while vexing is not a mystery. We could as a society reduce spending on innovation and delivery care that eventually will make our new universal healthcare system unusable. We could cut the salaries of professionals to the point where those who require student loans will be unable to pay them back. We could outlaw health insurers and if that is not possible health insurer profits. How that would work is anyone&#039;s guess. The fact is that universal healthcare that is affordable is not one formula. It is not the Canadian System, National Health in Britain or even the vaunted systems in Signapore and Taiwan.
We must recognize first that we want forms of Universal Health Care. Not everyone will have the same plan. Everyone will have basic medical services but for those services that are not captured by any of the medical payments schemes we have to set to study how to tackle their broad use.
Universal health care can be a reality if we first stop trying to fight the big insurers and government. We need to take healthcare back from uncaring administrators back into the community. From that foundation we can then search for solutions to medical inlflation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reality for healthcare like everything elswe is that price of services is rising faster than general inflation and personal income is not. Price controls on drugs, and caps on fees is not an answer. Even if we could eliminate all private insurers in favor of a single payer system that worked as envsion with virtually no frictional expense prices would still rise because medical innovation and drug development expenses require enormous capital investment well beyond inflation. Couple those expenses with our litigation society we then come to a place where the practice of medicine is intended to thwart price inflation. It simply cannot happen and expect healthcare delivery to be maintained at the standards we have come to expect. </p>
<p>Access to medical is while vexing is not a mystery. We could as a society reduce spending on innovation and delivery care that eventually will make our new universal healthcare system unusable. We could cut the salaries of professionals to the point where those who require student loans will be unable to pay them back. We could outlaw health insurers and if that is not possible health insurer profits. How that would work is anyone&#8217;s guess. The fact is that universal healthcare that is affordable is not one formula. It is not the Canadian System, National Health in Britain or even the vaunted systems in Signapore and Taiwan.<br />
We must recognize first that we want forms of Universal Health Care. Not everyone will have the same plan. Everyone will have basic medical services but for those services that are not captured by any of the medical payments schemes we have to set to study how to tackle their broad use.<br />
Universal health care can be a reality if we first stop trying to fight the big insurers and government. We need to take healthcare back from uncaring administrators back into the community. From that foundation we can then search for solutions to medical inlflation.</p>
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		<title>By: Without Cost Control, Universal Coverage Will Fail - 2CDC Resources - Just another WordPress weblog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Without Cost Control, Universal Coverage Will Fail - 2CDC Resources - Just another WordPress weblog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 13:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Libby Mitchell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Libby Mitchell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Massachusetts like other regions of the world is being faced with increased pressures to cover costs, particularly of health prevention. What is very worrying is that Massachusetts treasurer Cahill reports that casinos and slot machine gambling would alleviate this pressure on the health system, by adding to tax revenues.

Please be warned by Australians who have suffered slot machines for 15 years, in all but one state of Australia, that this is NOT a plan that will help to pay for increased health costs. Our ONE state, Western Australia, that refused to have pokies or slot machines is now the only state that is surviving financially and growing in infrastucture terms. Slots have drained the coffers of all other states, so that bankruptcies, divorces, mental illness, suicides, theft and other crime rates have all soared! Businesses are failing while billions of dollars goes out the country&#039;s door to the gaming industry. The government share is just too inadequate to cover the added social costs. Our government gets 30% of the gambling take....and now we say it should be at least 50%. SOme people propose that the government must OWN the machines itself 100%...so that the government can then take full ownership of the rising costs.

How much will the Massachusetts government get of the casino take if these are allowed, with slot machines, to invade your state???

The majority of people surveyed across Australia by local governments in 2005 all called for slots to be banned or made much safer, with player smart cards to be offered, to limit and record spending.

 Slot machines are dangerous products, purposely designed to addict using subliminal messaging, contrived &#039;near miss&#039; wins and hypnotic features to addict normal human beings. These deadly machines that attack normal people to cause over-spending are presented as &#039;harmless toys&#039;, but are in fact dangerous consumerequipment, with insufficient protective features to prevent predicted and planned addiction.

If slots were the universal financial &#039;cure&#039; that we were led to believe that they would be...why then do most people in Australia now want them gone?? Look also to New Zealand, Guam, as well as to Canada and South Carolina...and Norway...how much evidence do you need?

You are all being conned...made to believe that you can score from another&#039;s inability to restrain himself...you are being conned to suggest that slots  will make you a profit over years! 

Do all that you can to keep your businesses productive...do not follow our path....check out why  people hate these insidious machines of destruction....we are NOT wowsers who want to kill good fun....we are normal business people and community workers who have SEEN the huge losses that have been caused...while the gaming industry gains....along with the puppet governments it entices, then cripples. Slots cause FAR more in health cost terms than they GAIN. And ALL people pay those costs....this is not a case of &#039;getting something for nothing&#039; here...where we might as  well get money from stupid slots players...because THEY are costing us ALL far too much. We all pick up their pieces!

You have NOT been told the truth if you believe that slots / casinos etc are an &quot;INEVITABILITY&quot; that will bring &quot;MORE MONEY&quot; to communities. They in fact suck them dry. THINK AGAIN!! Check the internet...see what objections are occurring in other countries, who are crunching under slot machine addiction!! Your government is clutching at a straw....and the straw is poisoned!! 

Only the gaming industry giants will not draw the &#039;short straw&#039; if you bring in this form of revenue -raising!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Massachusetts like other regions of the world is being faced with increased pressures to cover costs, particularly of health prevention. What is very worrying is that Massachusetts treasurer Cahill reports that casinos and slot machine gambling would alleviate this pressure on the health system, by adding to tax revenues.</p>
<p>Please be warned by Australians who have suffered slot machines for 15 years, in all but one state of Australia, that this is NOT a plan that will help to pay for increased health costs. Our ONE state, Western Australia, that refused to have pokies or slot machines is now the only state that is surviving financially and growing in infrastucture terms. Slots have drained the coffers of all other states, so that bankruptcies, divorces, mental illness, suicides, theft and other crime rates have all soared! Businesses are failing while billions of dollars goes out the country&#8217;s door to the gaming industry. The government share is just too inadequate to cover the added social costs. Our government gets 30% of the gambling take&#8230;.and now we say it should be at least 50%. SOme people propose that the government must OWN the machines itself 100%&#8230;so that the government can then take full ownership of the rising costs.</p>
<p>How much will the Massachusetts government get of the casino take if these are allowed, with slot machines, to invade your state???</p>
<p>The majority of people surveyed across Australia by local governments in 2005 all called for slots to be banned or made much safer, with player smart cards to be offered, to limit and record spending.</p>
<p> Slot machines are dangerous products, purposely designed to addict using subliminal messaging, contrived &#8216;near miss&#8217; wins and hypnotic features to addict normal human beings. These deadly machines that attack normal people to cause over-spending are presented as &#8216;harmless toys&#8217;, but are in fact dangerous consumerequipment, with insufficient protective features to prevent predicted and planned addiction.</p>
<p>If slots were the universal financial &#8216;cure&#8217; that we were led to believe that they would be&#8230;why then do most people in Australia now want them gone?? Look also to New Zealand, Guam, as well as to Canada and South Carolina&#8230;and Norway&#8230;how much evidence do you need?</p>
<p>You are all being conned&#8230;made to believe that you can score from another&#8217;s inability to restrain himself&#8230;you are being conned to suggest that slots  will make you a profit over years! </p>
<p>Do all that you can to keep your businesses productive&#8230;do not follow our path&#8230;.check out why  people hate these insidious machines of destruction&#8230;.we are NOT wowsers who want to kill good fun&#8230;.we are normal business people and community workers who have SEEN the huge losses that have been caused&#8230;while the gaming industry gains&#8230;.along with the puppet governments it entices, then cripples. Slots cause FAR more in health cost terms than they GAIN. And ALL people pay those costs&#8230;.this is not a case of &#8216;getting something for nothing&#8217; here&#8230;where we might as  well get money from stupid slots players&#8230;because THEY are costing us ALL far too much. We all pick up their pieces!</p>
<p>You have NOT been told the truth if you believe that slots / casinos etc are an &#8220;INEVITABILITY&#8221; that will bring &#8220;MORE MONEY&#8221; to communities. They in fact suck them dry. THINK AGAIN!! Check the internet&#8230;see what objections are occurring in other countries, who are crunching under slot machine addiction!! Your government is clutching at a straw&#8230;.and the straw is poisoned!! </p>
<p>Only the gaming industry giants will not draw the &#8217;short straw&#8217; if you bring in this form of revenue -raising!</p>
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