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Jose ♊️
Conservative Medicaid experts pointed out that some of the proposed cuts would likely overlap, rendering it misleading to simply add them all up. Other experts suggested that some of the proposals could potentially reduce Medicaid spending even further than congressional leaders estimate, potentially resulting in more than $2 trillion in cuts and potentially pushing millions of people off the program.

Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 80 million low-income and disabled Americans, cost taxpayers $870 billion in 2023.



#nprnews #news #democracy #trump #elonmusk #fireelon #healthcare #healthcaresystem #medicaid #medicare #healthinsurance #unitedstates #usa #newjersey #nj
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Richard Rathe

@kkarhan @josephinelee

We are more in agreement than you think IMO. "Mitigating the greater damages..." is what the 500 individuals in my example achieve. (It is a thought experiment after all.)

I'm not going to debate the #HealthcareIsAHumanRight issue here due to limited space. Suffice it to say, any #HealthcareSystem that does not provide AT LEAST the basics for everyone present in a society is not doing its job!

One problem in the US is we don't actually have a #healthcare system. We have a collection of partial solutions that in no way add up to a comprehensive #System. This leaves the doors wide open for fraud, waste, and abuse.

Private #HealthInsurance is only a solution if you have it, or can afford to get it.

"The current U.S. system of voluntary employment-based health benefits is not the consequence of an overarching and deliberate plan or policy. Rather, it reflects a gradual accumulation of factors: innovations in health care finance and organization, conflicting political and social principles, coincidences of timing, market dynamics, programs stimulated by the findings of health services research, and spillover effects of tax and other policies aimed at different targets."

Origins and Evolution of Employment-Based Health Benefits, National Academy of Sciences (1993)

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AlsoPaisleyCat

‘The Gosling Effect’ isn’t about Ryan, the Canadian actor.

It’s about the power of altruism, and the impact of Kevin Gosling, an ordinary Canadian who made a decision to make an anonymous donation of a part of his liver. His persistence changed the health care system and the way unrelated organ donors are viewed.

He is however an uncle to Ryan, in the very large Gosling extended family.

A comprehensive feature from The Ottawa Citizen reports on the transformative impact of Kevin Gosling and the others donors for whom he cleared the path.

‘A total of 2,936 organ transplants were performed in Canada in 2022. Eighty per cent of those transplants used deceased donor organs and 20 per cent used living donor organs. Fifty-two per cent of those living donors were related to the recipient. Forty-eight per cent were unrelated. . .

. . . And yet, outside of Canada, there is still a lack of understanding of how someone can be willing to give part of their organ to a complete stranger.

Dr. Nazia Selzner, who is the medical director of the live donor liver transplantation program at UHN, said she is frequently asked when he travels the world: “What is wrong with these people that they want to help someone else and go through a major surgery?”’

ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-

#Altruism#Good#GoodDeeds
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Strypey

This nails it (keeping in mind the points made in the preceding post);

"...collecting data to determine whether or not treatments work, or to understand why disease occurs, should not simply be the results of studies. It should be a property of a health care system."

#MatthewHerper, 2022

statnews.com/2022/11/03/why-we

STAT · Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovationThis is "biology's century," @matthewherper writes. But we’re approaching a moment when changes in what we understand are every bit as terrifying as exhilarating.
#health#PublicHealth#HealthCare
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