Health care not Guaranteed

by 158 | August 7, 2009 at 10:25 am

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" Even if Congress extends health coverage to the nation's 46 million uninsured Americans, there's no guarantee that everyone will have access to care -- unless payment reforms and new models of care are adopted, some experts say. Significantly expanding coverage without reforming health-care delivery is "a recipe for failure," said Alwyn Cassil, a spokeswoman for the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C. "You won't be able to sustain the expanded coverage because it will just bankrupt us."

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There is no doubt the United

States needs health care reform

but it needs to be cone in the

correct way, planned, reviewed,

checked, debated and if necessary

modified. It does not rushed through

for political reasons. President Obama

has a good idea and good intentions

but he is trying to rush a massively

expensive and complicated health

care bill through congress. There is

no crisis in health care and taking a few

months to make sure it is affordable

and will work.

Spending on health care this year is projected to reach $2.5 trillion, or 17.6 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of Medicare and Medicaid data. That's up from 7.2 percent in 1970, and by 2018 it could swell to one-fifth of the GDP, which is a measure of all goods and services produced in the United States. Meanwhile, a worsening shortage of primary-care providers and rising demand for certain specialists will continue to strain the system, perhaps creating long waits for appointments.