health care system in america

• America's Health Care System Is in Need of Reform

To the Editor: America's health care system is crisis and in dire need of reform.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• June 08, 2010

• Misdiagnosed: why all the money in the world won't fix what's wrong with America's health care system.

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price By Jonathan Cohn HarperCollins, 320 pp. In his new book, Si...

• Washington Monthly
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 5, May 2007

• Health Reform Now We Need a Uniquely American Solution for Affordable Health Care

Hoosiers need health care reform now. As someone who represents hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who work for a living and who see their insurance premiums outpacing their wages, two things are clear: The health care system in America is broken, and until we fix it, we can't expect our economy to get back on its feet.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• September 24, 2009

• Supreme Opportunity to Right a Wrong ; High Court Should Repeal Law Before It Sickens the Nation

In March, the Supreme Court will hear the challenge by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. A ruling is expected by midsummer. Although many provisions don't kick in until 2014, this 2,700- page mess is already giving America's health care system a bad cold, which will morph into pneumonia if the law is not overturned. A few of the symptoms already have emerged:

• The Washington Times
• November 22, 2011

• ; Educators Say Advocates Can Help Patients Navigate a Complex System.

YELLOW SPRINGS -- Who isn't confused by health care in America these days? Even the professionals have trouble navigating what's become a complex system of processes, procedures and delivery. So what's a patient to do?

• Dayton Daily News
• August 22, 2011

• Us Health Care System

Although this health care bill may not be what Sen. Ted Kennedy wanted, it's a start. I don't understand why some Americans are so adamantly against this, but if these questions could be answered I am eager to listen. Why do conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh believe that the current health care system in America is fine when 50 percent of Americans are uninsured and thousands die every year due to lack of insurance? Why do Republicans say we can't afford health care, yet they have no problem cutting taxes for America's wealthiest, which has cost this country a trillion dollars over the last 10 years? Why not bring back that tax to help pay for the new health care system?

• Bangor Daily News
• January 19, 2010

• Child Welfare League of America (Cwla) Highlights Health Care Needs in the Child Welfare System

News Advisory: Children and youth involved with our nation's child welfare system often have extensive physical and mental health care needs. The Child Welfare League of America is sponsoring a briefing, "Extraordinary Circumstances: Health Care Needs of Children in the Child Welfare System," to highlight new research on children in foster care who experience disproportionately high rates of chronic physical, mental, developmental and behavioral conditions. The briefing will feature a special focus on the implications stemming from the high number of foster children with serious behavioral or mental health problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

• U.S. Newswire
• September 06, 2006

• Letter to the Editor: Tort Reform's Best

The health care system in America is overburdened with wasteful, unnecessary procedures performed to increase billing revenue. High costs of medical malpractice insurance from opportunistic, unfair lawsuits also drive up costs and prevent many physicians from practicing better medicine out of fear of the attorneys. Overuse of tests that only identify markers supposed to correlate with a condition, not the disease itself, often result in more harm to the patient than good, patients are terrified into consent by negative, mass media advertising. In addition, reliance on pharmaceuticals with big business salesmanship encourages many less capable doctors to prescribe drugs for symptoms rather than to treat underlying causes through preventive medicine, nutrition and improvements in lifestyle.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• December 23, 2009

• ; Federal Court Finds the Key Provision of the Law Goes Too Far

President Obama's scheme to take over America's health care system is in critical condition. On Friday, a federal appellate court in Atlanta struck down the individual mandate, a key component of Obamacare. This decision conflicts directly with the clean bill of health previously given to the entire law by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Ohio. With the 4th Circuit expected to rule soon on Virginia's challenge, the circuit split sets the stage for the Supreme Court to resolve the matter in the next term, hopefully putting this expensive and unnecessary program out of our misery. Breathtaking" was the term the 11th Circuit's 2-1 decision used to describe the "unlimited scope" of the law that will force individuals to buy health insurance. The judges found Obamacare to be...

• The Washington Times
• August 17, 2011

• The Status Quo in Health Care has Become Unacceptable

First, we need to create a stronger, more proactive health care system. Today in America, we have a "sickcare" system, not a health care system. Too many times, we see patients after they've been diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening disease. The damage has already been done. [...] we need to create a stronger, more proactive health care system. [...] 75 percent of the nation's overall health care spending goes toward caring for patients with chronic diseases.

• NJBIZ
• October 07, 2009