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I am a Physical Therapist who works in nursing homes. I have seen first hand the horrible effects on great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers in nursing homes who are denied therapies like these.
Are you kidding? This is the best argument yet for radical healthcare change at the Federal level and to follow European models that have effectively delivered government-secured healthcare to their citizens.
I would rather pay the government 60% in taxes and get guaranteed healthcare, than pay 100% of my household income for health insurance premiums alone - that is if I could even get a policy that did not eliminate everything as a pre-existing condition.
Of course the current system is complex - that's part of the problem. The solution needs to be much simpler and much, much sooner.
He compared the cost of health care in the United States and Costa Rica. He stated that in the United States we pay approximately 4,800 dollars per person for health care and in Costa Rica they pay approximately 300 hundred dollars per person for healh care. And yet the average life expectancy in both countries is 77 years. It is obvious that throwing more money at a problem is not always the solution. If people would change their life styles ie: eating healthier, exercising, and reducing stress in their lives, maybe the quality of their life would improve.