If this organization and the socialist idiots weren’t so dangerous, I would be laughing at this ludicrous screed...
Hey ACORN go see what the commies have in Russia and Cuba!
Yeah, doctors on set fees...Check.
No “technological gadgets”.... Check.
24 hour house calls, immediate service in all areas of the city.....uh, no.
A. At Hospitals
Communism
B. In the medical professions:
Slavery
C. At the health insurance companies:
Eliminate them by making them free and run by collectivists
D. In the government:
Medicare as Socialism
E. Doctors as slaves
F. Doctors as slaves
G. Communism
H. More Communism
The Movie IDIOCRACY can’t match this imbecilic DRIVEL.
Sorry but I’ll provide my comments later. I have to go take a shower... I feel dirty after visiting that site.
They think we’re their aphids, there for them to milk.
Incompetent document is offered by ACORN...assume Obama approves it.
Communist fantasy at its worst.
Just one comment about hospital structures and buildings: architects begin with govt. mandated rules of construction down to the fractions of an inch and choice of materials, etc. The high cost of hospitals and even private medical buildings arises as they must adhere to vastly costly govt. mandated building codes codes, even if they survive as proposed, the state and federal approval process is in itself prohibitory and unnecessarily costly. Non-medical staffing of hospitals is mostly concerned with govt. compliance issues and mandates, and is the major cost of administration.
And we’re funding this commie organization? (and Obama was one of its lawyers)
Joe Wilson is right!
<a. Require doctors - whose education is subsidized by the federal government - to work for three years in an area where there is a shortage of personnel.
Didn’t the Chinese do something similar by forcing all the educated people out to the rice paddies for a few years?
Now, that's not a half bad idea. The rest of it is rubbish
[Force hospitals to concentrate on providing basic quality care instead of wasting huge sums on showcase buildings and technological gadgets.]
Perhaps some empty crack housing in the barrio can be converted.
There goes the best health care system in the world.
Hey, you forgot "sexual orientation!"
At hospitals:
a.Prohibit hospitals from turning away any patient who needs medical care. (already law, IDIOTS)
b. Give low- and moderate-income members of the community a proportional share of seats on the governing boards of all hospitals.
c. Force hospitals to concentrate on providing basic quality care instead of wasting huge sums on showcase buildings and technological gadgets.
d. Enforce federal legislation that requires uniform minimum standards of operation for nursing homes.
In the medical professions:
a. Require doctors - whose education is subsidized by the federal government - to work for three years in an area where there is a shortage of personnel.
b. Prosecute local chapters of the American Medical Association if they continue to fix prices for doctors’ services.
c. Permit doctors and dentists to advertise prices and require price posting.
d. Prohibit doctors and dentists from refusing Medicaid and Medicare patients, and from billing more than Medicaid and Medicare recommended prices for the services they provide.
e. Place members of the community on all medical licensing boards.
C. At the health insurance companies:
a. Throw doctors and hospital administrators off the boards of directors, and replace them with a low- and moderate-income majority.
b. Require insurance companies to control hospital costs and medical fees rather than passing them on to their customers.
c. Prohibit discrimination by health insurance companies on the basis of race, sex, geography, income, age, or health status.
d. Provide all women with the services of midwives without the constraints and restrictions of the medical profession. Require all third party reimbursement to provide direct payment to certified nurse midwives.
D. In the government:
1. Reform Medicaid and Medicare by:
a. Raising income and assets limits for eligibility and removing the spend- down requirement.
b. Financing in-home care for the elderly as an alternative to nursing home care.
c. Including dental care and other preventative treatment in all Medicaid and Medicare plans.
d. Allowing Medicare and Medicaid recipients unlimited nursing home care.
e. Providing direct competitive payments to non-physician health care providers.
2. Charge state governments with setting maximum prices for basic hospital and medical services.
3. Require proportional representation of low- and moderate-income people on all health planning boards.
4. Require generic substitution options and price postings of subscription drugs.
5. Require the federal government to provide for the health care needs of recent immigrants.
II. Create a national health care system, along the following lines:
A. All medical costs are covered, by a combination of insurance, health maintenance organizations, free public health service. and sliding scale payments based on income.
B. The system is progressively financed.
C. The system is controlled by democratically elected community-based committees.
D. There is a 24-hour, 7 day-a-week medical care / emergency room available in every neighborhood, based in neighborhood clinics. The clinics provide all types of basic care, including ob/gyn, pediatrics, and preventative care, as well as the following types of services.
1. House calls.
2. 24 Hour telephone service.
3. Ambulance service.
4. A mini-bus to bring neighborhood residents to the clinic.
5. Mobile paramedics.
E. Doctors are on set salaries.
F. Medical education is financed by the government, in exchange for which doctors are required to serve in the public health service for a period of at least ten years.
G. Special emphasis is placed on preventive health care with free universal care and more adequate research on the most important facets of preventive medicine, including dental care, chiropractic, nutrition, prenatal care and vaccination.
H. Special emphasis is placed on maintaining a healthy environment, with the public health service responsible for strict enforcement of standards on: environmental quality, occupational health and safety, sanitation, foods, and drugs.
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In other words, TURN OVER HEALTHCARE TO ACORN so they can screw it up like they do everything else.
They already run the IRS!!!
R I C O !!!!!!!!!
So people with zero medical training and little, or no, education want to make our medical decisions!!!!!!!!!!! like those women giving out tax advice on the BigGovernment.com site this week??????