[lit-ideas] Re: The flu
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:43:27 -0500
In Canada the government has cut out eye exams from OHIP and yet there are
people lobbying for OHIP to cover sex changes. It's mind boggling. If that
one gets pushed through, Mike, I'll let you know.
Erin
Toronto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:36 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu
> > And rest of the OECD falls in line. So it shouldn't be
> > a financing issue.
>
> True, but this is a state expenditure which amounts to a third of the
> Tennessee annual budget. TennCare is a program designed to make up for
the
> shortfall in Federal healthcare for the poor -- Medicaid -- by covering
> those who aren't destitute but who have no insurance or can't afford the
> care necessary for their health maintenance.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/national/20tennessee.html?oref=login
>
> It's the Federal Government that is failing. Actually, it's the GOP.
Greed
> Over People, Greed Over Peace, Greed Over the Planet. Let them eat
their
> own flesh.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teemu Pyyluoma" <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:04 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu
>
>
> > The thing that I don't understand at all, is how you
> > can spend that much on healthcare and still not have
> > universal coverage?
> >
> > From OECD Observer, page 8 - 9
> >
(http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/cgi-bin/OECDBookShop.storefront/EN/produ
ct/012004071E1)
> > 2002 figures:
> > USA
> > Total healthcare expenditure: 14.6% GDP, $5267 per
> > capita
> > Of that public expenditure: 44.9%, which means 6.6%
> > GDP and $2364 per capita
> >
> > UK
> > 7.7 GDP, $2160
> > 84.4, 6.5 GDP, $1823
> >
> > France (often consider best care in Europe)
> > 9.7 GDP, $2736
> > 76%, 7.4 GDP, $2079
> >
> > And rest of the OECD falls in line. So it shouldn't be
> > a financing issue.
> >
> >
> > Perplexed,
> > Teemu
> > Helsinki, Finland
> >
> >
> > --- Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Saturday, November 20, 2004, 10:02:14 PM, Mike Geary
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> MG> Here's the reply Reply. It isn't Texascare,
> >> it's TennCare -- Tennessee
> >>
> >> sorry -- I read the piece (NYT?) rather too fast.
> >>
> >>
> >> I
> >> MG> know a couple of people who are extremely
> >> distraught over the coming
> >> MG> abandonment of TennCare. Friends who take
> >> psychopharmaceuticals worth a
> >> MG> thousand dollars plus a month. There's no way
> >> they can afford that and they
> >> MG> earn over the Medicaid cut-off income level.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes. The article I read quoted a woman who needs
> >> medication that costs more than $1000 a month. It's
> >> terrible.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe they'll flip out without
> >> MG> their meds and uzi out the entire government.
> >> I'd support that.
> >>
> >> not such a bad idea
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
> >> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>
> >>
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