Medicare Inefficient

Avatar — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:46:55 +0000

Experts agree that Medicare is flowing unequally into hospitals due to the fact that there are a lot of loopholes in the healthcare system. The many government teaching hospitals have beds filled with seniors many of whom are terminally ill and have been in confinement for sometime. Doctors are saying that a standardized set of guidelines should be set up to tell doctors how long people can remain in hospitals when on Medicaid for the longer they stay, the larger the bill. It may sound bland and cruel but there are more patients who need beds in these hospitals with diseases that are more life threatening. This questions the efficiency of hospitals in determining the optimal amount of time a person should be confined, and when they could be sent home to recuperate. Efficiency is the key and taxpayers would save billions of dollars in these hospitals that could go to more issues such as children’s health care.

Home-Based Health Insurance Getting Support

Avatar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:23:34 +0000

The Federal Government is lifting tight control on home-based health care for the poor in efforts to lower the total number of uninsured Americans. Current Federal sponsored programs do not allow home-based care and requires facility bound treatments for them to qualify. This would allow the poor to get the care they need and not have to pay for expensive hospitalization fees for procedures that could be done safely at home. The plan calls for availability of the option for people who fall no greater than 150% of the set poverty level. This is in hopes of filling in some of the gap whereby many Americans fall into in terms of health insurance. The working poor cannot avail of government sponsored health care for they are not poor enough, but still cannot afford private health care due to not enough income.

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Medicare Inefficient

Home-Based Health Insurance Getting Support