The cost of health care inaction in Virginia

by milan milenkovic

The cost of health care inaction in Virginia :

1. 1,150,000 are uninsured today in Virginia and 1020 Virginians will lose their coverage every week because of rising costs.

2. The average family premium in Virginia costs $ 1000.00 more because our system fails to cover everyone.

3. Our broken health insurance system will cost the Virginia economy as much as $ 5,5 billion this year in productivity losses due to lack of coverage.

“ Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane”. - Martin Luther King, Jr

I have NO doubt that Pr Obama and his Team will finish with health care reform this year.

This reform “ isn’t about politics. This is about people’s lifes. This is about peoples businesses. This is about our future” - Pr Obama.

This reform is so important : for us , for our children and for next generations... I am sure that Pr Obama will not sign a health care bill that is not right or it’s not deficit neutral...

Fact: we are by far the most expensive health care system in the world, but performance and infant mortality rates are not good, when you compere with other countries in the world.

Fact: why to pay $ 6000.00 /person / yr more than other countries for health care what doesn’t work properly ?

Fact: we already reach our limits to pay for our health- care system: $ 2.2 trillion / yr. Would you like to wait 2017, to pay estimated over $4 trillion / yr ?

Fact: we have 46 million without h. ins, but private h. ins comp earn around $ 400 billion/yr

Status qua is unacceptable.

Solutions:

1. - prevention ( obesity / diabetes / smoking ...);
2. - electronic medical records and telemedicine
3. - NO health ins fraud ( cause around $ 100 billion in annual costs ).
4. - reduction of Health Bureaucracy ( educate administrator to become nurse- by 2020 we will have nationwide shortage of million nurses).
5. - primary care physician first, for non emergency case ( not in ER)
6. - Living wills.
7. - Lower costs for Doctors Malpractice Insurance
8. - Med- PAC program / IMAC