“The economic recession and rising unemployment—plus changing demographics and baby boomers aging into Medicare—are among the factors expected to influence health spending during 2009-2019. In 2009 the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to have increased 1.1 percentage points to 17.3 percent—the largest single-year increase since 1960. Average public spending growth rates for hospital, physician and clinical services, and prescription drugs are expected to exceed private spending growth in the first four years of the projections. As a result, public spending is projected to account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending by 2012.” - Health Affairs, 2/4/2010

For all the clamoring that is being expressed across the nation by some about how the government’s efforts to reform health care will increase costs, the actions of the PRIVATE health insurance industry lately are making it obvious that this fair doesn’t wash anymore. Without the government being involved at all, costs are projected to increase this year from anywhere to 10 and 25% by the PRIVATE sector. These increases come on the heels of record profits already raked in by the PRIVATE health insurance industry. Last year in 2009 “the five largest health insurance companies—WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana—took in combined profits of $12.2 billion, up 56 percent over 2008.” SOURCE

It needs to be notorious too that these increases consider only half of what PRIVATE health care insurers wanted to charge had they had their way. But then whose to say that what they wound up with wasn’t really what they wanted anyway? Would it be out of the bounds of reasoning to believe that by scaring the beegeebers out of us with increase demands of 30, 40 and 50 percent that somehow these higher rate scares were intended to be “negotiated” for the lower ones they are actually going to get, … and wanted in the first status?

If you are one of the many “lucky” ones who has a job AND employer-provided health care coverage, you may be starting to think that R-E-F-O-R-M is not such a bad word after all. By now you have seen your paycheck deductions and are surprised to find that the decrease had nothing to do with T-AX-E-S (Actually, if you made less than $250,000 you probably received a tax increase). It’s in that column that deducts your share of the health care coverage which your employer provides as part of your benefit package. If you haven’t seen it yet, thank your employer and be ready for an up-tick in health care costs to you.

Thank your employer because they haven’t passed on to you the cost of health care coverage they are being asked to pay by the PRIVATE health insurance company they choose it from YET. But eventually they will because such increases affect their bottom line and a business can not prosper if profits decrease. Large companies, especially those who have allotment holders, will be expected to pass on costs to their employees to keep dividends high for stock holders. This may seem like a necessary course of action in these hard times. Surely even the health care industry has to do what it needs to do to survive, right? No, that’s not entirely true.

You’re PRIVATE health care costs are going up in order for the PRIVATE health care insurance industry to maintain their current historical high profits. Over the last half century your insurance premium dollar has gone from spending 95 cents on health care costs you incur to roughly 80 cents, and in some cases 75 and 70 cents, depending on who insures you. Compare this to the 5% administrative costs of the government-run Medicare program today. What has gone up are the “administrative costs” PRIVATE insurance companies are charging to camouflage the expense of doing business. Choices that doctors and patients make when selecting higher cost technologies to assess “more accurately” health care needs is portion of this but without such choices a closer look reveals that large chunks are generated within the PRIVATE insurance industry to benefit their bottom line – profits.

To maintain these high profit margins there are several practices that PRIVATE insurance companies are engaging in that unfortunately hurt the consumer.

• Policy holders who bought their insurance in good faith from PRIVATE insurance companies are being refused treatment and procedures prescribed by their personally chosen physician because the bureaucrats at the PRIVATE insurance company have deemed them “unnecessary” (meaning: “too costly”). Though these high cost procedures are deemed necessary and even life-saving for patients, decisions are made by non-medical professionals at insurance companies to deny these requests often because these costs will cut too deep into company profits, especially if this procedure is allowed with everyone who requires them. This practice is similar to the actions of “death panels” that Sarah Palin claimed would be formed if “socialized medicine” became a part of health care reform in this country.
• Denying coverage of patients that may have had some pre-existing condition that PRIVATE insurance bureaucrats feel MAY re-occur sometime in the future. These are deemed “high risk” people who, by virtue of past health problems may have future ones along the same lines. Dispassionately presented, the business of PRIVATE health care insurance is to hope that they collect premiums from individuals who never have to utilize their health care insurance before they die or that what they use will not exceed what they cough up in premiums. Even if you can afford high premiums, they don’t want to cover you for horror they may have to pay for coverage they insured you for.
• Bonuses are paid to health industry employees who can dissect customer policies and find any error in their applications so they can reject their claims on an as-needed basis. This doesn’t become a legitimate effort until you need it most, when you incur a long-term, debilitating illness that will cost tens of thousands over a long period. Most insurance companies advertise their product in a warm fuzzy mode that associates them with the welfare of you and your family. You’ve seen them, like this one here. Some are cute. Some are even meant to be funny. But they all fail to convey this practice that your coverage is only valid until it’s not anymore, as THEY contemplate well-known.
• The health insurance industry needs more money to fight health care reform. “Medical providers, businesses and other groups battling over a health care overhaul have spent more than $100 million this year on television advertising – an enormous sum that highlights the stakes involved,” – Campaign Media Analysis Group, 10/1/09 This “immense sum” comes out of the premium dollar you pay for health coverage. This of course does not include thecost of advertising they buy to sell you on their products, many of which are deceptive.

Without getting off topic here too much I should state that there are other concerns also being raised by a vocal minority that don’t hold up to closer scrutiny either should a GOVERNMENT option be included in health care reform. Many of those fears have been debunked here. Other prominent fears raised by nay-sayers about a government option resulting in socialized medicine and raising already high deficits have been debunked too, here and here. This unfounded angst is bemoaned by what appear to be industry insiders posing as independent advocates to stoke the fears of uninformed consumers and voters.

In the current climate of economic uncertainty it is easy to fall prey to fears of manufactured views regarding health care costs by those who realistically stand to lose from health care reform – Stout Health Care Insurance. It’s not a loss they cannot absorb but it will be a change from the high profits they now assert from unethical practices to a time when we got more bang for the buck in health care coverage.

An argument could be easily made that PRIVATE, for-profit health care coverage threatens human life by its current standards to forsake the patient for the sake of higher stock holder dividend yields. This is NOT an argument against the profit motive contained within the capitalistic free-enterprise concept. Profits are a good thing and anyone within business that doesn’t strive for high profits within reasonable limits is perhaps better suited for other work in the not-for-profit enterprises that attend the public in many ways. But life-dependent areas should plunge outside this principle for the simple fact that human greed will ultimately turn a blind eye to human need, as has happened on more than one occasion.

Outside the self-interest of the health insurance industry there are those purists within capitalism that feel threatened by ANY government intervention into what they feel can and should be handled by the PRIVATE sector. Like fundamentalist Christians who often cherry-pick the Bible to justify their orthodox views, these purists quote chapter and verse of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” to defend there position on this while ignoring those parts that warn against the inequality of wealth. Smith worried too about the undue influence of wealth on government where legislation would be “instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor.”(Book V, Chapter I, Part II, 775). A little over a century later one of the greatest capitalist this nation has produced would concur. Andrew Carnegie stated in the opening line of his essay “On Wealth” that the proper administration of wealth should be “that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship”, NOT, as some see it within capitalism and the health insurance industry specifically, for the sole benefit of the wealthy

The reality is that aspects of both systems can work hand and hand to improve the well-being of all it’s citizens. Though “you will always have the poor” there is no reason to own that market mechanisms are sacrosanct and will always prevent abuses and excesses of a wealthy oligarchy, or likewise to believe that socialistic interventions will insure equitable resources to be distributed for all to enjoy a life of relative prosperity. But if we are to rein in these anticipated high health care costs and prevent further damage to our struggling economy we must be able to get past the rhetoric that supports the situation quo.

Providing economical health care for every person shouldn’t be based on an economic notion that supports the more fortunate amongst us. If we truly value life as most within our culture claim, then a system that achieves this should be created rather than sustaining one that doesn’t while it also takes more of our earned income to do so.

For further reading on the issue of increased PRIVATE health care cost, check out these sites:

WellPoint Price Hike Defense Fails To Satisfy Feds

California Death Spiral

Physicians for a National Health Care Program

Spreading the Wealth Around to the Insurance Industry and Friends

From his past public comments, it is clear that President Obama wants any original health care legislation to include a public option, reasoning that consumer choice and economic competition will benefit. According to Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw’s piece in the New York Times, a public option will have quite the opposite attain. Consumer choice and competition are typically achieved without a public choice. For example, a government option was not needed to create choice and competition among grocery stores, gas stations, or auto insurance providers.

Robert Reich, on the other hand, argued in the Wall Street Journal that a public option will act like any other not-for-profit health care concept, so there is no need to “coddle” the for-profit plans. However, Reich is a former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, and I find it difficult to trust anyone in that place who wasn’t smart enough to call for an end to the federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law.

As such, there is no way that a government option will act as a private nonprofit health care plan. Mankiw stated, “The public plan would have to stand on its own financially, as private plans do, covering all expenses with premiums from those who signed up for it.” In other words, it wouldn’t have access to taxpayer dollars. Even if this was the case (which it likely will not), the notion will mild have the ‘Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac benefit’. Mankiw describes this issue:

“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants created by federal law, were once private companies. Yet many investors believed — correctly, as it turned out — that the federal government would stand behind Fannie’s and Freddie’s debts, and this perception gave these companies access to cheap credit.”

The mere expectation of taxpayer support will give any public option an unfair advantage against private health care plans. These taxpayer subsidies will prevent the unprejudiced competition Obama and other supporting politicians claim they desire. In other words, because mandating a single-payer system is not politically possible in this country, “…a public option that uses taxpayer funds to tilt the playing field may be an gorgeous second best,” stated Mankiw. Reich either overlooks or ignores this aspect.

Reich points to the success of Medicare and Medicaid at limiting administrative costs. However, in a Wall Street Journal rebuttal, AEI’s John Calfee stated that Medicare actually outsources many of its administrative services to private sector providers. Additionally, we shouldn’t be looking to Medicare and Medicaid as examples. They are a enormous reason as to why our country’s health care finances are in shambles.

As for economies of scale, Calfee notes:

“Aetna currently serves about 18 million subscribers, UnitedHealth Care serves between 25 million and 30 million, and WellPoint more than 35 million. That is more than is served by the health-care monopoly of Canada (population 33.6 million), and more than the entire health-care systems of most European nations. Once a belief reaches a few million subscribers, there may not be a lot of economies of scale left that can enable public plans to provide lower prices [emphasis added].”

A government-sponsored public health care option will primarily control costs through monopsony power. According to Mankiw:

“A dominant government insurer, however, could potentially keep costs down by squeezing the suppliers of health care. This cost control works not by fostering honest competition but by thwarting it….a monopsony — a buyer without competitors — can chop the price it pays below the competitive level by reducing the quantity it demands [emphasis added].”

Calfee adds that other nations’ governments do lower prices through “monopsony, not superior skill [emphasis added].” Reich responds to such criticism by asking if a monopsony in health care is such a bad thing. Besides, Reich asserts, “no one has to choose it.” This is a complete lie. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already stated that a public option would force approximately 10 million people from their unusual, private insurance providers to the public “option”. They will not have a choice.

Of the most uncertain effects of a public option in health care, monopsony power will reduce the number of doctors, health care professionals, and perhaps most importantly, research and development (R&D).

The United States accounts for approximately one-half of the worldwide profits that make continued medical R&D economically feasible. According to Calfee:

“When other nations construct their health-care systems, they ignore the impact of their pricing policies on R&D incentives. As the dominant R&D funding wellhead, [the United States does] not have that option [emphasis added].”

Since Reich and others want to look to Medicare as an example, we shall. Medicare takes a “destructive arrive” to cost reduction by squeezing health care providers until too many refuse to accept Medicare patients. The government doesn’t even attempt to set appropriate reimbursement levels to cover R&D costs.

There are a lot of people that think that welfare recipients are lazy, do not want to work and are taking advantage of the system, however that is not the case. Some people are receiving assistance from the government because they cannot work due to disabilities, an illness, old age, or having to take care of a sick or disabled person. If they have children they can’t afford the babysitter when they work. To obtain assistance with babysitting the person has to be put on a waiting list. The waiting period is usually two years. For a person to obtain welfare they must be extremely poor and explain to the government that they actually need assistance. The application for welfare and food stamps is very long and detailed and it asks for the name, address, telephone number of the person requesting assistance. It also asks for utility bills, birth certificates of the parents and children and death corticated or divorce papers if applicable. The documents must be submitted with the application so the government can request child support from the courts for the person taking care of the children. The information requested is very personal and if the documents are not provided the assistance will not be forthcoming. In addition, an investigator comes to the residence to confirm the information provided. The investigator can ask the neighbors for information. The amount of assistance given is not sufficient for the basics such as food, rent, and utilities.

Food stamps that are given are not sufficient for a family to have nutritious meals. The family has to attempt to find food banks to supplement the food purchased with food stamps. Medical assistance for the poor is not good because many doctors do not accept Medical, Medicaid or Medicare; so the poor have problems obtaining appropriate health and dental care. Housing for the dreadful is difficult to gather and there is always a waiting list. The little money that is given to a family on welfare is not sufficient to remove new clothes for the children. The family has to go to thrift shops and second hand stores for clothes and shoes. All necessary items for the position are usually purchased from thrift shops, and garage sales. Very rarely can a family on welfare purchase new items. Previously families could purchase items at department stores on layaway but now it is rare the store that has layaways. Sometimes if the family qualifies the parents can obtain assistance with utilities.

The ones that suffer the most are the children as they are not given the proper nutrients at home to fabricate strong and healthy bodies. By the time they enter school they are lacking in basic vitamins and minerals and sometimes come to the attention of school personnel. School personnel usually remark the parents that they can obtain free breakfast and lunch at school upon qualifying. Many children launch developing dreadful self like when they realize they are poor others do not . Sometimes the result of poor nutrition makes a child sickly and this leads to learning problems in school. This is all due to poverty which exists in the United States of American even though it is a wealthy nation. The welfare system does not allow people to take advantage of it and when a person commits fraud to accept welfare they are usually caught as neighbors and strangers will complain to the proper authorities.

When a family is on welfare and receiving food stamps people discriminate against them. The family does not have what the majority of people have and this leads to problems within the nucleus of the family. The grown ups fight over money and the children suffer unnecessarily. Being on welfare many times provides the impetus for the family to educate and motivate their children so their children will grow up with goals to better themselves and not depend on the government for substance.

The United States, like other countries provide both private and public health insurance, but there is far more private than public healthcare. It is the only industrialized country that does not have publicly mandated government-funded coverage for all citizens (apart from South Africa). At the same time however, healthcare expenditures in the US total over 15% of the GDP, which is greater than any other developed country.

Most people in the US obtain insurance through their employer or on their own. Unfortunately almost 17% of the population are uninsured and have to pay upfront which leads to delay in medical care, missed tests, treatments and follow-up. Almost 20% of the uninsured population is able to afford insurance, almost 25% are eligible for public coverage, and the rest (56%) need financial assistance (8.9% of the US population).

Private Health Insurance:

There are over 1000 private health insurance companies and most offer a fee-for-service insurance plan (with higher premiums) and at usually more than one type of managed care view (health care delivery system with restrictions on provide choice and referrals, and with lower premiums, eg HMO, PPO, and POS). Some insurance plans cover medications while others do not. Cost-sharing (co-pays and deductibles) is also variable. 60% of the population get insurance from employers, while just above 9% acquire their own.

Of the many insurance providers, Blue Cross/Blue Shield is a nonprofit carrier that is regulated by insurance agencies in each state. It is an insurance provider for 30 %-50% of working people in the US. Blue Cross caters to hospital costs, while Blue Shield pays for medical tests.

Government-funded Insurance:

Almost 30% of the population is covered by public health care, much lower than other developed nations.

Medicare is provided by the Federal government (through social security) and is for those >65 yo regardless of income and people of any age with chronic disabilities or debilitating illnesses. It covers inpatient hospital costs, home health care, nursing home care for up to 3 months post-hospitalization, hospice care, dialysis, physical therapy, laboratory tests, outpatient care, physician bills, ambulance service and medical equipment. Note that the latter 7 services listed are optional and have a 20% copayment and at least a $100 deductible.

Medicaid is managed by both the federal and area governments. Eligible people include those with very low income (indigent) except childless adults, with 1/3 of the medicaid budget allocated to nursing home care for indigent elderly people. It also provides for inpatient and outpatient hospital costs, physician bills, home health care, hospice care, laboratory tests, dialysis, medication and very importantly long-term nursing care that is not funded by medicare.

In addition, the Department of Veteran Affairs directly provides health care to injured U.S. military veterans and current servicemen and women through a nationwide network of government hospitals (non-injured veterans are often not covered). It baiscally offers extremely affordable and sometimes free care to veterans

Other public systems include S-CHIP: The State Children’s Insurance Program (S-CHIP) covers children whose familes make too much income to qualify for Medicaid but have too little to engage private health insurance.

Although many states have discussed an overhaul of the US health system, only a few states have really attempted to provide universal health care coverage, eg Minnesota and Massachusetts (Massachusetts 2006 Health Reform Statute). Other US states (in particular New Jersey) help to cover many people (but not all) by reimbursing hospitals and other health-care providers using what is generally characterized as a charity care scheme.

Charity and Free Clinic facilities:

These centers offer healthcare for free or for a small fee and generally limited to those with lower income and no health insurance, including those not eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. They primarily treat acute, non-emergency conditions and some primary care for prevention and chronic conditions. There are a few that have pharmacies and dental services.

The staff are usually volunteer healthcare professionals and the facilities rely heavily on private donations, foundations, the United Way, and local governments. There have been some student-run clinics (eg Stanford’s Arbor Clinic, and San Jose’s Pacific Free clinic) that provide for the underserved community and help provide training for medical students.
The Bureau of Primary Health Care is a location that a will help you find a clinic for medical care, even if you are lacking medical insurance or money.

CA: Berkeley Free Clinic, Haight-Ashbury free clinic (SF), Los Angeles free clinichttp://www.rotacare.org/ (SF Bay Area), Free Clinic of Simi Valley
VA: Harrisonburg Rockingham Free Clinic, NY: Free clinics in New York city, NYC: EHHOP – Free Clinic in El Barrio, New York City,
OR: North By Northeast Community Health Center

References

Fadem, B. High Yield Behavioural Science (2001). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

http://www.amsa.org/uhc/HealthCareSystemOverview.pdf

http://www.healthaffairs.org/RWJ/Dubay2.pdf

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/usernote/usernote3-21rev.html

http://usliberals.about.com/od/healthcare/i/MassHealthIns.htm

http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/eligibility/epg_all.asp

http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-healthcare.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_clinic
For extra resources

All shrimp business owners, whether they bear cafés or itsy-bitsy newsstands, need insurance of some type or another. In today’s world of unfounded lawsuits and a general prevailing atmosphere of “I’ll grasp whatever I can from whomever I can”, this is a necessity.

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It is distinguished to ticket that Business Owner’s Policies (BOPs) do NOT shroud professional liability, automobile insurance, Workers Compensation or health and disability insurance. You’ll require separate insurance policies for coverage of employees, vehicles, and other assorted services.

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If many of your customers deal with you through a single employee, Key Employee Life Insurance may be for you. This is designed to insure losses that a caused by the death of a key employee, such as your manager. When suppliers, customers, and the upper management all converge to collect information from one person, you would contemplate this person a key employee. If this person were to become disabled or to die, Key Employee Life Insurance compensates the business against notable losses that would result. Again, this is specialty coverage, so ask your broker about it.

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All exiguous business owners, whether they beget cafés or puny newsstands, need insurance of some type or another. In today’s world of untrue lawsuits and a general prevailing atmosphere of “I’ll engage whatever I can from whomever I can”, this is a necessity.

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This being said, it is very well-known to shop around for your policies. Every company has different policies and prices, with different inclusions and exclusions. Finding one to suit your business can be a nightmare. Most itsy-bitsy business owners consume some variation of a Business Owner’s Policy, a group of three types of protection, which is sterling, and useful for almost every possible type of microscopic business. A breakdown of the three types is included below.

Foremost is Property Insurance. Property Insurance is for buildings that you conduct your business in, an example being the workshop of a furniture-refinishing business. This can include fire, break-in, theft, and any number of other factors, and can be customized with your insurance broker. It is very considerable to ticket that several destructive occurrences are not usually covered.

Flood injure is not covered, and should be looked into as a separate policy if your business is located in a flood dumb. Earthquakes are not covered either, as a general rule, though some coverage may be purchased as an extra addition, if requested. Lastly, due to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, only businesses that recall optional terrorism coverage are covered from losses originating from a terrorist attack.

Secondly, we have Business Interruption Insurance, which covers costs associated with a disruption of the running of your business, such as a fire in your critical business situation. Such a policy may or may not conceal the costs of operating at a temporary region. Again, you should check with your insurance broker.

Lastly, but perhaps most importantly in our society, is Liability Insurance. This covers the lawful responsibility for wound that your company may cause to their customers or the general public. This injure is a result of actions or inactions of you or your employees do in your business operations that cause bodily injury or property afflict from expend of your products and/or services.

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For professionals, additional coverage is required in the case of a product they have created not meeting the requirements of their particular trade. For example, a mason who builds a wall, only to have it collapse within the year due to bad building would require additional coverage. Professionals are expected to have training, both practical and academic, in their field, and be able to originate their jobs according to the standards of their industry. Failure to produce in such a fashion can result in being held responsible for and damages to persons or property in a court of law.

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