[Ipg-smz] GoFundMe and Medical care

Thu Jun 27 19:22:15 UTC 2019

I always look to Walmart for cues on how to treat employees or give them
benefits. What a joke.

Say what you want about healthcare in Europe and Canada. I'm a dual
citizen. I've landed in the ER here and my native country in the same year.
One instance cost well over $2,000 and the other under $200. I'll let you
guess which was which.

Healthcare coverage that hinges on whether you're employed is, simply put,
stupid.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:33 PM Kishore Jethanandani <
kishorejethanandani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Employers for too long have delegated healthcare to the HR department with
> disastrous consequences. CEOs have been amiss in taking a strategic
> approach to cost control. Under ERISA, they have a fiduciary responsibility
> to provide the best care for their employees but they are conspicuously in
> breach of the law. So some people are preparing a lawsuit to take them on.
>
> American employers are too smart to fall for the fairy tales from Europe
> and Canada about universal healthcare. They are starting to take matters in
> their hands and lower costs by innovation. Not the ridiculous top-down
> introduction of EMRs that has caused nothing but grief to doctors and
> patients. Innovation that provides better value for money.
>
>
> https://www.employeebenefitadviser.com/news/walmart-boeing-facebook-partner-to-innovate-healthcare?fbclid=IwAR2Dy_BHIbJJFtU6_mT6GjI5L6pCMcBadn6D8Cicwdv97Zm3J1C5U2376bk&regconf=1
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:40 AM Dana Blankenhorn <
> danablankenhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The whole question of health care is, in the end, about technology and
>> the ends to which it will be put.
>>
>> Universal health care is possible thanks to technology that makes quick
>> diagnosis and treatment of most conditions efficient. Many countries have
>> used this to extend health care coverage across their populations, focusing
>> on saving money for the whole and letting technology advances push
>> lifespans forward on their own, with government (in the form of expert
>> panels) deciding when new treatments will become available.
>>
>> The U.S. has chosen another path. We do have a system whose aim is to
>> give simplified health care services to a defined set of people at the
>> lowest possible cost. That's the Veteran's Administration. But for the most
>> part, we've treated life the way China treats speech, as something to be
>> given only to the economically privileged, through an eye dropper.
>>
>> Most of us have covered technologies, like open source and Electronic
>> Health Records, that can deliver reliable health care, based on data, to
>> every citizen. But so far our medical industries, which consume nearly
>> one-fifth of our GDP, have successfully resisted the implementation of
>> money saving technology, with the political argument that life is a
>> privilege and not a right. (Not going into that here. Sorry.)
>>
>> As a business reporter, I'm more interested in how long businesses will
>> continue to bear this burden. It costs twice as much for my wife's employer
>> to cover her basic health needs through insurance than it costs their
>> European competitors. Half. That's a "tax" businesses do indeed pay.
>> They've tried to miminize this in many ways, but throughout this decade
>> resistance from the medical industries has kept them from making much
>> progress.
>>
>> How long before business throws in its hand and demands our system
>> replicate that of our economic competitors? That's a story. I'm only sorry
>> I'm not following it as closely as I might any more.
>>
>> Dana Blankenhorn
>> http://www.danablankenhorn.com
>> http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/
>> https://www.kiplinger.com/fronts/archive/bios/index.html?bylineID=631
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>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:41 AM Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <sjvn at vna1.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Kishore Jethanandani <kishorejethanandani at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> > Also, GoFundMe does a lot of funding for patients who are unable to
>>> pay for
>>> > treatments
>>> >
>>> While it can help some people, it helps a lot if you have a good story
>>> and you know how to sell it.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-perverse-logic-of-gofundme-health-care
>>>
>>> This is Not how health care should work.
>>>
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