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  1. Liberals and disability rights: Why don't they get it?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, it can happen any place as I did mention group homes as well. This post had nothing to do with "Male Caregivers", so the Jeddi mind trick does nothing for a debate either. I believe focusing on...

  2. NHS versus Kaiser Permanente in California

    kitkat24 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7330/135 Objective: To compare the costs and performance of the NHS with those of an integrated system for financing and delivery health services...

  3. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Australia's Public Health Care System The following 'typical' patient case descriptions attempt to illustrate how Australia's healthcare system is beginning to fail the average Australian in not...

  4. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    'I would not trust my dog, let alone my mother, to many nurses' (Filed: 29/11/2003) Millions of pounds are being pumped into our hospitals - so why are they in such chaos? For the past 11 months,...

  5. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fergus I do read your posts. I believe that is your honest opinion about your system. There are too many other views that say that indeed there are problems with care and who dictates that care....

  6. Liberals and disability rights: Why don't they get it?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ktwlpn, Wow, I didn't see this post. I must respond. You said: The disabled historically confuse their right to live with any needed assitance for free with the terminally ill person's right to...

  7. Blame Congress for HMO's

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nurse Hardee, Clearly you do not remember or have not read my other posts. I think it is a funny notion to believe that our HMO's are any worse than Universal Care. Here is a difference: I believe...

  8. Liberals and disability rights: Why don't they get it?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Now, where do I change my son's incontinent pad at the Mall ? :)

  9. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So, as this article points out in relationship to your comments about public health: Public health is mostly as preventative care. Supposedly your arguement suggests that national health care is...

  10. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Would somebody like to comment about the articles on NHS versus US ? Comment specifically about this part: Which brings up my other pet peeve about nationalized health plans proposed for the United...

  11. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    US surgery safer than under NHS By Thair Shaikh (Filed: 07/09/2003) Patients who have major operations on the National Health Service are four times more likely to die than Americans undergoing such...

  12. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Survival Rates in the British NHS vs. U.S. Hospitals By Brian Carnell Friday, November 28, 2003 There is some support in the United States for "solving" America's health care problems with a state-run...

  13. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I just don't get it? That seems a bit presumptuous. I believe part of what you say is true. How much more of taxpayers money do you want? How much should we have to pay? Why won't anybody answer...

  14. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Who's on 4th? Minnesotans stuck paying the 4th highest tax burden in the nation Author: David Strom July 26, 2002 PLYMOUTH--Minnesotans may have been told that their tax burdens have been going...

  15. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Minnesota Needs A Taxpayers Bill of Rights! In 1992, the state of Colorado enacted the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). TABOR is a constitutional limit on government growth at both the state and...

  16. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Check your state: What percent of the total insurance premium do you pay versus your employer?...

  17. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Minnesota: Percent of Private Sector Establishments That Offer Health Insurance to Employees, 2001 Percent of Private Sector Establishments That Offer Health Insurance to Employees, 2001 Click...

  18. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I do have empathy with folks that are employed but do not have insurance offered to them, or have it offered at a cost that is unmanagable due to their low income status such as $5.00 per hour or...

  19. Who are the Uninsured?

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nursehardee, I sure hope you weren't insinuating my guppieness? Is guppieness a word? Anyway, I would imagine that most of the posters have a higher income than me. I certainly am not in a higher...

  20. Blame Congress for HMO's

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am unfamiliar with Australia's UHC system. I have mostly focused my information gathering on my neighbors to the north. Do you know if the negative aspects to your system are similar to the...

  21. Blame Congress for HMO's

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I honestly do not have the answers. My interest in universal healthcare, single-payer healthcare, national healthcare etc has evolved out of last semester at college and this semester at college. My...

  22. 17 Medicare Facts:

    kitkat24 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    17 Medicare Facts * * Medicare is essentially compulsory. People who refuse to join Medicare Part A are not allowed to receive their earned Social Security benefits. * Medicare patients cannot pay...

  23. Blame Congress for HMO's

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fergus, If the US was to switch to a univeral healthcare, it would need to be because it is far superior to what we currently have. From what I read, it is not any better. We would be switching one...

  24. Blame Congress for HMO's

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fergus, OK, so that is a personal representation of how HMO's delayed your care. I now have endless personal representation of how Canada's system of healthcare has caused deaths from queing and...

  25. 17 Medicare Facts:

    kitkat24 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes... And what people do not realize is what a problem that Medicare is, well except for the nurses that are required to work under Medicare regulations, rules, and restrictions. Medicare is an...