ZASHAGALKA RN

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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Would I like the gov't to ensure that the health products and treatments that I use are safe and effective? Yes. Do I want some lobbyist-inspired gov't geek to decide if the gov't can afford to treat...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, but Congress can degree that the law of gravity is repealed until they are blue in the face and they aren't going to be floating anytime soon. Same is true with the law of supply and demand. It...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I said nothing about completely unregulated care. Gov't has its place. That place is just not being the bagman for Big Lobby and Big Insurance. ~faith,
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    what religious view have to do with gov't health care is that many people believe that, to give away your freedom to the gov't is a form of charity. it is not. you say so yourself, it's not fair....
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For example, the law of supply and demand. Gov't restricted health care violates that law. The Free market does not. Health care is not exempt. Congress cannot repeal it. Even if they want to. Even if...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    1. market exchange: somebody has a product. So do you. You exchange by mutual agreement. You provide YOUR service in exchange for theirs. You both need with the other has and both have an excess of...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    your argument has a flaw. i have not argued in favor of the current system instead of gov't restricted care. because the gov't created the current system with employer subsidies that put real choice...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My point is that the whole argument that underpins government entitlement is tragically flawed. In terms of health care, it can be summed up as follows: Health care is a right. No, it is not. 1....
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I want to make a key point. Part of this problem is behavioral. People used to live within their means and save for emergencies. PART of the reason why things have changed is because the government...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The NY Times article above IS telling. It supports your viewpoint that "topping up" to better care is all too routine. It also points out that the NHS officially does not allow mixing private and NHS...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I was actually commenting about the WAY gov't restricts health care with cost effectiveness analysis. The UK articles were just examples. If, however, you don't approve of my source, then how about...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    With each of these, there IS a profit model and/or a behavioral change that SHOULD be expected. 1. If you don't build in a floodplain, then you don't need flood insurance. All the gov't does by...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.aapsonline.org/newsletters/july05.htm "45-year-old Leslie Burke is suing for the right to receive food and water via a feeding tube if his neurologic disease renders him unable to swallow."...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There is a different frame of reference here. YOU think 18 weeks/4 weeks is great because it's a REDUCTION in wait times. For me, that would be an unfathomable wait. In addition, smoking/obese...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The problem is that both the insurance companies AND the pharmaceuticals depend upon gov't to protect them from true competition. It would be the pot calling the kettle black for either to demand of...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Long post, I'm not doing "talking points" here: I think it IS fair for drug producers to have a season of patent protection and to "charge what they want". I agree, so long as YOU aren't paying the...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But that's the WHOLE ISSUE. The whole point of 'cost effective analysis' is to decide how many people it is acceptable to have die rather than use resources on this treatment, or that. THIS was my...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Once we get prices controlled by returning to the only proven way to do so, market exchange of services, then, AND ONLY THEN, it makes sense to subsidize those that need help. The first priority is...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1722284.ece Govt defends NHS ban on smokers and obese "A ban on smokers and the obese getting certain NHS treatments in some parts of the...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3056691.ece NHS threat to halt care for cancer patient "A WOMAN will be denied free National Health Service treatment for breast cancer if...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The study presents its respondents with a best case situation on how to spend a limited budget on colon screening: $200,000 to cover everybody and save 1,000 lives or preform a better test that cost...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Cost effectiveness analysis is in effect, how to ration care. I want to give an example because I want to comment on it. I want to discuss a study. First, I'll explain the study in this post and then,...
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    Government Restricted Health Care - How Much is Your Life Really Worth?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Easy. Get the gov't out of the business of protecting the markets of private insurance. The free market depends on customers. All customers. Will those with pre-existing conditions be treated as...
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    When will they change the name???

    ZASHAGALKA replied to hand2cut's topic in Men in Nursing

    Equally proud to be an RN, a nurse, or a "male nurse". Honestly, "male nurse" doesn't bother me at all. I find it more descriptive than segregative. Let's face it, at 6% of the nursing population, we...
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    How long in ICU before you felt comfortable?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to racing-mom4's topic in MICU, SICU

    Took me 3 yrs in ICU to really feel comfortable, and I had 3 yrs experience before I came to ICU. It's a learning curve. The steepness of that curve DOES level off over time. The trick is learning, as...