The gender gap in NH.
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The gender gap in NH.
| Sat, 09-29-2012 - 9:03am |
Try again... the gender gap in NH. Men favour Romney by 7, women favour Obama by 17.
When we received the right to vote almost 100 years ago, men wondered what it would mean. They are about to find out.
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I grant you that we could well find ourselves with a shortage of health care providers.
But maybe not. The best healers don't see money or riches as needful. One of the ironies of a capitalist society, is it not, that we predicate wealth or remuneration as being the only worthwhile reward for expended effort?
BTW, "bizarro" world has not come to pass, though some have intimated (wrongly) that the issue of hospital re-admission is a defacto intent to ration health care.
In case you hadn't noticed, "basic supply and demand" left the health care building long ago.....and ACA had nothing to do with it. Insurance did. When people became separated from the cost of the care they received and/or their employers picked up the insurance premium tab, it was only a matter of "when", not "if" health care costs skyrocketed.
Really doesn't matter if it is a scare tactic or not. Seems that the left just doesn't want to face the facts, so they name call.
It's basic supply and demand. What do you think will be the effect of cutting pay to doctors, and adding 30 million people to the healthcare system? In what bizarro world would that not lead to more and more people denied care?
Ever look at what private insurers do?
This is classic GOP scare tactics, oldies but goodies.
Single women are the single most powerful group in this country, but they traditionally don't vote in great numbers. That looks like a change this year, at least in this state.
Dealth panels? You mean like how insurers make decisions every day about someone's care? Oh, but that's okay, free enterprise and all. Actually, it isn't okay either way, and that is where left differs from right.
And funny, crickets sang unhindered for eight years, not a peep from the right on deficits. Obama wins, has to clean up the total mess left by Republicans and the right whined up a storm.
The death panels rhetoric is meant to scare, rather than inform. Do you truly think that care isn't already meted out, with an eye to the bottom line, by insurance companies? It was before ACA and it will be again if ACA is ever overturned. So.....your "rose" isn't a governmental rose, it's also a private enterprise "rose". Ooops, an inconvenient truth
Leonard Pitts wrote a column I found to be right on the money: http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/07/04/opinion/as-facts-die-theyre-reborn-as-delusional-dogma.html His column could have pertained to any number of issues, on both sides of the ideological fence. Wrote PItts, ".....the point is the construction and maintenance of an alternate narrative designed to enhance and exploit the receiver’s fears, his or her sense of prerogatives, entitlement, propriety and morality under siege from outside forces."
You entirely missed the point about hospitals readmitting patients: "The federal government wants hospitals to be more like Denver Health, which doesn't have to readmit many patients. Dr. Thomas MacKenzie, the chief of quality at Denver Health, says a big reason is because the hospital is able to help patients get follow-up care once they leave." http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/10/03/162168140/medicare-dings-hospitals-for-too-many-repeat-customers Moreover, given the uptick in antibiotic resistent bugs and the high probability of medical error, I submit that getting out of a hospital ASAP is probably in a patient's best interest.
Spare us the Randian cant of "statism". Hate to point out the obvious, but there's an inherent contradiction in assuming that women would back the concept when......wait for it...... Ayn Rand was a woman and railed at length against any bulwark protection from social Darwinism.
As for a bankrupt country, it would seem that the female gender doesn't hold a monopoly on spending without consideration for income. Or are you saying that George W. Bush is a dyke? Just wondering........
The real story seems that ACA is attacking a long known problem of inconsistent care of medicare patients and excessive rates of readmission. Its intent is to improve quality while also trying to save taxpayers money. Consumer advocates say Medicare's nudge to hospitals is long overdue and not nearly stiff enough. I believe the law encourages quality care to prevent the need for readmission. Oh, the horror!
Call them what you want, but I don't think they're going to go away until they actually go away. Now the latest is that Obamacare will fine hospitals for some patients that return within 30 days. So, they want to encourage them to stay home and die? A rose by any other name...
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