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Reasons For Why US Health Care Reform Is Needed

1. Due to the Lack of Health Coverage every year, over 10,000 U.S citizens faces death: It is total moral issue, if you are against a health care reform then it means that you don’t value for the life of thousands of Americans. 2. There are 450,000 numbers of doctors who supports Health Insurance Reform: In lot of interviews it is seen that the doctors complain about the problems associated to get the private health insurance companies to cover the care needed for the patients. The doctors favor the health care reforms. So who should you listen to? The doctors who want to heal us or the health insurance companies who just want to make money and some politician who just want to make money out of it. 3. To keep the growing cost under control: Presently, the U.S. spends a lot on health care than any other country in the world but still it not satisfied results in return despite spending so much money. So clearly U.S needs to do something to keep the cost under control which can b

Impact Of Health Insurance Reform On Ohio Explains White House Report

Washington: A report was released on 23rd of November by the White House projects about the 1.4 million Ohioans who does not have the health insurance and the 533,000 who are insured through non-group plans could get the affordable coverage as a result of health result reform. Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary released the report, Health Insurance Reform and Ohio: The Case for Change is now available on the web as a part of the White House push for the insurance reform in Congress. “Families, businesses and seniors are all suffering under the health care status quo,” Sebelius said. “Our new reports demonstrate how the health insurance reform will improve health care for all Americans.” Some 942,000 residents of Ohio could qualify for the premium tax credits to help them to purchase health coverage. And 1.8 million citizens in Ohio would be given free medical care and 325,000 seniors would have their brand their brand name drug costs in the Medicare Part D “doughnut

Is Indian Healthcare a Part of The American Dream

Bangalore: Has the Indian healthcare now become the part of American dream? The Cayman government for the set up of a health city in one of its islands has chosen Dr. Devi Shetty from India. He is a pioneer cardiac surgeon and his hospital, Narayana Hrudalaya, offers a low-cost, comprehensive medical care in India. The distance of Cayman Island from Florida is just 52 minutes, whereas replica of health care city in Bangalore will be made there. This will give low-cost healthcare to the American patients, who otherwise find it expensive. The debate on the US health reform is still on the boil and over 50 million of US are not covered by the health insurance, whereas this model will help people in Florida and the neighboring states to go there and get access to health services. “Obama is trying hard for favorable reforms in the sector but it doesn’t look like it is going to get through. The healthcare system in US is advanced and expensive as well. What about people who do not have insu

Lack of Insurance linked to the 17,000 Child Deaths

In United States according to a report from the researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore an estimated 17,000 children have died over two decades because they didn’t have the health insurance Researchers said that the kids who did not have the health insurance were 60% more likely to die in the hospital in compared to the kids who had the insurance. After the adjustment such as of differences as gender and race, still the uninsured kids were 37.8% more likely to die than the kids with the insurance coverage. David C. Chang, co-director of pediatric surgery outcomes research group at Hopkins and a study co-author, said that he could not think of a medical treatment that has such a dramatic impact on the health outcomes the health insurance seemingly does. "This is actually something we as a society can choose to do something about," he said. "It is literally with stroke of somebody's pen, this could be changed." The article was published on 30th

How To Find Affordable Health Insurance Quotes Online

To ask your health agent and request him to send you the estimates of the health insurances for you and your family over the web is one option. You can also get information through the mail. Or you can compile information from different agents. Though technically, this is one way to get multiple health insurance quotes through the internet. But practically speaking, this is not the right way to use the internet. But this way you will not enjoy the benefits involved in the searching for the health insurance estimates on the web. Another option is to visit the health insurance provider’s website and get the estimates. Different websites is designed in different ways. Some of the health insurance companies will simply put the estimates best events on your screen and will leave you to choose the best among them. Whereas, there are some insurance websites those require specific information before providing the estimate. This involves your social security number and other details and the las

According To a Study: Uninsured Trauma Patients More Likely To Die

Tuesday November 17 (Health Day News) - New research says that the Americans without the health insurance are more likely to die after admission to the hospital with trauma injuries. “After admission to hospital, trauma patients can have the worst outcomes based on insurance status,” the author of the study wrote. “This finding warrants more rigorous investigation to determine why such variation in mortality would exist in a system where equivalent carte is not only expected by mandated by law.” Dr. Heather Rosen, from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and some colleague analyzed statistics from the National Trauma Data Bank, which tracked 2.7 million trauma patients admitted to over 900 U.S trauma centers. The researchers looked at 687,091 those were adult and were admitted between 2002 and 2006. Even when researchers tried adjusting the statistics to eliminate the influence of the factors such as age, gender and race that may throw off the results still patie

Health Insurance For Unemployed

When you see the unemployed rates in America, it has increased up to 8.5% in 2009 April as compared to 4.9% of last year. Being a part of that rank is stressful enough but this becomes a major misfortune when you loss out your health insurance. Especially for those people who lost their jobs recently and those who have been insured through an employer for most of their time, they are not really aware there are many options available to prevent them from becoming uninsured. Most people when they become unemployed rely on public health insurance programs. There are many options available for health insurance for the unemployed. You can see some of the health insurance programs offered for unemployed below: Medicaid The Medicaid is a health insurance program which is for eligible families or individuals with low income or resources. This program is funded by both the state and federal governments. In some cases, Medicaid may help those people, who have lost their jobs or have their hour j