10. โข III. The New Health Care Legislation
โ over a 100 different small changes, its like putting bandaids, no drastic change
โ does not make docs gov employees
A. What will happen this year?
โข adults with pre existing illness will get insurance for the first time
โข this is from a federally funded high risk pool
โข out of pocket = 6k for individuals and 12 k for families
โข kids health insurance coverage will be expanded (cannot deny kids cz of health problems)
โข young people can be covered under parentโs plan through 26 yrs old
โข expanded coverage = insurance companies can no longer put yearly or lifetime limits for
chronic diseases
โข the drug donut hole will be reduced (give 250 dollar rebate to these people )
B. What will happen in 2014?
โข state based insurance for people who do not have insurance from employers
โข premiums will not be based on your health, just your age
โข funded jointly by states and the federal government
โข there will be a requirement for health insurance for everyone from a private profit making
private health insurance companies
โข no limitations on what insurance companies can charge
โข government will provide tax credits to subsidize buying of health insurance
โข this subsidiary will cost 450 billion dollars over 10 years
11. C. Whatโs the new law going to cost me?
C. lots of people will get insurance that do not have this
D. they want to increase taxes for the rich - not gonna happen
E. healthier people will pay more - will happen
F. reduce the income of healthcare providers - they are working on
that, but its not gonna help as much
G. you will be fined if you do not buy insurance
H. employers will be taxed more if they provide more that 27,000
dollars per year in insurance
I. they will cut medicare by 400 billion
D. What does this reform fail to fix?
1) there is nothing in the bill to controll cost, so everyone can charge
as much as they want, so the health insurance companies did
not fight it
2)
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12. II. Canada
A. Overview
โข almost all healthcare systems are non profit separate from the government
โข reformed in 1961 = canadian national health insurance system
โข government, the single source of health insurance in canada
โข canadians spend more days in the hospital than US
โข but cuts on primary care
โข it is portable, so you can use your healthcare in other provinces
โข each hospital is given a budget limit
โข theres no insurance companies to ration care, doctors decide that!
โข theres no detailed billing for medical procedures
โข myth = canadian gov does not interfere with the choice of doctors
โข canada limits tertiary care like open heart surgeries, mriโs etc and there are long waits
B. Provincial insurance coverage
13. C. Myths about the Canadian health care system
1. National health insurance leads to more
bureaucratic red-tape and higher administrative
costs
2. NHI interferes with doctor-patient relationship
3. NHI leads to long waits for treatment
14. 4. NHI lowers quality of medical care
5. NHI leads to rationing
6. NHI causes exodus of physicians
7. lower infant mortality and longer life span
8. each province has an elected health officials so if
you do not like the care you are getting, you can
vote him out
9. physicians are payed pretty well but not as well
as the US doctors
10.
15. D. Summary
โข if you value easier availibility to high care you like us
โข this is the land of rich people
โข if you calue the average effectiveness and over all health care plans
and life span you love canada
โข 80% people in canada are satisfied wit the insurance as compared to
10 in the US
E. Could we import the Canadian system in US?
โข not really
โข we do not trust the government to do it right
โข some people think the private, for profit care is the way to go cz they
can get what they want
โข powerful lobying groups
โข failure of the free marked in medical care
โข there would never be a political concensus
16. Stephen Hansell, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Institute for Health Research
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~shansell
shansell@rci.rutgers.edu
732-445-4740