[NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?

[David Mittman]

Marilyn: Thank you, that's very sweet.
I'll tell you now, he will be very special.
Dave


On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Marilyn Dean wrote:

> Speaking of broken. Early in Feb our son and daughter-in-law had a  
> premie
> (24 weeks gestation-1# 8.9 oz). Birth date Feb 5th and discharge  
> date May
> 25th. There is a 2 million dollar limit on their group BC/BS policy  
> and the
> hospital bill alone was 997,000.00. The neonatologist was charging  
> 2,200.00
> per day and there were other people involved including a pediatric
> cardiologist (closed his PDA), a pediatric nephrologist (has medullary
> calcinosis thought to be from an acute tubular necrosis related to  
> the meds
> they tried to use to close the PDA, and antibiotics). Pretty scarey  
> time all
> the way around and we are happy to report that he is now over 11  
> pounds,
> smiling and physically very strong. Hopefully the cognitive  
> development will
> be normal, but they suggest it takes a couple years to know this. We  
> are
> thankful for all the wonderful care he received and without it we  
> probably
> wouldn't have this beautiful little boy. If he turns out anything  
> like Dave
> Mittman who wrote at the time that he was a premie, it will be a  
> success
> story all the way around.
> Anyway, the only thing I can do is hope that the group plan will  
> increase
> their lifetime max. I know my own recently went to 5 million.
> Marilyn Dean (who today is happy to report we are heading out to  
> Washington
> state to a vacation house where we will have all our kids and  
> grandkids in
> one place for a couple of days. Can't wait to see the grandchildren  
> playing
> together and of course see baby Andrew again)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net]On
> Behalf Of David Mittman
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:47 AM
> To: NP Info
> Subject: Re: [NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?
>
>
> Never said that. What I do know is by every measurement the system is
> very broken. I don't know who can fix. I know how I would start but
> it's a tough bind. Someone has to start fixing.
> Dave
>
> On Aug 1, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Joanne DaCunha wrote:
>
>> And, you think the government can fix that?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On
>> Behalf Of David Mittman
>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:45 PM
>> To: ACC; NP Info; paforum at mc.duke.edu
>> Subject: [NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?
>>
>> I pay close to $18,000 a year in after tax dollars for the worst
>> health
>> care coverage I have ever had.
>>
>> July 30, 2008, 9:06 am
>> Why McCain Is the Radical on Health
>> Posted by Jacob Goldstein
>> John McCain "is proposing the most fundamental health-care reform" of
>> the presidential campaign, a McCain adviser argues in an op-ed in  
>> this
>> morning's WSJ.
>>
>> This struck us as a rather surprising argument, given that Barack
>> Obama's proposal includes mandating insurance for all children and
>> creating a national public insurance program to cover those who don't
>> have access to insurance through their employers.
>>
>> The op-ed, John C. Goodman of the National Center for Policy  
>> Analysis,
>> focuses on McCain's proposed changes to the tax code, which  
>> constitute
>> the main thrust of his health plan.
>>
>> Goodman writes that the current system is "extremely arbitrary,"
>> because it allows employers to pay for health insurance with pre-tax
>> dollars, but doesn't extend that break to the growing number of  
>> people
>> whose employers don't provide insurance.
>>
>> McCain's plan would get rid of the tax break for employer-sponsored
>> insurance, and replace it with a fixed insurance tax credit - $2,500
>> for
>> individuals, $5,000 for families - that people could use whether or
>> not
>> they get their insurance through work.
>>
>> This would create a "fairer, more efficient system with a much better
>> chance of insuring the uninsured and controlling health costs at the
>> same time," Goodman argues.
>>
>>
>>
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