[NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?

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If your son-in-law has transferable skills, I would recommend that he look for another job.? If he able to find one where he can "renew" his insurance coverage limits.? It is a drastic solution, but it will provide the family with additional coverage.? Before the move, ascertain the period the family would have before he would be a permanent employee and the new coverage would be established.

I agree that the cap should be lifted to at least $5 mil.? There are a lot of procedures, options for healthy lives which make a lot of people bump up on the coverage ceilings.


Winifred Carson-Smith, Esq.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Mittman <dmittman at comcast.net>
To: NP Info <npinfo at nurse.net>
Sent: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 5:58 pm
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?


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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