Health Care Article From W.Post

OnTheEdge

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... r=facebook

TriumphantAngel

is your keyboard broken? please don't just post a link without comment, it's lazy and annoying. what's your point?

TriumphantAngel

so i can only assume your problem is with the fact Lewin Group is owned by United Health Group?

So what? This news article you provided is 6 weeks old. did you bother to educate yourself about the Lewin group apart from reading one article?

If you did, i'm sure you would be fully aware the Lewin Group was very outspoken about the benefits of providing a single payer system for california. They strongly promoted it, stressing major cost savings.

http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/si ... california

The California Health Insurance Reliability Act is based on a model released in January 2005 by the Lewin Group, an independent health care analysis firm. It would provide all state residents with full coverage of medical, dental, vision, and hospitalization services, and pharmaceutical benefits, through a statewide, single payer system.
The Lewin Group study was commissioned by California Health and Human Services, in accordance with a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that required a study of universal health coverage options. Nine proposals were studied - three single payer models and six proposals that increase coverage through public program expansions, employer incentives, or combination approaches.

The study was presented at the state capitol in 2002. John Shiels of the Lewin Group concluded the presentation by saying, "One of the major claims of the single payer advocates for a long time has been that we could cover more people, for more services, for less money. Our study is showing that, for these very carefully designed plans, that's true. To the best of our ability to estimate it, that's true."

OnTheEdge

TriumphantAngel wrote:

is your keyboard broken? please don't just post a link without comment, it's lazy and annoying. what's your point?

just sharing an article...if it's lazy and annoying.....oh well, deal with it.

Byrnzie

TriumphantAngel wrote:

is your keyboard broken? please don't just post a link without comment, it's lazy and annoying. what's your point?

:P

OnTheEdge

TriumphantAngel wrote:

so i can only assume your problem is with the fact Lewin Group is owned by United Health Group?

So what? This news article you provided is 6 weeks old. did you bother to educate yourself about the Lewin group apart from reading one article?

If you did, i'm sure you would be fully aware the Lewin Group was very outspoken about the benefits of providing a single payer system for california. They strongly promoted it, stressing major cost savings.

http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/si ... california

The California Health Insurance Reliability Act is based on a model released in January 2005 by the Lewin Group, an independent health care analysis firm. It would provide all state residents with full coverage of medical, dental, vision, and hospitalization services, and pharmaceutical benefits, through a statewide, single payer system.
The Lewin Group study was commissioned by California Health and Human Services, in accordance with a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that required a study of universal health coverage options. Nine proposals were studied - three single payer models and six proposals that increase coverage through public program expansions, employer incentives, or combination approaches.

The study was presented at the state capitol in 2002. John Shiels of the Lewin Group concluded the presentation by saying, "One of the major claims of the single payer advocates for a long time has been that we could cover more people, for more services, for less money. Our study is showing that, for these very carefully designed plans, that's true. To the best of our ability to estimate it, that's true."

why is everybody on here so fucking judgemental...if you want to read it fine...if you don't want to read it don't.....if you've already read it ignore it....how do you know I have a problem with anything? how do you know people haven't read it yet and would like to read it?

TriumphantAngel

mb262200 wrote:

TriumphantAngel wrote:

is your keyboard broken? please don't just post a link without comment, it's lazy and annoying. what's your point?

just sharing an article...if it's lazy and annoying.....oh well, deal with it.

i'm sorry if it that came across harsh. it honestly is annoying because it's hard to know where you stand if you have no comment about the article. for all i know you could feel the same as me, and i'm just wasting my time giving you information. make sense?

OnTheEdge

mb262200 wrote:

TriumphantAngel wrote:

so i can only assume your problem is with the fact Lewin Group is owned by United Health Group?

So what? This news article you provided is 6 weeks old. did you bother to educate yourself about the Lewin group apart from reading one article?

If you did, i'm sure you would be fully aware the Lewin Group was very outspoken about the benefits of providing a single payer system for california. They strongly promoted it, stressing major cost savings.

http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/si ... california

The California Health Insurance Reliability Act is based on a model released in January 2005 by the Lewin Group, an independent health care analysis firm. It would provide all state residents with full coverage of medical, dental, vision, and hospitalization services, and pharmaceutical benefits, through a statewide, single payer system.
The Lewin Group study was commissioned by California Health and Human Services, in accordance with a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that required a study of universal health coverage options. Nine proposals were studied - three single payer models and six proposals that increase coverage through public program expansions, employer incentives, or combination approaches.

The study was presented at the state capitol in 2002. John Shiels of the Lewin Group concluded the presentation by saying, "One of the major claims of the single payer advocates for a long time has been that we could cover more people, for more services, for less money. Our study is showing that, for these very carefully designed plans, that's true. To the best of our ability to estimate it, that's true."

why is everybody on here so fucking judgemental...if you want to read it fine...if you don't want to read it don't.....if you've already read it ignore it....how do you know I have a problem with anything? how do you know people haven't read it yet and would like to read it?

on another note thank you for the information.

TriumphantAngel

mb262200 wrote:

mb262200 wrote:

TriumphantAngel wrote:

so i can only assume your problem is with the fact Lewin Group is owned by United Health Group?

So what? This news article you provided is 6 weeks old. did you bother to educate yourself about the Lewin group apart from reading one article?

If you did, i'm sure you would be fully aware the Lewin Group was very outspoken about the benefits of providing a single payer system for california. They strongly promoted it, stressing major cost savings.

http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/si ... california

The California Health Insurance Reliability Act is based on a model released in January 2005 by the Lewin Group, an independent health care analysis firm. It would provide all state residents with full coverage of medical, dental, vision, and hospitalization services, and pharmaceutical benefits, through a statewide, single payer system.
The Lewin Group study was commissioned by California Health and Human Services, in accordance with a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that required a study of universal health coverage options. Nine proposals were studied - three single payer models and six proposals that increase coverage through public program expansions, employer incentives, or combination approaches.

The study was presented at the state capitol in 2002. John Shiels of the Lewin Group concluded the presentation by saying, "One of the major claims of the single payer advocates for a long time has been that we could cover more people, for more services, for less money. Our study is showing that, for these very carefully designed plans, that's true. To the best of our ability to estimate it, that's true."

why is everybody on here so fucking judgemental...if you want to read it fine...if you don't want to read it don't.....if you've already read it ignore it....how do you know I have a problem with anything? how do you know people haven't read it yet and would like to read it?

on another note thank you for the information.

that's ok, you're welcome.

peace.

OnTheEdge

The only thing that really caught my attention in this article is the section stating that if you have a good private health care plan NOW...you're probably going to lose it. Thought people might be interested in reading that, and in return, maybe adding more information, which as a result...we all learn a little more. Enough with the tunnel vision.

Cosmo

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5781173/15139258

OnTheEdge

Cosmo wrote:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5781173/15139258

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