OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

National health care sounds good until you ask the question; What kind of care it covers and who can give that care? If it is just the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies directed by the insurance industry, then, no thank you!

I am here in Guayaquil, Ecuador, being treated for stage 4 A Hypopharyngeal cancer at a clinic that is using therapies that are illegal in our country! These treatments have proven to work and are not recognized by the powers that be. I am being cured without the use of either chemotherapy or radiation therapy, which are the only therapies I could receive in Orego, my home state! The doctors there would only guarantee me 5 years and knowing that the first thing that happens with chemotherapy is the destruction of the immune system, I decided to seek alternatives.

We need a knowledgable alternative to a broken health care system!

I LiKE WHAT OBAMA PROPOSES

CHOICES-

KEEP PRIVATE OR GOVT PLAN as OPTION.

email, call, write your congress and senate to support it, please

Setting aside the logistics of government health care, I would like an amendment that every representative and senator be required to use it themselves. If nothing else that should make each side fight more vehemently for what it should involve as they'll have "skin in the game". That principle could be applied to many things.

Too me, the BIG point here is to have a plan for all that a congressman or federal agency employee would think is OK. Believe me, they don't ever have to worry if their doctor is out of plan...

Doesn't have to be nationalized health (I lived in London and participated in their NHS - luckily I wasn't really sick at the time!)but needs to reassure Americans that they will not be in a constant battle with their health care provider to get necessary care, which should include preventative care.

Again, I ask, What kind of care? Congressmen and Senators don't know anything about medicine! I am receiving essential oil IV's and Ozone therapy, both of which are illegal in Oregon.

If all you care about is which doctor gives you Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy then you are covered under this plan. If you want an alternative, you are out of luck!

Just like Daniel Hauser in Minneapolis, who has been ordered by the court to get Chemotherapy and has no alternative! And, the doctors say he only has a 5% chance of servival if he doesn't get that kind of therapy and are a closed book!

Ther must be room for alternative kinds of treatment that at this point are not being considered!

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i highly doubt they will cover illegal care.

and is your care illegal or unapproved?

big difference.

im sure legal alternative care thats proven beneficial AND SAFE will be in the far distance future for all. some insurances cover some already.

BUT YOU SEEM TO BE DO ING SOME DANGEROUS AND UNPROVEN STUFF

ESSENTIAL OILS TAKEN INTERNALLY CAN BE TOXIC AND

ON THE OTHER - seems its QUAcKERY.

Summary and Conclusion

Oxygenation therapists proposed that disease is caused by absence of oxygen and loss of cellular ability to use oxygen for "good energy" metabolism, detoxification, and immune system function. Oxygen therapies are proposed in order to restore the body's ability to produce "good" energy, to "detoxify" metabolic poisons, and to kill invading organisms. However, over the five decades that have passed since this concept was proposed, scientists have shown that:

Anerobic energy metabolism (fermentation) is not the cause of cancer.

Koch's glyoxylide does not exist.

Ingestion, infusion, or injection of hydrogen peroxide cannot re-oxygenate the tissues of the body.

Ozone-treated blood infused during autohemotherapy does not kill AIDS virus in vivo.

Comments that state that federal employees never have to worry if a Dr is on their plan or not ... just shows that people have no idea what federal employees have as health insurance. Many feds have to worry about that! The idea that the Oval Office came up with years ago seems great: give everyone access to the choices the federal employees have. The rates are lower because the volume is high. The best thing: no one can be denied coverage.

I believe that a government-mandated insurance policy is an abuse if monies are going to private industries.

The citizen should not, by law, be coerced into contributing to the profit of a 3rd party.

sobi no one would be mandated as i understand it.

no one is being coerced.

and if you are into hours long waits and student doctors you can choose to go to a county or other government clinic instead of your own doc.

Nobody needs insurance. Only the insurance companies need insurance.

What the people need is health care -- without a bureaucracy between the people and the care.

bad thinking perpetuates bad ideas

Eric gets an A!

I've been in Ecuador for 7 weeks. I came with type 4 A throat cancer and it's gone according to my blood work. No insurance, just wonderful medical knowledge.

Of course the only way to really know if my cancer is gone is with another biopsy. It is being ordered.

so what is this therapy and why is it illegal here? and how did you get it for free in another country?

Dear go2thesun,

First of all, you sound like a doctor protecting your investment. Secondly, I didn't say that this care was free, nor would health care provided by national health insurance be free. We would all be paying for it and still not have a choice of what kind of care we received.

The care I received is illegal because of the laws in Oregon, which prohibit IV therapy, Ozone therapy and these are the very kinds of therapy that have cured me.

I ment to vote for it but you can not change your vote once done.

If the Clintons past single payer health care what would Bush have done with it? bet he would have cut coverage it offered. That is why I do not want single payer.

I would like to share my ideas regarding national health care with you.

I believe that someone such as the Surgeon General or someone else should determine what a basic health plan (driven by public health care policies) should be. Once such a basic plan is determined all health insurance companies will be required to provide the provisions of such plan to any United States citizen. Insurance companies would be allowed to charge whatever price they determined is equitable but they would have to charge all of their customers the same price, though each company would differ in price. Everyone would get a tax credit that would cover most of the cost for buying the basic plan and be required to buy the basic plan before buying any optional health insurance. Along with this basic policy for everyone, the paperwork would be standardized across all insurance companies, hospitals and health care providers.

Since the insurance company has to charge each one of its customers the same price they can advertise the price on radio, television, print advertising creating a competitive market. Since the basic plan is the same, consumers will be able to compare the base rate and optional coverage easier. This would eliminate insurance companies from refusing people for insurance for the basic plan. However, insurance companies could charge accordingly and set their own guidelines for optional insurance. Also government can help the poor with their premiums. The government also should set up an insurance plan for the insurance companies that thay all pay into, so that smaller insurance companies could offer health insurance, so if a insurance company has a person with health cost of over a million dollars thay could collect from the government plan. Also make medicare and mediaid cradle to grave plans so to make insurance companies to keep you healthy for your whole life and not just keeping you healthy till you get on medicare. And to make every one get health insurance give a tax credit to everyone that buys health insurance that will pay for most if not all of the cost of the health insurance, the tax credit would be base on the number of people insured for the household and not the cost of the health insurance, but it still should cover most if not all of the cost of the health insurance. For people doing unhealthy acts, I say tax them, tax smoking, tax unsafe cars, tax unhealthy food, and use those taxes to help fund health care.

I posted my plan under

uncategorized

please read all of it and tell me how to make it better and vote on it

my email is debdaveandpets@gmail.com

if you want to contact me, I think my plan would be easier to do than most other health plans.

David McDonell

E5273 Airport Road

Ironwood, MI 49938

Make basic health insurance like milk, you do not see huge difference in milk prices because milk is milk someone charges to much and people will buy it elsewhere, but for the free market to work well people have to be able to compare the different plans, and by making the basic plans the same across all health insurance companies people will only have to compare price and service for the basic plans and what optional insurance is offer by the health insurance companies. If the Clintons past single payer health care what would Bush have done with it by cutting coverage it offered. That is why I do not want single payer. By having sick people pay the same as healthy people, employers would not have to pay more for workers with medical problems and those people can change jobs and find work easier. Unhealthy items and acts would be taxed. Insurance companies can not use paper work to denied coverage and would get rid of most of it. Freemarket would keep costs down. people and retirement plans owning stock in health insurance companies would not lose a lot of value. Putting health insurance companies out of business would have costs.

I have a problem with the "means-test" idea. The only way to set up an equitable system is for everyone to pay the same price for the same service.

I am nowhere near "wealthy" but I do not resent those who have more than I do, or feel they need to be punished.

What sounds appealing about "we will give you what we think you need and charge you what we think you can afford?"