Insurance and Healthcare

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

What is your opinion of healthcare as it stands now in the US?

Is it getting better or worse?

How do you feel about pharmacy companies research agencies?

Are they making money to bandage symptoms of the populace or do you feel that they really are pushing forward to cure illnesses?


What would you change about your insurance carrier if you had a chance to rewrite your policy?

What are some things in your policy that you feel is harmful to you as a patient and conversely what are somethings that you have in your insurance that you really like, especially when it comes to covering your children from both aspects?

The NIH budget was cut by $2 billion last year. Many researchers and projects lost funding. New researchers were not awarded much either and most of the money is not competitive for molecular genetic based research.

There is more sponsored research in Global Public Health than ever before. With the Gates Foundation (Buffet's money included), as well as UN, governmental and NGO's funds, conquering "infectious disease" is the name of the game. Money is being put into small wand technology - like "pregnancy tests" that are resistant to the heat or the elements for interpretation.

Basic science has not been done...

Most basic science is "stem cell research" and it is only competitive in Asia and maybe California. Everywhere else, justice system has not kept up...

Overall, the US is NOT competitive in science and technology. In 20 years (or less), we will be at a disadvantage. Aging systems, drugs used to treat ailment discovered over 100 years ago for newly evolved bugs, and there will be a total breakdown of the healthcare system as we know it, today...

The main culprit, education and information... People are not taught basic hygiene like they were in the '60s and 70's... It is not being passed down from the parents. And let's not get into contraception education... And no one is being informed or the information is ineffective. Tactics have to be changed: i.e. maybe to inform the youth about HIV treatment we have to text message them rather than call their "momma's or grandmomma's house"...

We will have a public health disaster worse than Hurricane Katrina if these "systems problems" are not solved--not bandaids, but SOLVED...

I am not the only one saying this...