tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post7935394470987966982..comments2023-05-30T07:01:31.537-05:00Comments on Leave the lights on: Right to health care: One working definitionGinkgo100http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871889955884253147noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-28150777098911911542008-06-16T15:32:00.000-05:002008-06-16T15:32:00.000-05:00RAnn,You hit on one of the key reasons for the so-...RAnn,<BR/><BR/>You hit on one of the key reasons for the so-called "health care crisis": As medical technology improves, so does cost. It all started early in the 20th century when medical science made it possible for doctors to give their patients real hope for healing. And hope, unfortunately, is expensive.<BR/><BR/>It is such a frustrating and hard to solve problem to <I>know</I> how to help the very sick, but to be unable to do it.Ginkgo100https://www.blogger.com/profile/01871889955884253147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-44678540518312573462008-06-14T19:14:00.000-05:002008-06-14T19:14:00.000-05:00What is basic healthcare? It is easy to say that ...What is basic healthcare? It is easy to say that infertility treatments are a want, not a need. It is easy to say that you can't force someone to donate a kidney for transplant into someone else; but to use the transplant example, when is a kidney transplant "necessary" or "basic health care"? It is easy (I guess, I'm not a doctor) to say that someone's kidney isn't working and that to avoid dialysis, s/he requires a transplant, but do we offer transplants to all who in that catagory who can round up a donor? Does age become a factor? What about previous failed transplants? Whatbout lifestyle choices (if the patient's lifestyle choices were a major cause for the need for a transplant)Who gets to make the decision? <BR/><BR/>I'm concerned because it seems that much of the increase in our overall medical cost isn't from more expensive doctor visits for sore throats but rather for expensive treatments that didn't exist or were rare years ago such as NICU bills in the hundreds of thousands for babies who would have died quickly and cheaply--and then more bills to deal with the handicapped conditions some of these kids have throughout life or expensive chemo that adds months to lives of cancer patients or even relatively simple things like feeding tubes that allow life (and long-term expensive medical bills) to those in comas or similar conditons.RAnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04102249990885174107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-32828617524693072722008-06-09T18:24:00.000-05:002008-06-09T18:24:00.000-05:00I definitely like the Ascension Health statement. ...I definitely like the Ascension Health statement. As a physician I have a strong interest in the health care system. <A HREF="http://catholic-mom.blogspot.com/2008/06/framing-health-care-debate.html" REL="nofollow">I wrote on this topic today</A>. My position is that there is a basic level of care to which each of us is entitled. This basic level is not unlimited. I will be posting more on this topic in the next few days.Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752198020371163071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-12784592130001858162008-06-06T16:43:00.000-05:002008-06-06T16:43:00.000-05:00Ascension Health's statement is probably the best ...Ascension Health's statement is probably the best simple statement I've seen yet. By itself, though, I think it is more easily used to justify entitlement attitudes than not, despite the negative mention of such.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678151760343861879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-63389270290759169262008-06-04T15:17:00.000-05:002008-06-04T15:17:00.000-05:00This is such a sticky subject. I mean I believe th...This is such a sticky subject. I mean I believe that everyone has a right to live and to get healthcare<BR/>that they need in order to live well. Like in life saving situations. <BR/><BR/>The woman who said she was "entitled" to get infertility treatment. Not only do I disagree with infertility treatments(simply because it is morally wrong),but if we think along that lines then we should pay for someone's plastic surgery because it makes them "happy".<BR/><BR/>That said, I don't really want the Government getting involved because<BR/>they would put more restrictions on life,health and even family planning.shopinchichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03085541877501322444noreply@blogger.com