The Five Biggest Problems In Health Care Today

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leahbinder/2013/02/21/the-five-biggest-problems-in-health-care-today/ 1) Too much unnecessary care: This is essentially people playing the system. People abusing health care accounts to 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost of total health care; which contributes to the debt our country is already in 2) Avoidable harm to patients: This is the most common health care problem. This is basically a 25% chance that, while at the hospital or doctors office, you will get injured in another way or have some other sort of problem caused at the actual treatment center 3)Billions of dollars are being wasted: According to the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology," about 1 billion dollars is wasted every year for unnecessary healthcare costs. 4) Perverse Incentives in How We Pay for Care: This is basically saying that the way we pay for our treatment with a middle man, the insurance company, and with this type of indirect paying type, money is wasted. 5) Lack of Transparency: We don't really have a wide selection of health care buildings as we do car dealers for example. To buy a car you look around and find the cheapest price. When it comes to health care, there is no transparency, referring to we can't exactly look around to find the cheapest hospital. Also, the prices for health care treatments are constantly rising without the public really knowing. I think the biggest problem is the lack of transparency. This article made a really good point in the fact that no one can really judge health care prices. If more knowledge was given out to the public about the constant rise of health care, then i believe that would slow down the rise. For example, if you go to look at a car and the price is constantly rising, you'll refuse to buy that car if it's overpriced. The dealer will have no other option but to lower his prices or stop rising prices if he wants business. This is an article i believe more people need to look at and realize how ridiculously high the amount of money wasted is. Not only that, but how ridiculous the price of health care is.

Obamacare News: Healthcare reform curbs full-time hiring

http://medcitynews.com/2013/12/obamacare-news-healthcare-reform-curbs-full-time-hiring/ According to Duke University,20% of businesses are less likely to hire new employees due to the pushiing costs of "Obamacare." They also state 10% of busninesses may actually lay off current employees due to Obamacare. Since the Affordable Health Care act requires most businesses to supply healthcare to full time workers, and the economy isn't at its best, its hurting smaller businesses alot. Part-time employees are now being hired over full time employees at most local busineses hence the Health Care law from 2010. In my opinion, I think the government should cut back on affordable health care. It's a huge addition to the enormous debt we already have. Most people play the system and end up having some type of affordable health care even when they're laid off. Pushing new healthcare reforms will not help anything in the current position the economy is in. Small local businesses are essentially the backbone to our economy and these health care reforms are mainly effecting these small local businesses negatively. I also don't really understand why new health care reforms are even coming out. To me it seems like the government is revamping Obamacare all over again. Who is this supposed to be helping and what's the goal to these new reforms?