Comments on: Health Reform – Reducing the cost of health care http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/ Affecting NC public policy through informed, energetic and progressive conversations. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Milo http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56522 Milo Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:20:36 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56522 Lieb,J."Stimulating immune function to kill viruses." (2009) Amazon (and bacteria, parasites, and fungi). Lieb,J."Killing cancer). (2010) Amazon (in press). Lieb,J.”Stimulating immune function to kill viruses.” (2009) Amazon (and bacteria, parasites, and fungi).
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]]> By: Alex http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56506 Alex Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:42:09 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56506 The first step is going from a passive medical consumer society to an active one. What I mean is taking charge of ourown health. Educating ourselves about the basics. About nutrition, exercise, smoking, prevention, and managing any illnesses we have. Now the thinking is you get sick you go to the doctor and expect to be treated. This is passive. I have heard this described as sick care rather than health care. The second step to me is medical records. I grew up with a father in the Navy. From birth through college I had one medical record which was standardized and went everywhere with me. The third step is communication and coordination of care. Often my care givers do not communicate with each other even with in the same health care system. The forth is step is prevention and disease management, even with a disease like MS it is less expensive for insurance companies, society and the individual to pay for prevention than relapses. The drug I take to stop progression costs $2,500 a month. But I have not had one ER visit, hospitalization, or expensive IV steroid infusion. It was a yearly exam which caught my MS early, proving prevention works. The fifth step is education. When I was diagnosed with asthma and MS the Doctors just assumed I understood my conditions. They sent me home with medicines. Especially with asthma compliance was easier once I understood the disease. When I did my own research and sought out the MS Society I found how little I knew about MS. The sixth step is using the right care givers. You do not always need to see a doctor. Nurse Pracitioners and PAs are very good in many instances. The first step is going from a passive medical consumer society to an active one. What I mean is taking charge of ourown health. Educating ourselves about the basics. About nutrition, exercise, smoking, prevention, and managing any illnesses we have. Now the thinking is you get sick you go to the doctor and expect to be treated. This is passive. I have heard this described as sick care rather than health care.

The second step to me is medical records. I grew up with a father in the Navy. From birth through college I had one medical record which was standardized and went everywhere with me.

The third step is communication and coordination of care. Often my care givers do not communicate with each other even with in the same health care system.

The forth is step is prevention and disease management, even with a disease like MS it is less expensive for insurance companies, society and the individual to pay for prevention than relapses. The drug I take to stop progression costs $2,500 a month. But I have not had one ER visit, hospitalization, or expensive IV steroid infusion. It was a yearly exam which caught my MS early, proving prevention works.

The fifth step is education. When I was diagnosed with asthma and MS the Doctors just assumed I understood my conditions. They sent me home with medicines. Especially with asthma compliance was easier once I understood the disease. When I did my own research and sought out the MS Society I found how little I knew about MS.

The sixth step is using the right care givers. You do not always need to see a doctor. Nurse Pracitioners and PAs are very good in many instances.

]]> By: pino http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56499 pino Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:26:50 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56499 <i>that’s exactly what the health care reform bills set us on the road to doing.</i> I haven't seen that anywhere in the bill. Is it possible to provide Section and page # so we can check it out? that’s exactly what the health care reform bills set us on the road to doing.

I haven’t seen that anywhere in the bill. Is it possible to provide Section and page # so we can check it out?

]]> By: Louie http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56492 Louie Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:14:39 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/01/04/health-reform-%e2%80%93-reducing-the-cost-of-health-care/#comment-56492 have you guys read Andrew Weil's new book? We need a total transformation of the way that modern medicine is practice, NOT just incremental tinkering with who is 'covered'. have you guys read Andrew Weil’s new book? We need a total transformation of the way that modern medicine is practice, NOT just incremental tinkering with who is ‘covered’.

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