Comments on: Reform http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Diane Hanks http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3836 Diane Hanks Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:06:28 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3836 I am a Family Nurse Practitioner about to finish my Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification as well. I have been an advocate of yours since reading your 'Twenty Myths About National Health Insurance (NCPA Policy Report #166, Dec 1991) several years ago. I have seen the damage done when health care is not allowed to be impacted by the free-market system. I have seen mental health patients treated in a haphazard manner, and the majority of the time with no apparent standard of care. I have seen patients medicated when medication is not appropriate. Many providers seem to believe that somehow national health care will alleviate this problem?? When I speak against national health care to those in the health care field, I am treated like a heretic. They believe that national health care and 'providing health care to all' is sacrosanct. I have referred many people to your articles, and would like to thank you for standing up for common sense. I am curious, however, why it is that the public voice on this matter seems to have laryngitis? I am a Family Nurse Practitioner about to finish my Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification as well. I have been an advocate of yours since reading your ‘Twenty Myths About National Health Insurance (NCPA Policy Report #166, Dec 1991) several years ago. I have seen the damage done when health care is not allowed to be impacted by the free-market system. I have seen mental health patients treated in a haphazard manner, and the majority of the time with no apparent standard of care. I have seen patients medicated when medication is not appropriate. Many providers seem to believe that somehow national health care will alleviate this problem?? When I speak against national health care to those in the health care field, I am treated like a heretic. They believe that national health care and ‘providing health care to all’ is sacrosanct. I have referred many people to your articles, and would like to thank you for standing up for common sense. I am curious, however, why it is that the public voice on this matter seems to have laryngitis?

]]> By: Ashley Day http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 Ashley Day Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:38:36 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3690 Well-reasoned, fact-based and ethical... Well-reasoned, fact-based and ethical…

]]> By: Kerry Winterer http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3686 Kerry Winterer Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:21:40 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3686 This is logical and clearly is the proper way to think about our health care financing problems. But how do we muster the political will on the part of elected officials to do what it takes to make changes? It is too easy now for politicians to jump on the single payor or mandated coverage bandwagon and believe they have fixed the problem. This is logical and clearly is the proper way to think about our health care financing problems. But how do we muster the political will on the part of elected officials to do what it takes to make changes? It is too easy now for politicians to jump on the single payor or mandated coverage bandwagon and believe they have fixed the problem.

]]> By: Dr. Bob http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3661 Dr. Bob Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:44:08 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3661 It is so logical, no wonder the bureaucrats don't get it. It is so logical, no wonder the bureaucrats don’t get it.

]]> By: Robert Sade http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3660 Robert Sade Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:43:37 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3660 Great article, John! Great article, John!

]]> By: AllLindsey http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3659 AllLindsey Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:42:24 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3659 Make that two. Brilliant piece. Make that two. Brilliant piece.

]]> By: Art Jetter http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3658 Art Jetter Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:40:40 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3658 John, You are thankfully not the only one. You are the most eloquent and effective one. John,

You are thankfully not the only one.

You are the most eloquent and effective one.

]]> By: Bill Lewis http://healthblog.ncpa.org/reform/comment-page-1/#comment-3445 Bill Lewis Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:08:47 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/reform/#comment-3445 Great wisdom. I suggest you will reach virtually the same conclusions for many of the same reasons if you examine other government solutions related to flood, wind and hurricane insurances. Great wisdom.

I suggest you will reach virtually the same conclusions for many of the same reasons if you examine other government solutions related to flood, wind and hurricane insurances.

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