How are YOU gonna like it when they TELL YOU to CHANGE at age whatever?
We got TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS? We can FIGURE OUT a WAY to TAKE CARE of our VALUABLE SENIORS who have EARNED THEIR REST -- not HASSLES about CHANGING!
I want Sicko-style health care more than ever. Universal, and FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS OUT!
"Sobering results for project aimed to cut Medicare costs; Study shows managing older patients difficult" by Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press | February 11, 2009
CHICAGO - An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn't work, a government-contracted study found.
The disappointing results show how tough it is to manage older patients with chronic diseases, who often take multiple prescriptions, see many different doctors, and sometimes get conflicting medical advice. The study showed how hard it is to change the habits of older patients and their sometimes inflexible doctors. And it underscores challenges the Obama administration will face in trying to overhaul healthcare for an aging nation.
WHY should OLD PEOPLE be INCONVENIENCED like that? Why can't we just have UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE like in Canada, France, or England so NO ONE HAS TO WORRY and OLD PEOPLE are NO HASSLED?!!
Oh, right, CHA-CHING!!!!!
Most of the patients had serious, but common, age-related illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease.... None saved Medicare any money....
"The only way you can really do it is by changing patients' behavior and by changing physicians' behavior, and both things are really hard to do," said study author Randall Brown, a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research Inc., in Princeton, N.J., which was hired to evaluate the programs.
And SHOULDN'T BE DONE!!!
Why must OLD PEOPLE BE HASSLED in such a way?
How about getting this LYING, LOOTING, MASS-MURDERING GOVERNMENT to CHANGE ITS WAYS!! Then we could CARE FOR OUR VETS, too!!!!
Often, these patients need to stop smoking, or lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier foods - a challenge even for generally healthy people. Those changes are especially tough for sick, older patients who often are set in their ways.
No wonder some older folk are cranky; I will be, too!
"The same thing with physicians," Brown said. "A lot of them feel like they know how to take care of patients, so why do they need a nurse calling up and asking them why the patient isn't on some certain medication?"
Yeah, who the hell are the physicians that are on-the-ground doing primary care and knowing them?!! Just who the hell do those uppity doctors think they are?
And what the hell are nurses doing promoting pharmaceutical profits?
Many patients in the study had more than one chronic disease, a common Medicare scenario. In 2002 alone, half of Medicare patients had been treated for five or more ailments, and they accounted for 75 percent of Medicare spending, the study authors noted.
And with all the requisite pills, I can already here the CHA-CHING of the csh register.
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And lest I raise an irritating question, but could the PILLS be KEEPING OUR ELDERS SICK? I know some ALL-NATURAL ELDERS around here and THEY DO NOT SUFFER SUCH MALADIES (knock wood).
Related: Aspirin use can prevent the growth of colon polyps
Seems like simple aspirin does a lot of things.
