The are trying to justify their very existence by saying they do the dirty-work investigations (pfft), and yet they DO NOT MENTION their AWARD-WINNING REPORT on the PRICE-GOUGING of OUR NATIONAL MODEL?
Well, I THINK YOU KNOW WHOM and WHAT the AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBE WORKS FOR NOW if you did not know it before! They MUZZLE their OWN OUTSTANDING WORK?!!!!
See: What My Morning Paper is Made Of
"Costs snarling health overhaul; Study finds more are struggling to pay; Gains at risk in state's foray into insurance" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | May 28, 2009
Soaring healthcare costs, combined with the recession, are threatening to undermine the gains from Massachusetts' 2006 healthcare overhaul, according to the third annual "Update on Health Reform in Massachusetts" published today.
The survey.... also found that a rising number of residents, especially those with lower incomes, are reporting that they did not get needed care because of costs, which are rising faster than inflation.
Watch: Sicko
The cost factor is likely to be central to a discussion today as healthcare leaders come to Boston, in part for a briefing on the findings. Massachusetts' pioneering experiment is being closely watched as a potential model for a national health insurance mandate....
BEWARE, America, BEWARE!
See: Why the Nation Doesn't Need Massachusetts Health Care
Yeah, and WAIT until you see WHO they are PINNING the BLAME ON for the HIGH COSTS!!!!
The survey was conducted by the Urban Institute, a social policy think tank, and funded by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. It found that public support for the state's healthcare initiative is holding strong. Overall, about 70 percent of those surveyed in 2006 through 2008 said they back the first-of-its-kind law.
I no longer believe MSM polls.
They say we don't want to see the torture photographs by like 2-to-1 and that's a damn lie (although here is one I believe)!
The survey, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, identified many bright spots in the state's massive new system, which requires nearly everyone to have health insurance or pay a hefty tax penalty....
Honestly, I am tired of the pro-plan, pro-tax, one-sided "reporting" of the agenda-pushing Globe.
The affordability problems that have started to resurface, she said, can not be blamed on the state's overhaul, but on a much larger and troubling national trend. "Healthcare costs, in general, are increasing faster than inflation," Long said.
Okay, here we go!!!!
One number that remained unchanged, the report found, was the roughly 15 percent of Massachusetts residents who reported throughout the surveys that they used hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care. One key goal of the state's initiative was to drive down ER use - which can be expensive - by extending insurance to nearly everyone, so they could regularly visit their family physicians....
One word for you: Sicko
Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Single Payer Op
Difficulties finding a physician were much more common for low-income than higher-income residents. And adults with state-subsidized health insurance were much more likely to be told that a physician was not taking their type of insurance - 24 percent - compared with those with private insurance, 7 percent.
What the F***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????
They MAKE YOU GET IT and then DON'T ACCEPT IT?
But cost remained the overarching concern.
I'm waiting to see the shine of the Globe's spotlight!
A special state commission, created last year, is racing to identify ways to slow soaring healthcare costs in Massachusetts, where spending is growing by more than 8 percent annually, driven largely by the high price and heavy use of hospitals.
Yeah, AND.... ???????
The high price of healthcare is a hurdle the Boston-based Access Project hears about daily from families who increasingly find that medical bills are eating larger portions of their budget....
And down go the lights completely!!!
See if you can find the spotlight in the piece, reader:
Let's try this article:
"Insurers ranked on payment records; Bay State doctors waited longest for MassHealth funds" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | May 28, 2009
The state government Medicaid plan known as MassHealth, which covers low-income patients who can't afford insurance, was the slowest payer of health claims to Massachusetts doctors last year, averaging 56 days, and denied the highest share of claims, 23.8 percent, according to rankings set to be released today.
Can you 'effin believe this? And it is COMING YOUR WAY, AmeriKa!!!!!
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts took an average of 22.8 days to pay physicians who submitted claims last year, the fastest rate among Massachusetts health insurers, the rankings show. Tufts Health Plan, meanwhile, denied 4.9 percent of its claims, the smallest share among the five large payers billed by Bay State medical providers.
The rankings were prepared by Athenahealth Inc., a Watertown company that helps doctors handle billing and records electronically, in collaboration with the Physicians Practice management journal.... Administrative costs stemming from interactions between healthcare providers and insurers are estimated to total $31 billion a year, a recent study by the Commonwealth Fund foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's healthcare research organization reported.
I see that as WASTED MONEY because it is NOT ON CARE -- never mind the UNMENTIONED PROFITS!!!
The 2009 PayerView Rankings open a window onto some of the myriad complexities and bureaucratic obstacles weighing down the medical billing process, with each insurer handling the itemizing or modifications of medical charges in different ways, subject to varying contracts and payment timetables.
Yeah, it's a maze and a mystery, all that loot disappearing into corporate coffers!
"This is the biggest problem we have in healthcare - the inability to close supply chains and to practically and tactically connect doctors with payers and patients," said Jonathan Bush, the chairman and chief executive of Athenahealth. "These connections are broken."
Donna Masucci, office manager for the Everett pediatric practice of her husband, Dr. Peter E. Masucci, said her dealings with insurers have gotten progressively more complicated over the past three decades. "Billing is probably the most stressful part of the day for me," she said. "There's no incentives for insurers to pay on time."
With the STATE as the BIGGEST DEADBEAT!!
And THEY have the GALL to carp about DEADBEAT DADS!!!!!!!
Of course, in that case the STATE is PAYING OUT, not TAKING IN -- and you know how that is!!!!!!
Please see: What Your National Health Plan Will Look Like and related links.
Also see: Why You Are Getting National Health Care
Taxing the American Public's Health
How You Will Pay For Your Medicine
Return of the HMOs
Is OUR PLAN really what you want?
