Boom or bust for temp staffing companies. First lets examine the options. Government option healthcare = socialized medicine similar to Great Britain or Canada. This option appear unlikely, it was quickly exposed and failed to garner real support.
Senator Baccus, Democrat from Montana has a plan that has some bipartisan support.
It promotes non-profit co-ops as competition to private insurance companies. The problem with this plan is that it adds 900 billion dollars to our already burgeoning deficit.
Here are two viable options that might garner enough support from moderates and thus pass in some form:
Place continues on insurance carriers to get their act together or a government option will kick in 2012. This option has promise because most Americans want affordable access to quality healthcare. If the insurance companies were held to task, to pay legitimate claims timely the providers would be willing to take care of more members at a lower cost per patient. Conversely if they lowered premiums or resisted significant increases more companies could afford to offer healthcare benefits.
From all places to come from:
George McGovern wrote a editorial printed in Sundays New York time offering a solution to the reform question why not just offer Medicare to everyone, whoa George you would have to raise taxes dramatically for that to fly and I can not go along with that, however, maybe he is on to something. The current Medicare eligibility age is 65 how about we lower that to 60, this would help older people that is still in the workforce but struggling to maintain insurance benefits or are in need of more preventative medicine.
Working class families have a difficult time paying for or maintaining health insurance. Sometimes both parents work full time at minimum wage jobs and cannot afford coverage. I suggest we raise they amount of annual income a couple can make and still qualify for Medicaid benefits. The change would support families that hover around the poverty line without creating an entirely new government run healthcare program.
Now lets bring it full circle:
What will be the impact on medical staffing companies? Things are going to get better! no matter what plan is initiated, the outcome will be more dollars spent on healthcare per American. For that past two years, hospitals in States like Florida have been struggling with low patient census. When more money is pumped into the healthcare system, demands will go up!! Hospitals will recover and their improvement will affect sniffs’ rehab centers and ultimately medical staffing companies.
The combination of low hospital censes and a dire employment outlook has put a crunch on staffing agencies, look for this to reverse. Things are stabilizing and I anticipate modest growth in 2010. By 2010 and by 2011 health care reform will really take root and we should see significant growth for a period of several years.
Got to go for now, waitress just brought brownie sundae to my table at Chili’s !!
I have heard that by 2015 Medicare won’t have anything left for the generations that are contributing to it currently. What do we have to look forward to without Medicare?
More people are scheduling surgeries that had postponed due to the economy….but the physicians are so hungry for money they have been losing out on by patients staying home that they are sending less for home care and therapy and keeping them coming back to their own office for follow-up visits.
….as the world turns.
Did you know that the only two “industries” that are NOT subject to anti-trust/monopoly legislation are Major League Baseball and Helath Insurance companies? We busted up the phone companies and it helped with costs, why not Healthcare Insurance? In addition, deregulate the state boundaries to broaden the market and increase competition too! This will lower insurance costs in the spirit our country is built upon, freedom of enterprise in the market place! Do these immediatley and costs will go down and insured numbers will stop decreasing and may increase quciker than thought!
If we see there is still a need for a public option of some kind after these changes take effect, then at least its cost should be less too. Partisanship by our Republican and Democrat Representatives must be lessened and consenus must occur to finally do something about a real problem that will only get worse for all of us!
Good points all! I think the real need is in Insurance Reform and not Health Care Reform. Especially if it is through a single payer, government run system. We only need to look at the existing government run health care plans (Medicare/Medicaid) to see wastefullness, poor management, fraud and coruption at its worst. We have heard from several sources that Medicare will be out of funding in just a few years. If current tax revenue cannot support even the two existing programs, how can anyone imagine a universal health care plan that’s worth a darn will be affordable. And by the way, we’re still in a recession with high unemployemnt which means less tax dollars and we’ve been warned that we will have a slow recovery. Where’s the $ going to come from? Hmmmm, smells like much more taxes and giving up of a lot of benefits? I only know of one man that was able to take a few fish and feed hundreds of people….. A strong economy, with more people working, less hand-outs and an honest but profitable private insurance industry will resolve the concerns of Americans.
Wow! The emotions and disruptions of politics is really in the way of needed change getting done. This should have been dealt with long before now, and “free marketplace” is a key part of any solution. The new bill in the Senate makes sense in some ways and is supposed to help with our imminent Medicare funding problem. Obviously, we have to do something because if nothing is done there will be nothing there anyway. Otherwise, only the “rich”, goverment workers, and organized labor will have healthcare insurance of any kind. The truth is we ALL are going to see our taxes increase, and likely it is FICA. Now the 1099 employees will be even more important to track and collect from. I laugh at all of the politicians who state we will not have increased taxes. Washington DC is a travesty in its ineffectiveness. How can they be trusted to wisely use our money?
A little aside… Is the Class Act which regards long term care going to replace long term care insurance?
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June 10. 2008 started like any other day. I left for work and so did my wife. She is a designer for Thomasville Furniture and was excited about moving to a grand new store.
We spoke about 2pm and made plans to have dinner with our son. As we set down at the table she excused herself and said she was going to lie down. She felt sick. At 10 pm she was doubled over in pain. She asked me to call 911.
By the next morning she was in surgery to mend two perferated ulcers. An acute and painful surgery, but nothing out of the ordinary. But for her, it was just the beginning of a long journey that hasn’t ended yet.
She was moved to ICU. She was not coming to consciousness and fell into a delirium coma. She had TTP, a usual fatal blood disorder that sometimes happens after surgery. While she was comatose the doctors ordered massive steriods to be given to save her life.
This treatment seemed to work and after four days she became conscious but she didn’t get any better. In fact, she became worse. She was dying. We were told there was a ‘leak’ somewhere.
Her surgeon went in again. This time on a hunch. He was right and found flesh that had deteriated due to the steriods. He removed several inches of the dead tissue.
For awhile things seemed to get better. She was moved to a step down wing. She seemed to respond to treatment. However a low-grade fever came and we got the bad news that it was caused by two hospital based infections, MRSA and VRE.
The infectious disease doctors were called. Nothing worked. She did not respond to any drug she was given to combat the iinfections. In fact the new-age drugs caused an abcess to form that was a big as a melon.
More surgery was needed to drain this abcess and pin row tubes were inserted into several incisions on her side.
She was in the hospital for 8 long weeks and begged her way out to be released to go home. Her doctors were still dubious about her recovery. They finally released her to Suwannee Home Care. (An excellent choice by the way!)
Between our wonderful private physician and Jane at Suwannee she finally started getting better. Our doctor ordered shots of an old fashioned antibiotic to get rid of the MRSA and the VRE. They were painful and had many side effects (loss of hearing was just one) but the daily shots worked.
However the multitude of surgical tubes were inside her for 4 months. The inside tissue started to heal before they could be safely removed.
Now she has 5 hernias. It is 18 months later and she is still fragile and weak. We were told she is not a good candidate for surgery. In fact, before Christmas last year she was admitted into the hospital twice with blood poisoning and the hospital infections became active again.
My wife is a very young 58 year old. It’s hard to tell her that she will be an invalid. We took matters into our own hands and got in touch with the Mayo Clinic.
She didn’t expect to hear from Mayo, as no doctor referred us, she simply wrote them a letter explaining all the complications she was facing.
Now she is recieving treatment at Mayo and things are looking up as far as her prognosis for her needed surgery and recovery.
However, this time Mayo is out of our insurance network so there is no ‘case manager’ assigned. The wonderful case manager at BC-BS that helped us through the 8 week hospital stay and okayed anything the doctors requested was released from our case. (The bill from Shands was a quarter of a million dollars by the way!)
Out of network means out of pocket expenses. A lot of them. And Ginger has not been able to work since that day in June when this all started.
Now we are manuvering ourselves through our insurance company. We feel like we are adrift on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean.
Now several procedures and various medications have to be approved by a ‘group’ that are not medical professions. They are bureaucrats at BC-BS and they deem whether a medication or a test is ‘medically necessary[’ even though it is ordered by a licensed doctor.
Naturally it seems the most expensive treatments and medicine are the ones they disallow. One has to go through a appeal process that takes months.
Health care reform. A few minutes ago there was a huge banner on MSNBC “What Health Care Reform Will Mean for Your Family”. I just read it and I still don’t understand what it means.
I have one question and many concerns. Does it mean that my wife will be able to receive some of the care she needs without having to go through the administrative hoops set forth by Blue Cross-Blue Shield?
There are so many more points to talk about and understand. This is just one of the concerns I have. So stay tuned. I suppose we all need to just wait and see.
I cannot believe health insurance premiums continue to rise as they have been. We have individual (i.e. family) coverage, and the rates for our family of 5 have increased over 25% in each of the last 3 years. And I am not counting a change in our age group. That will be coming next year as I turn 35. This rate of cost increases cannot continue. What’s going to happen to people who make less than we do? (And are typically younger, and who typically make less money.) They will start to drop off of the lists of those who have insurance. And the cycle continues. Does the federal health care reform change any of this? For us it’s only a matter of time before I either have to drop off the roles of the insured, or change my lifestyle completely by selling my house, or worse. Maybe we’ll have to move to Europe, where coverage is mandatory.
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