Thursday, October 8, 2009

Healthcare Reform is Not Reform At All

IF OUR GOVERNMENT WERE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM, WOULDN’T THE REFORM ADDRESS SOME OF THE FOLLOWING?

1. pharmaceutical industry profits
2. hospital corporation profits
3. medical equipment manufacturer profits
4. bureaucracy costs of Medicare and Medicaid
5. short staffing of nurses by hospital corporations
6. medicaid fraud by Medicaid recipients
7. uncontrolled family size in Medicaid recipients
8. fat and sugar food purchases by welfare recipients
9. advertising of high sugar and fat content foods to young children
10. Direct to Consumer television advertising of prescription drugs
11. unrestricted access by welfare recipients to medical care after office hours
12. payment of untrained relatives as care givers
13. unrestricted access by smokers, alcoholics, or drug users to medical care
14. restricted access to Sterilization Procedures for Welfare recipients
15. High Fructose Corn Syrup contents.
16. high vegetable fat contents
17. unhealthy school menus
18. low vitamin D levels
19. non existent Omega three blood levels in school children
20. statin prescriptions
21. psychoactive medication prescription by non mental health physicians
22. rda levels of nutrients
23. violence on TV
24. violent video games
25. lack of available counseling in schools