I certainly do want to keep getting the countdown . . . so I'll resist the urge
to challenge your claim of the legislation saving 40,000 lives per year.
Anyway, this will be my last post on this. I don't want to turn friends into
enemies, and any conversation really belongs on THFGT.
BTW, I am not sub'd to THFGT. There is no way I could keep my job if I were.
How many more days until the Countdown begins?
Go Gators!!!!
Ken B. (NYC Gator)
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Darlene Goodfellow" <goodfell...@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:30:05
To: <gatortalk@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [gatortalk] Fw: [gatornews] [SUN]: UF expert: Health care law is
a good thing [Chun]
And I will resist the urge to point out it will save up to 40,000 lives a year
of the un- and under-insured (like us) every year, so if you want to keep
getting your yearly countdown long into the future... ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: ken...@earthlink.net
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:26 AM
Subject: [gatortalk] Fw: [gatornews] [SUN]: UF expert: Health care law is a
good thing [Chun]
I think this article is a load of garbage, but I won't write any more,
because I don't want to get into THFGT territory.
Go Gators!!!!
Ken B. (NYC Gator)
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From: Shane Ford <go.ufgator...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:05:38 -0500
To: <gatorn...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: UF expert: Health care law is a good thing [Chun]
UF expert: Health care law is a good thing
By Diane Chun
Gainesville SUN Staff writer
Published: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:26 p.m.
He doesn't put it quite as succinctly as Vice President Joe Biden, but one
University of Florida health policy expert agrees with Biden that the health
reform bill signed into law Tuesday is a good thing.
Professor R. Paul Duncan heads the University of Florida's Department of
Health Services Research, Management and Policy.
Over 30 years, Duncan has conducted research into health policy for both
Republican and Democratic lawmakers, some of it focused on disparities in
access to health care, health insurance and Medicaid.
Will the health reform legislation solve all the ills of the U.S. health-care
system? Probably not, Duncan says, but it is a step in the right direction.
"I think this is a really big deal and an important legislative action,"
Duncan said. "Is it the biggest thing since the advent of Medicare? Certainly
it is up in that category. Having 32 million uninsured people in America is a
national travesty."
It's too early to say what a middle-class Florida resident will see in terms
of an effect on their health insurance premiums, according to Duncan.
The premiums might go up somewhat in the short term, he said, but he expects
that will level off.
For years people have tried to determine what portion of today's premium paid
by an insured person and/or his employer is going to pay for the care of
uninsured, he explained.
"If those 32 million people become insured over the next three to five years,
whatever part of your premium was targeted to them ought to be going down,"
Duncan said.
A 2008 census report concluded that 24 percent of all Florida residents under
Medicare age were without health-care coverage. That puts Florida third in the
nation in the severity of its uninsured problem.
In Alachua County, census figures listed 57,977 uninsured residents, or 28
percent of the county's population.
Duncan added, "We all pay for the uninsured in various ways, and the theory
is that we are paying more than we'd need to pay if they had insurance in the
first place."
The major health insurance companies, according to Duncan, have made some
major concessions, including not excluding children with pre-existing
conditions and dropping the lifetime limit on coverage. In return, they asked
lawmakers for some protections.
What they wanted in return, he said, was a fairly robust mandate that said,
"If we can't cherry-pick the fairly healthy people, then people can't
cherry-pick us in reverse," meaning the only (uninsured) people who will buy
insurance are those who are sick.
If the 32 million uninsured do buy insurance, Duncan added, companies should
make out well.
"After all, they will have 32 million new customers," he said.
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