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Post by sheredelight on Aug 30, 2011 19:52:53 GMT -5
Please watch... They don't care about us !!!!!!! The Birth Certificate of Kaiser Permanente This factual and indisputable film reveals the foundation of the Kaiser Permanente health plan and provides a perspective on why Kaiser will not deal with the complexities and expenses associated with Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. It was created by Juperina Stein who was irrepairably harmed by Kaiser. The film is less than three minutes in length. This is at YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l0biRx2PMAwww.youtube.com/watch?v=eM66DEBpIhQ&NR=1 Steven Harris ILADS presentation - Augsberg, Germany - May 28, 2011 Strategies for the Treatment of Lyme Disease A superb and comprehensive presentation on Lyme disease diagnosis, testing, and treatment. xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/4321767/1522199476/name/Stephen%20Harris%20ILADS2011.pdf
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Post by sheredelight on Aug 30, 2011 20:29:35 GMT -5
In about 1986 the federal ERISA bill elevated the health plans to the level of diplomatic immunity from legal suit, the only US industry so protected. This greatly lowered the risk of HMO suits and represented the removal of patient rights. The current bill - called the Patient Bill of Rights and now delayed in a Senate-House Joint Conference Committee - is really about the restoration of patient rights removed in 1986. But prepaid health plans brought with them the predictable risk that the involved physicians might start withholding health care to make a profit within this new system. Physicians' costs (including their offices) are about 20% of the health care dollar, but the physicians normally order the other 80% of the health process. Physician groups could, therefore, get paid 30%, for example, of the old budget total (increasing their income by 50% of what they were then making before), if they could reduce the ordering of tests, medications, outside referral, and hospitalizations to 75% or less of what was previously utilized for these purposes. And the government would also get a portion of the savings in the form of a slower expansion of Medicare. lyme.kaiserpapers.org/
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