AlJazeeraEnglish asked:

Its the biggest battle of Barack Obamas first year: fixing a health care system in crisis. Plagued by both spiraling costs and tens of millions uninsured, lawmakers have worked at a feverish pitch debating how to re-tool what accounts for nearly a fifth of the American economy. Meanwhile this broken system is highly profitable for many. In the back rooms a battle is raging as the powerful health care industry pushes for change that wont change their bottom line. On this weeks episode of Fault Lines, we go inside the American health care system, expose its cracks, and uncover the forces that are spending millions of dollars every day to influence the debate over health care reform.

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foghaze asked:

Linda Pino Admits to Congress that she personally denied Health care to one of their patients ultimately leading to his death. She also admits to many more people who should have been approved care but was denied. She was given a promotion because she saved the Insurance company MILLIONS of dollars. All agents were given bonuses for saving the company by denying care. It is utterly sickening and profound. But thats how they make their money.

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Miss G6 asked:


I would like to go back to school and get another certificate in health care. I currently have my nurses assistant certificate but I want to do something that pays more and is less gross. I was thinking about medical assistant or phlebotomy but I don’t know if its in demand in ca I want to make sure it is.

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Purge DC! asked:


Medicare has run up $70 trillion of unfunded commitments in 40 years, and that is just for seniors and after they have paid into the system for decades.

Does anyone know how much medicare cost when it was started in 1965?

If we do a government option in health care, how much will medicare for all cost us in 40 years?

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the oak park ghost asked:


How do we go about this without drastically increasing out health insurance costs?
Of course we all need to practice healthier lifestyle habits, but fiscally how do we improve our nation? Should we adobt other nation’s practices? if so, whose?
How do we improve health care across america and lower the costs to the citizens who utilize that care?

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??? asked:


I am planning on going into nursing, but I’m afraid that this will greatly reduce job opportunities and cut the pay of health care workers.

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wwsracing asked:


The bill that past did nothing to provide or gaurantee heathcare as a right to everyone. What it did is mandate you buy health insurance. Everyone seems to think it was about health care, it was not.

Here are the wiki definitions of each:
Health care, or healthcare, is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions

Health insurance like other forms of insurance is a form of collectivism by means of which people collectively pool their risk, in this case the risk of incurring medical expenses. The collective is usually publicly owned or else is organized on a non-profit basis for the members of the pool, though in some countries health insurance pools may also be managed by for-profit companies

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UpTakeVideo asked:

President Obama talks with US Senators and Representatives of both parties about health care reform.

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Allyse asked:


I just turned 23 last year and I am no longer covered under my parent’s insurance. I started paying for my own health insurance since I only work part time while attending school. I see that the new health care bill will allow dependent children to be covered under their parent’s insurance until age 26. Can I go back to being covered by my parent’s insurance as long as they claim me as a dependent?

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Neda asked:


What are each generations obligations to those before and those after them? Do the old consume too much health care? What is too much? How should health care resources be distributed across the population? Should health care be explicitly rationed on the basis of age?

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