Premiums are going up and well folks your healthcare.... is worse.

Yesterday the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) released a report regarding Premiums and Plan offerings in Obamacare’s exchanges for the upcoming 2014 year. Despite the Obama administration promises, as many Americans have already figured out do to letters from insurance company’s or from a notice from there employee healthcare premiums are going up and the quality of coverage…. Is worse.

What the HHS report did not mention is that many of these plans are a lot like what America knows as Medicaid; actually these new plans are Medicaid managed care plans. Insurance companies admit “Will look a lot like the Medicaid plans we are currently administering,” Not all patient know or understand that they are going to be placed in programs with very low physician reimbursements rates and less coverage then the average insurance plan. 

I want to encourage you to take time and pray for our leaders and our current health care.  America needs a healthcare that encourages a good patient-physician relationship, not a healthcare that hinders their relationship.

America is in for a rude Awaking, if we do not get things turned around. 

Sunshine Girl in Red

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Changes in Northeast Ohio HealthCare

Last month Northeast Ohio was shocked when Community Health announced that they would be buying Akron General which would also mean a merge with Cleveland Clinic. Great, more monopolized healthcare, Right?! Everyone seemed a bit surprise, except for all the Akron General employees who knew there was a change in the future, because of the recent layoffs within our own health system.

We as employees were just unsure as to what the change was going to be. The healthcare law already has us jumping through loops. It has as a whole has put a lot of restrictions and regulation on treatment plans for our patient. I can honestly say we all had a bad gut feeling that there would be job changes with the new health care cost

In a meeting that held the same day the announcement was made, Akron General upper management assured us that it did not look like there would be any more layoffs with the merge and that this would be a great thing for northeast Ohio. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case- Cleveland Clinic came out yesterday, not even a month later saying that thanks to the new health care law and unseen changes they would have to make 300 million cut to their budget which include........ Jobs.

Because of Medicaid’s horrible reimbursement rate, the new government funded health care that everyone is buying into doesn't look any better than our already tax supported government healthcare program (Medicaid). Hospital and doctors know there not going to be getting paid. In 2012 only 1 out of 3 doctors would even accept Medicaid.

This just a few examples of why Obamacare is bad for you and I as individuals and us as a country. The lasting negative effects of government run healthcare will push us as a country further into debt and deny many the care they need. Through loss of funding and multiplying restrictions that could hinder the quality of people's lives if not cause death in some cases. It is so important to talk to the leaders you voted into office. Make sure that they are there tomorrow fighting to defund Obamacare. As we know the bill will start out in the House of Representatives and move on to the Senate, where I believe it will come up against opposition. Once again:  It is important to contact those who hold office and let them know the negative effects Obamacare is having on you personally, the local economy and our nation as a whole. There are forces at work that are trying change the foundation of our country through the falsehoods of what is for the common good. Who are these people that they think they can pay god with our lives, our well-being and our future. This is also a time to call out to God, the one true physician, Who healed the blind and made the lame walk, Pray for our country's leaders and the current healthcare workers across the nation as they work day in and day out savings lives though him. 

Tomorrow is a big day. 

Sunshine Girl in Red. 

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So long HIPPA.

Oh, what another beautiful day in politics that I can very proudly get to say I told you so.

Why don’t we start at the beginning?  HIPPA- everyone upon visiting a physician office signs an agreement listing the standard of privacy and accountability which that medical offices will up hold for their patients. Along with a sheet that the patient is allowed to put down a contact other than themselves that is available to get there medical information such as a parents or a spouse.   

As a Patient your Personal Health Information is supposed to be protected under HIPPA but a new or not so new ruling (just another part of Obamacare) from the Department of Health and Human Services allows agencies to trading information to verify that Obamacare application are getting the minimum amount of health coverage. Personal health information is all of a patient’s individual health history, lab results, test, and medical concerns.

Our administration has said that the new rules will have the proper privacy laws. Ha, what a relief. I'm sure America will find that promising considering all the scandals we have seen in the past month, with the phone scandal and the New York gun law.

Obamacare has already tried to get in between the relationship with a patient and the physician, with this new law, it makes us- the health care workers seem like the bad guys, With health care providers struggling with insurance as what patients medical  needs really are. 

I understand our current health system needs health reform, but I also believe in the sanctity of life, and there are many parts of Obamacare that contradict the beliefs that life no matter what age or what is medical needed despite that cost, that life is precious.

Sunshine Girl in Red.  

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Update on ObamaCare

Its been a rough couple months for health care workers and Obamacare. We saw a uproar from local Minnesota leaders worried about the rising costs of the Affordable Care Act. In the beginning of May the New England Journal of Medicine put out a study undermining the lefts central argument for expanding Medicaid. We all also got to witness the judges fight to over turn the 12 year and older lung transplant regulation, one of the many Obamacare panels bright ideas. We never ending battle of the left and right fighting over I told you so, and this is how it needs to be. We even have a liberal senator Church Schumer, has admitted that health care cost could "go through the roof" with Obamacare. 

The above remarks were followed by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus who called Obamacare a "train wreck" before announcing his plans to retire. President Obama said in May at a press conference that Obamacare is "working fine" and that It has made health insurance stronger, better and more secure than it was before. President went on to says that there are just a slight details left to be implemented, but we shouldn't worry about those. 

Excuse me, there are just slight details left to be implemented. More Shitty healthcare is just what we need-said no one ever. I mean is that not why our own members of congress are trying to exempt themselves and their staff from Obamacare. 

Health Insurance Premiums are rising and taxpayers are having to pay for some major expenses that are coming from there paychecks. According to the Government Accountability office Obamacare and Medicaid cost are going to be down falls for the states that are just starting to get their budgets in place. 

Obamacare has several things it is changing with our current healthcare. One of the plans for Obamacare is to cover the uninsured by expanding medicaid, but this program is not in any way consider quality care and it is in need of major reform. I believe the reform should be delt with before we expand it. If one is in favor of lowering the debt, creating more jobs and stimulating the economy, then one should be for down sizing medicaid not expanding it. One in five physicians are restricting the number of medicare patients in their practice and one in three primary care doctors with this years cut in medicare payments of nearly 27 percent. Not only does it not benefit the working people, it creates a greater dependency on federal dollars.

President Obama says that the states opposing Obamacare is just political, but it is huge issue. Research shows the 40 our of 50 state will see a increase in cost to this medicaid expansion. Oh wait, they wont just see this increase, tax payers are already feeling with their paychecks they received right after the first of the year. You can't tell me your 2% raise covered your insurance that went up. 

Many things, many thing I tell you,  I could go on and on and on about. But I suppose i'll stop there for today, I would love to hear your insight! Leave me a message below. 

Trying to save the world one patient at a time.

Sunshine Girl in Red. 

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