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Helen Halpin is the Director of the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies and a health policy professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.


Medicare Fast Facts

Medicare covers more than 35 million Americans ages 65 and older and nearly 6 million younger adults with disabilities.

By 2031, the number of Medicare recipients is predicted to rise to 77 million.

The government's 2002 projections show that currently 24% of Medicare recipients have no prescription drug coverage. The rest have coverage through employer-sponsored health plans (32.9%), Medicaid (12.3%), Medigap (14.8%), Medicare+Choice (10.6%), or other supplemental programs.

Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security accounted for 42% of all federal spending last year.


>>> The above source: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/03/07_medicare.shtml
Please notice this next part is my input.

OVER 35 MILLION PEOPLE ALONE ON MEDICARE - AND MEDICARE MAKES ERRORS AND MISSES ISSUES AS WELL AS ANY PRIVATE PAY INSURANCE... How MANY of those people DO YOU THINK... If you think at at all, got a denial? If your still able to think... How many do you think needed LIFE SAVING medical needs? And, if you have not passed out yet... How many people do you think MISSED an tiny ERROR made by the insurance Medicare and never realized it? AS IN THEY FELL THROUGH THE CRACKS!

I know big fucking deal... Well dipstick! One day if YOU are lucky enough to be able to recieve MEDICARE... I wonder if they will DENY your stupid ass also? No, not you? Really...

OVER 98% of the ENTIRE... THIS IS THE ENTIRE WORKING AGED US POPULATION HAS NOT ONE CLUE what they can do in those cases... How much do you want to bet, YOU my bright lightbulbed readers... Falls into the that 2%?

DISABLED IS NOT, I REPEAT... A disabled person is NOT only the person you see now and again who can not formulate words that YOU can understand... They are not just people like me in a wheelchair... How is it people like to think of us? "cripple-ass special olymic retards"

That quote taken from a gaming community I have been apart of sense 2004.... Please see the screen picture in my next post...

Health Care Advocates Brace for Deeper Cuts in Revised Budget

The Schwarzenegger administration briefed health care advocates on Tuesday to warn them that cuts to Medi-Cal and other health care programs would remain in a revised budget proposal that Gov. Schwarzenegger will release today. Some advocates said they were alerted that the budget also would seek to tighten eligibility rules for Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.

San Francisco Chronicle et al.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/14/BA4310LPP7.DTL


More cases of people BEING RAPED by the system... HEALTH CARE SYSTEM - My discovery is BIGGER than SICKO.... WAY WAY BIGGER!

And, I just asked an Expert in CLASS ACTION LAW - OH Yeah in Health related care type law... what we need to do about this...

If the punk news - so called news people will not notice... Maybe when the Expert takes notice... I will not have time to waste on the main stream news people...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=spinergydude&plckPersonaPage=PersonaBlog&plckUserId=spinergydude

I introduced the issue I faced... If you feel this issue needs to be heard pop in and post showing support... :)


San Francisco Chronicle - is not responsible for my posts, I am.

More Americans are taking prescription medications

By LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Business Writer

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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(05-14) 13:18 PDT Trenton, N.J. (AP) --

For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.

The most widely used drugs are those to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol — problems often linked to heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

The numbers were gathered last year by Medco Health Solutions Inc., which manages prescription benefits for about one in five Americans.

Experts say the data reflect not just worsening public health but better medicines for chronic conditions and more aggressive treatment by doctors. For example, more people are now taking blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering medicines because they need them, said Dr. Daniel W. Jones, president of the American Heart Association.

In addition, there is the pharmaceutical industry's relentless advertising. With those factors unlikely to change, doctors say the proportion of Americans on chronic medications can only grow.

"Unless we do things to change the way we're managing health in this country ... things will get worse instead of getting better," predicted Jones, a heart specialist and dean of the University of....

Read the full article please here >>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/13/national/a210122D22.DTL&tsp=1

Yes, that is correct my very own NEWS blog just for the disabled, and those looking to learn about what we can do to stop the RAPING the US Medical insurance Industry is doing to us...

Please feel welcome to bring up important NEWS to YOU in the disabled world. If your a Disabled Magazine need some exposure come on over and share... If your looking to get your story posted on another blog... Well now I have one just for NEWS in our world... One that seems to be lacking the coverage I am offering...

If you are also a reporter in the world of helping alert people to issues of the US Health System any thing in it... By all means com on over and if it can be tied to Disabilty and the people with them... Well, then I need to see it, and post it...

If your a Durable Medical Equipment Dealer and want to provide a ling to your location...

Pop on in and share... Same with anyone wanting to have me post your NEWS here and at the SF Gate NEWS blog I also have...

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