Our Many Healthcare Crises, Part 2 | The Root Cause of Many of Them
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Show Summary: When Obamacare was passed (rammed through without a single Republican vote), it was supposed to fix health care and lower costs. All those savings, remember? What happened? But there are more problems and more spending than ever. This week, we continue our talk with healthcare-system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier, but zero in on the two root causes of many of, if not all of, our many healthcare crises.
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Original Air Dates: August 6th & 7th, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier
This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises
We continue our deep dive into the problems plaguing our health care system—the many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another?
But this week, we zero in on the two main problems. And they should be no surprise, really, for anyone who has followed I Spy Radio’s many shows on healthcare or for anyone who has a lick of common sense. The two root causes are money and government. Particularly, government interference.
We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic-analyst’s viewpoint.
Need healthcare and not sure where to turn? Give Lisa a call. Her website is www.HealthSourceNW.com. She helps individuals and businesses throughout Oregon and SW Washington make sure they have the right coverage for when, God forbid, they really need it. Will your policy cover what you think it does?
The Root Cause of So Many Healthcare Crises
This week, you’ll also hear an extended opener from I Spy Radio host, Mark Anderson, on the government’s interference — sabotage, really — of the normal free-market forces that would normally lower cost and improve care. Mark walks you through what a free market system would look like. Hint: we don’t have one now (remember Obama et al. when they were pushing Obamacare: “the free market failed”?), not in health care. And he walks you through the government interfering with the free market, much of which can be traced back to a 1943 IRS ruling.
If you didn’t already think “they” are destroying things on purpose, you’ll believe it after this show. No one, no government, makes this many “mistakes” on purpose.
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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info
- Even Without Covid Surge, Oregon Hospitals Nearly Full (Lund Report, July 30, 2022)
- Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients’ bills (NPR, July 28, 2022)
- Rising prescription drug prices (OregonLive, July 20, 2022)
- Oregon agency sets virtual public hearings on 2023 health insurance preliminary rate decisions (KTVZ, July 23, 2022)
- Healthcare and ambulance services deal with capacity crisis (KGW, July 22, 2022)
- Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot (Daily Mail, July 23, 2022)
- WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)
- Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)
- Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey (Yahoo News, July 25, 2022)
- Covid Relief Spending by the Federal Government (via USASpending.gov, retrieved July 28, 2022)
- Albany’s Faithful pick up the mantle for Universal Health Care (Democrat Herald, July 30, 2022)