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Health Insurance, Capitol Hill & Blogs, Pt.14 – Federally Qualified Health Centers.

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A passionate blog begins to stir more response now. Blogger ‘RG, MBA, CMPE’ portends that the government needs to stay right away from the issue of Health insurance/care reform. He agrees that it may win votes, but that the whole concept should “go down in history as campaign rhetoric and fade as quickly as the results on election night!” He suggests that “there are better ways to address it. His contention as that we already have a system of healthcare for the poor and those 73 million Americans with either no health insurance or inadequate health insurance. The program called Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) just needs to be expanded. He professes that: “It works and the benefits are demonstrable.” He states that patient cost is ‘encouraging’, (for 78 million?) and, best of all, it negates the need for the government to force all of us to buy health insurance. He believes government involvement is complicating things way too much and causing excessive spending.

Blogger ‘Neal Colburn’ concurs with the health insurance/care provisions of ‘RG’. He also advises expanding FQHC’s where ever the need is. They ‘do it all’. They accept “Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance” and even adjust payment fees according to financial ability for those without health insurance. He reports that they also stack up well for comprehensive primary care treatment as well as efficiency with a 15% to 30% global cost savings. Another good idea would be to create a voucher system for covering specialty referrals and ancillary services (lab, imaging etc.) and also to adjust them to ‘a patient’s ability to pay’.

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