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Questions You Should Health Care Reform Bill, which QUALY – quality adjusted life-years

President Obama’s plan for health care reform contains some surprising positions. One is QUALY, which stands for quality-adjusted year of life. The more I hear about QUALY, the more I feel that people throw away. When did you first hear the term, it sounds good, and you think the doctor will do everything possible to prolong his life.

That is not what is done will QUALY. Yes, doctors will do everything possible to prolong their lives, but their actions will be restricted by government regulations. What is QUALY? This is a mathematical formula that will determine whether the parents received medical care or not. QUALY British health care system. “Cartridge”, an independent British publication of evidence-based health care, takes exception to the idea of ​​a formula.

According to the newsletter, the idea of ​​adjusting life-years, is designed to “combine the quantity and quality of life.” While this sounds like a good idea, the Oxford scholar who writes a newsletter – Andrea Moore, Sheena Derry, and Maura Moore – said QUALY is a rough measurement with a serious flaw.

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Contrast Obama’s health care plan and the UK National Health Service

Heated debate about the new health care reform has increased the basic comparison between Barack Obama and British plans of National Service здравоохранения.Британский NHS offers free medical care to people who are British citizens and taxpayers’ money paid. Obama’s plan does not attempt to pay the medical expenses of any tax money remitter. For this reason, comparisons are unfair and unreasonable.

The National Health Service was adopted in 1948 and it is difficult to establish a treatment plan. This plan is financed by money collected from taxes to pay the amount of U.S. dollars rabotnikov.Rabochie $ 3.2000 per person per year. No payment is involved when it comes to doctor visits. No one should pay when they visit the doctor as the fees paid to health almost no taxpayers. Of course, these services are not really free. People have to pay a small fee for prescription drugs. Some people also can buy private insurance package.

Obama’s Health Plan is not the same as the NHS, because the president’s plan to offer free health care for him, he was just trying to regulate the interaction of the health insurance industry with regulations narodom.Plan fault with the existing industry practice, and not fully paid for by taxpayers’ money.

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