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HEALTH CARE REFORM

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Who is Mike Shaw

Hello and welcome,

My name is Mike Shaw

I’m an insurance professional with over 30 years first-hand experience of marketing insurance in the U.S., and the marketing of “private insurance” as it is known in the UK. I think my back ground as a small businessman and a regular patient of the “You pay” delivery system in the UK positions that offer a different perspective on the effects of the new legislation.

experience includes 15 years in the Southern California market, marketing primarily Insurance Medical Group “small business” employing 2 to 50 employees. However, in the UK, my focus was on the name “Blue Chip” of the home such as Coca Cola, Bristol Myer Squib, Air France and Salomon Brothers were among my hundreds of clients.

Why you may ask that a large company, who are already responsible for paying the relevant subscription through high taxes to finance “The National Health Service” (NHS as it is known in the United Kingdom?) why they want or need to buy additional private insurance to cover their employees?

As we approach potential customers with our insurance products to owners of privatized companies the vision of many reasons why there was an urgent need for an alternative to supplement the inefficient and out date “socialist system”

Our clients were looking for a solution to the challenges of attracting and retaining high quality employees in competitive markets. Consequently, it was never a difficult decision for the decision maker to buy privatized.

employer more common concerns and complaints about the NHS to date facilities, the old date equipment and lack of qualified personnel. Although there was general agreement that access to emergency or urgent care was “adequate” Employers who seek a more efficient system for health care for employees of non-urgent care or emergency.

second and most pressing need was declared to enable employees to access necessary medical care for treatment that were not currently access in a timely manner due to excessive waiting periods in the system National Health Service.

waiting periods often lead to employees who are absent from work totally disabled or unable to perform his / her job efficiently, waiting for what is called “elective or selective” treatment .

Generally, the waiting periods for the treatments of choice could be up to several years. Elective or selective treatments considered include, but is certainly not restricted to the problems of the spine, hip and knee. Even the treatment of mild heart attacks could be considered as an elective!

Ironically, because of the continued extension of the waiting periods for treatment of the current trend in the UK is the government to contract with the aim of many privately built modern and efficient plant now being established. Private organizations reflect the improvement in the latest equipment and modern facility. These facilities are well equipped and staffed to undertake the treatment of people who are currently on the NHS waiting list for “elective procedures” Overall, the waiting period for these facilities is measured in weeks and some days time!

So with the move toward “socialized medicine” or “one-payer system” here in the U.S. the effect and impact of health care reform bill on the ability of individuals and business owners to have access to timely care health here in the U.S.?

Health reform bill is also known as “Obama Care” was signed into force on March 23, 2010. So how will this massive piece of legislation impacts the way U.S. citizens purchase and use of Health and Health Insurance for the next decade and beyond? Time will tell, but make no mistake this legislation will affect all individuals and business owners and have a significant impact on how we as individuals and business owners to manage the cost and access to health services.

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only say yes or no “Obama Watch” will follow the same path as the English system in which it was modeled?

Is the U.S. system the NHS system as become a huge inefficient government bureaucracy (next only to the size of the bureaucracy of the British Army), which requires a large percentage of available resources for the maintenance of the bureaucracy rather than directing resources to treatment of patients? The irony is that the NHS has come full circle and is now looking to the private sector to solve their most pressing problems

For readers who are interested, I wrote a report that includes a series of five articles in which I will cover the timeline and consequences of any violation of applicable laws “Caring for Health Reform” she says.