Dr. Ben Carson on Health Disparities and Health Care Reform

[@742Timbox]

I wish I could meet Dr Carson because I’m a big fan 👍

[@judithjoseph1143]

I have always admire this man! God bless your soul Dr. Carson!

[@PecaniAnna]

Dr. Carson you are the hope for this Country!!! Please, don't give up in saving this country!

[@PecaniAnna]

Why you don't talk about race??? Because when you open the "cover" you deal with what makes a person what he is.....Dr. Carson you are the best brain this country have. The brightest Mind!

[@judithjoseph1143]

Wow "Everybody's life is worth the maximum effort!"

[@mwangomalauni9112]

Dr you a great motivator who has inspired me

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Dr Ben Carson for President 2016 you have my vote!

[@tadesdr]

Excellent ever heard on disparity

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This Man is OUTSTANDING!!

[@mwangomalauni9112]

Seeing what's already there

[@742Timbox]

Dr Carson you are my favorite person for president

[@MikeNewWest]

I found this talk to be informative and interesting. I am to the left of Dr. Carson and have been working towards a medicare-for-all style single payer solution to our healthcare crisis. That said, I am open to other ideas about how to fulfill the great moral calling we have to solve, what in my opinion, is the greatest problem facing our society. I agree with Dr. Carson's diagnosis of the healthcare system, but have reservations about some of his prescriptions. I have been pleasantly very surprised by his recognition that the "for profit" model of health insurance is immoral and repugnant. While I find the idea of the HSA to be interesting, the Dr's comparison of the HSA to food stamps seems to be a stretch. For this simple reason: the range of necessary caloric intake between different people is pretty narrow. A big guy might need a little more food to get through the day than a tiny person. However, in terms of healthcare, someone with a chronic debilitating illness will have expenses that far surpass the needs of someone of average health. And the person suffering from serious illness will blow through their HSA very quickly and it will have nothing to do with their being responsible or irresponsible. I expect the Dr. has some explanation involving a "catastrophic" fund which kicks in for cases like this, but I would like to know what the specifics of how that would work are. Also, Dr. Carson talks a lot about how much money we would save if the indigent would go to "the clinic" instead of the emergency room. I'm not sure what "clinic" he is talking about. Many communities do have clinics for the poor, but these are charity clinics, oftentimes. Would he support the creation of publicly funded care clinics that fulfill these needs? Or is this where the HSA kicks in? Finally, the Dr. says that people "can just go to the emergency room" if they are really sick. I heard him say this in this talk and also read it in one of his books. This, at best, is a willfully ignorant statement. For example, is Dr. Carson suggesting that if a person develops cancer, for example, that they can just go to the emergency room to receive treatment? The answer is, of course they can't. The only way their cancer will be treated by going to the emergency room is if, for example, they have a tumor in their throat that is threatening to block their airway, or some other scenario where the patient is in IMMEDIATE mortal danger. The ER does not give someone dying from cancer access to chemotherapy or radiation therapy, etc. I believe Dr. Carson is sincere in his aspirations, however, perpetuating the myth that sick people "can just go to the emergency room" does a great disservice to the dialogue because it creates a wildly distorted perception of reality. The result of this distortion is that it allows us to insulate our consciences from the horrific reality many people encounter in the face of a medical crisis with inadequate coverage.

[@dmitriwright997]

Amen!

[@pineytank]

TrickyEmu read it... right...

[@zoetele123]

Me in my future

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