Its interesting to know that one of the largest hospital systems in Ontario has a grand total of 3 or 4 people to handle insurance paperwork. In the US its 3 or 4 people per doctor's office.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > From talking to actual Canadians who use the system every day and talking to > actual Brits, and talking people who live in a few other countries where > they have socialized medicine...while it may not be perfect (what system > is?)...it is far better than what we have now in the US. When you have no > more barriers to getting preventive care, you detect issues earlier, which > also means, in most cases, it's also a lot cheaper to treat and it also > reduces the amounts of people going to ER's for issues that should be > getting retaken care of in the doctors offices. Plus, with a single system > of payment, it removes the layers and layers of complexity that doc's > offices have to deal with for payment. There are a lot of cost reductions > in socialized medicine that do offset a lot of the increases in costs that > the government picks up by sponsoring health care. > > I think the biggest deception in this whole issue is that opponents of > healthcare have convinced the teabaggers that there is a difference between > paying a premium to them and paying your premiums via taxes. The only > difference there is who is getting paid. So if you taxes go up and you no > longer have to pay an insurance premium (in the case of single payer), there > really is no logical difference in what is happening with your money. With > single payer, there is a good possibility that because this would be spread > out amongst a much larger pool of people, that what you are paying may be > considerably less. So meanwhile the dumbass teabaggers, who have been duped > into bitching about resultant tax hikes form this, keep screaming about > taxes, the insurance company is laughing at their rubes all the way to the > bank. > > Personally...I would rather pay the government and know that I can get > treatment without going bankrupt than deal with the insurance companies and > hospitals, knowing tat I will have to declare bankruptcy to deal with all my > medical bills since I don't have access to insurance(which is something I am > facing right now). > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Sisk [mailto:ks...@gckschools.com] > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:08 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Shocker: Major corporations may dump health insurance, pay > penalties instead > > > Personally I trust the government about as far as I trust big coorporations, > which is to say not at all. The government is probably the single most > corrupt organization in the nation and big corporations see us as nothing > more than a means to make money regardless of any harm done in pursuit of > that goal. Insurance companies in particular are among the biggest offenders > of that, but I don't believe it'd be any better (or worse) under a fully > government run program. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317838 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
