I disagree that insurance is the reason costs are so high. I have known and worked with many doctors in my previous career. The #1 expense for most, if not all, of their practices was mal-practice insurance.
One friend who was an OB/GYN paid twice as much for malpractice insurance than the rent on the entire building the practice rented. Oh, yea, and he NEVER had a claim filed against him...ever. Why is malpractice so high? Well, partly because there are doctors out there who are not good at their jobs, but mostly because we live in a litigious society, and even the slightest negative side effect form a drug or procedure has us on the phone with a lawyer. In my opinion, we cannot get serious about 'healthcare reform' until we get serious about Tort reform. On a somewhat related note: my wife almost died form a ruptured ectopic pregnancy as she laid in a hospital room for 2 days while her dip shit doctors tried to figure out what was wrong (when they finally did, they discovered during surgery that she had over a liter of blood in her abdomen). While this seemed like a pretty obvious case of malpractice - we had no case because we could not prove any harm or injury had been done, other than the ruptured fallopian tube, which everyone is pretty sure ruptured before we even got to the hospital. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Pharma and insurance industry are the reason costs are so high. They have > artificially inflated it so that you have to have insurance. Why do you > think hospitals charge 30/pill for a .02 pill? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sisk, Kris [mailto:ks...@gckschools.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:26 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: RE: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party > > > Meh, insurance has never been the problem with American health care. > It's cost. When you can go across the border (either of them) and get > the exact same medicine from the exact same manufacturing plant for a > quarter of the cost there's a problem. When it costs the patient 20 > times the cost of a procedure because of malpractice insurance, there's > a problem. When it costs more to spend one night in a hospital than it > would cost to spend two weeks in a 5 star hotel, there's a problem. > > You fix those problems and maybe put some legislation in place forcing > medical insurance providers to be honest and we'd have no problems with > our health care system. As is though between the insane costs and the > dishonest medical insurance companies, we have a big problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:45 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What's also highly amusing is that according to these statistics over >> 54 million people in the United States are NOT covered by any sort of >> medical system.' > > It's more like 30 million without insurance. > > We have 10 million people are unemployed actually much more. > We have 30 million are illegal aliens so how many are in your count? > Half of the uninsured choose not to have insurance because they earn > enough money to cover all costs. > > I'm guessing there's only a few million that earn too much to qualify > for medicaid and too little to pay for insurance. > >> LOL! >> >> Sucks to be those people hahaha! >> >> They should have studied harder eh? :-) > >> The US healthcare system is in all ways superior to European. > > That's an odd claim. > >> The first and unassailable reason being that it is THE UNITED STATES' >> healthcare system. >> See those words in Capital Letters there? That's all you need to know >> that it is the best in the world. > > Where will you go when you need proper care? Cuba :P > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:326581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
