Well, maybe insurance is part fo the problem, but not health insurance :D On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >>
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