On 03/11/2006 03:44 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
Net Llama! wrote:
On 03/11/2006 09:11 AM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
[snip]
And then apply what we've learned to the healthcare system.
Personally I hate how the Insurance companies run our lives. I hate
that the doctors and hospitals and drug companies charge *truly
outrageous* amounts, and that they know they can because the Insurance
companies milk employers and employees alike. I am all for a
healthcare revolution... but not by a government most interested in
power and money and re-election to the detriment of their constituents.
I agree 100%. Finally someone in this thread understands my viewpoint.
Understand yes. Is it correct? No.
Pity that I wasn't asking for your judgement.
The true culprit in the health care mess is Medicare. Medicare fixes
costs, not prices, costs, and then demands the providers to function
within that cost structure. The insurance companies are basing their
reimbursements off of Medicare's UCR. The truth is that Doctors can't
keep up with medical practice standards and insurance standards, it is
beyond human capacity. Frequently, the Doctor doesn't know what, or if,
the insurance will pay for a needed procedure.
I don't know whether this is accurate, but it doesn't sound so. The
majority of people in the US are not using Medicare, so I fail to see
how it can be blamed for poisoning the rest of the rest of the medical
industry.
The embarrassment factor in our health care is that what Doctors charge
is irrelevant. That means that the uninsured are charged the highest
prices of anyone being treated. If you are insured in America, you have
access to the best, and most timely, care in the world.
Hardly. Being insured means that you have access to whatever healthcare
the insurance company is willing to pay for, which is more often than
not, the cheapest, worst healthcare. Again, you get what you pay for.
If you want the best healthcare in the world, you pay for it all out of
pocket, in the US, and then you're set. Very few of us are
independently wealthy enough to pay for our own health care. I know
that I'm not, especially when a simple annual physical is billed for
$450 (and that's not even counting the lab fees for the blood work).
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