On Saturday 11 March 2006 20:58, Net Llama! wrote: > I don't know where you live, or what insurance you have, but none of the > above has ever been true in my personal experience, and I've lived in > several states and had several different insurance plans over my (short) > lifetime. Quite often, especially in urban & suburban areas where there > are alot of doctors (and patients) the better doctors can afford to be > picky about which health insurance plans they accept, and it tends to be > those that are willing to pay them higher rates. Over time, the better > doctors start dropping the less 'competitive' insurance plans, or just > stop accepting new patients from them.
What's happening in my area is the insurance companies create their "networks" which doctors agree to certain price caps, or they don't. If you go to an "out of network" doctor/dentist/etc... not only do you pay higher prices (because the caps don't save you) but the insurance company will often cover less percentage-wise as well. And I'm paying through the nose for insurance compared to 4 years ago. > > I'm not at all convinced of that. The healthcare systems in much of > Europe seem to be miles better than Canada from what I've read & heard. > And the Canadians that I've spoken to, never complained about the > quality of healthcare that they're getting either. I'd argue that most > people never need an MRI or CT scan in their lives, so throwing out that > story about how wealthy canadians are the only ones who can get one > seems like a corner case used just to make a point. Yes, but how high a tax do they pay for it? In Germany a few years ago they were paying 50% of their income in taxes. > I'd say this is one of the cases where we need to destroy it to save it. Probably. Now if we could only agree on how to do that! ;) -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems * Network Server Appliances * Security Consulting, Incident Handling & Forensics * Network Consulting, Integration & Support * Web Integration and E-Business _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
