Sorry, but the whole concept of medical insurance in the US needs to be revisited. If I have a flat tire, or have to do an oil change, does my auto insurance cover it? No. Likewise, why does one need to get insurance into the mix for routine care? By its very definition, insurance, should be for catastrophic coverage and maybe for the very young. Yet, if I have have a cold, my super duper insurance system invariably gets involved. A simple visit will cost the system several hundreds of dollars. Yet, if one were to offer to pay the doctor cash, discounts of as much as 50% are quite normal. The proposed reforms will do very little to cut down such overhead and in the long run, will probably increase costs - after all the government is a bottomless pit in its ability to print money. I say no to routine care coverage for the general population, including the aged. If the aged were not intelligent enough to plan for higher routine, non catastrophic medical costs, too bad. Likewise, most provisions of the extravagant medicare system passed by the equally wasteful Republicans that covers prescription drugs for seniors needs to be scrapped.
Bringing in insurance to deal with routine care leads to higher costs for the industry and masks the true costs for the end user. In the end however, someone has to pay for it, be it the employees, the government or whoever. Marlon ----- Original Message ---- From: Gilbert Lawrence <gilbert2...@yahoo.com> To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Mon, October 26, 2009 8:27:36 PM Subject: [Goanet] Healthcare in America With the political debate in USA about healthcare, all the worms are surfacing. See link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/health-care-system-wastes_n_333589.html Regards, GL
