On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote: > On 31 Aug 2009, at 15:23, Charles Bennett wrote: >> Cancer? You want to be in the US > > Yeah, we acknowledge that you're the best at cancer; that's well- > known. What about the rest?
The thing is if you start breaking down those numbers, and the numbers for other diseases by race and economic status the numbers start to change quite a bit. Basically if you can afford health care you do ok. The problem now is health care is becoming less and less affordable. Where I work we have changed health care providers 3 times in 3 years. Aetna the prior one wanted to double the rates or more because we were in their words "using our health care too much." Note the company I work for is not a small one, and does very, very well. I work for a financial firm, one of the few that is mostly unaffected by what is going on because we don't deal with equities. Anyway when you have companies jacking rates up to the point where coverage is no longer feasible just because we use what we pay for there is a problem. This is why a real profit motive is a bad thing in health care. Some profit is fine but not at that level. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
