This is the way I see it. Only 10% of the population consume 90% of health care costs: cancer patients, elderly who are hospitalized with stroke , heart attacks, etc, and some chronic illnesses such as kidney disease, Chrone’s disease. Most people use very little of the health care budget. Dr visits are inexpensive compared to hospital stays. So here we are relatively healthy and paying into our HMO’s supporting the needs of the 10%. Eventually we will work our way up the ladder and we will fall into that 10% and there will be young healthy people paying into the HMo’s paying for our hospital stay.
So if you have Leukemia anything and everything should be done to make your quality of life better and I will be happy that my contribution to my HMO made it possible. When and if the government takes over all bets are off, our money will go to pay a new czar of band aids.
Thank you. The interesting thing about this is the Physical Therapist who is helping my wife had the same cancer 14 years ago.