Posted on 03/19/2016 5:16:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The real question: Is there a better way to get someone else to pay to my medical care? The best way to approach medical care is quite simple: Contract for services and pay for them yourself. It seems to work for almost everything else in our economy.
Given the stunts I've seen insurance companies pull, years before Obamacare, public demand for socialized medicine was an inevitable reaction.
I should think that the insurance companies would welcome being, in effect, nationalized. The managers currently in the industry would become government officials. Their employees would become infireable and unaccountable government employees.
Get rid of the lawyers and health care is cheap. Sorry, but you or your precious snowflake might not be worth $4.6 million if a doctor tries to treat you and the outcome isn’t perfect. My toddler and I once got the squirts in a third world country and went to the clinic. We got checked over and he got several extra tests because he was so young. We walked out with a sackful of meds and the total bill was $11. Suing over everything wasn’t known there and health care was affordable. The biggest expense most doctors have here is malpractice insurance.
You are probably correct. Rush doesn’t have health insurance (his choice) and pays the costs out of his own pocket.
“Cruz will repeal 0bamacare. What will Trump do?”
Beg your pardon, but not one objectionable law has been repeal over the last decades even when the GOP had the Houses.
There is no left or right; there is only one ideological group and we aren’t in it.
what a ridiculous article - 8th grader prolly.
Yeah you missed it. It was in the next to last paragraph where he wrote that he wants to shell out $1200 for the scan, but CIGNA told him it doesn’t work that way.
About half the states in the country have already enacted tort reform that caps malpractice awards. And while there is some evidence that the reforms have reduced medical malpractice insurance premiums there is no evidence that it has reduced health care premiums.
” Contract for services and pay for them yourself. It seems to work for almost everything else in our economy.” 23 and Me, does genetic testing that will tell what diseases you will get. You can adjust your like accordingly. The rest of your needs through Health Care Accounts. Science leapfrogs politics.
you are confused - look how many executive orders OblaBla has issued to support ACA. The next prez can issue another Exec Order rescinding all previous exec orders. Obamacare would self-implode.
Insurance companies negotiate lower prices because of volume and the assurance that the medical provider is going to get paid the agreed upon rate. Why should your doctor do that for an individual?
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Your article does not address any of the questions I raised. Would you like to try?
I am now over 65, and am required to have Medicare. Voilà, "free" insurance. This now means triple bills, one for Medicare, one for my Medgap, and one for me. The bills sometimes are pennies - less than the stamp to send it to me. Some procedures that I would be willing to pay for myself are impossible to get. My physician is not allowed to prescribe something that Medicare does not pay for. He loses his ability to bill all other Medicare bills for everyone, if he does.
There are billions to be saved by giving patients more control over their medical bills.
Unfortunately his insurance won’t let him pay for it.
The Trump Obamacare replacement plan is generally no different from most other Republican plans, other than he's quite late to the party, and is missing some critical pieces.
Precisely. In that regard it's just like a public education.
The big problem with healthcare is its cost, not how to pay for it
Sure nothing works. Carry on...
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