Healthcare has just gotten ridiculously expensive. I am losing all sympathy for doctors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health insurance providers. Doctors want to give you every kind of test perform every kind of procedure they can get away with just to jack up their fees. Hospitals jack you around so they can get their cut too. They all just want every dime they can soak you for, every penny they can get from your insurance provider and more. Insurance companies keep jacking their rates and providing us less and less coverage. Everybody just wants to get rich, and you pretty much have to be rich to get decent healthcare. My daughter and I had to get rabies shots recently. I only needed a couple of booster shots because I had them before. She needed the full course. We had to go through the hospital because no one else had the vaccine. After our expensive insurance paid all it was going to pay, we still owed well over five grand, for a few shots. Every time we went we had to wait several hours, even when we called in advance and asked them to please have the shots ready when we got there. I only had two shots in two weeks, my daughter had seven or eight over the course of several weeks. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the final bill. Our insurance premiums keep going up at a pace much faster than normal inflation, and coverage keeps getting worse. I don't know what the answer is but something needs to be done about this or the average guy won't be able to afford healthcare and the government will go broke providing what it provides.
The tests aren’t neccessarily to jack up fees, but to
protect the doctor against malpractice.
If there was meaningful tort reform this wouldn’t be the
problem it is.