[Uversabound]

limit with all the Welfare and other transfer payments that I support.

My husband had a motorcyle accident before we met.

They told him, if you did not have a job, we could help you but you work.

The bill collectors called while he was still healing(1 year recovery)which hurt too!

But he paid it all, for what insurance did not cover.

Silly us workers.

[kaila]

My solution:
1. All patients must pay a copay at time of service, no matter how poor you are. No money, no service
2. This whole emphasis on prevention is crap. Preventative care is easy- lose weight, stop smoking, dont do drugs, dont drink and drive. items like pap smears , mammograms , should be paid out of pocket. Those costs will go down if the providers dont have to hire an army of staff to process paperwork. If you get cervical cancer because you were too cheap to pay for a pap smear, too bad.
3. Rank medical services and payments on severity. We should not have to pay for ER visits for colds and flus.
4. Stop the regulations that are unnecessary. Why do hospitals have to do diversity training? Stop the paperwork!
5. We need to know when to call it quits. The most money is spent on the last year of life, when we have 80 year old people on ventilators because their family cannot let go. If you are Christian, and you believe that we should sustain life no matter the cost, then your church can pay the medical bills.Maybe your church can sponsor a hospital, and pay exxtroudinary end of life care to those patients in the hospital.
6.Treat and street. Hospitals should not have to hire an army of social workers because Mr Drug Abuser lives in the street. Discharge him to the street.