I don’t pretend to be an expert on insurance or health care but I do know when I was growing up health care was affordable even for those without insurance other than truly poor people and there were charity hospitals for them. Insurance rates were very reasonable then too.
As more people became insured the cost of both insurance and health care went up. The more the government got involved the more insurance and health care went up as well.
It would be great if there was a way to get both the government and insurance companies out- seems to me people dealing directly with providers really worked.
I also know there used to be a lot of Catholic hospitals but not sure what happened to that.
It just seems it gets more and more expensive to get health care, and insurance as it has been recently is not an affordable option to pay for health care.
I thought the key might be changing and/or doing away with regulations on insurance as far as where it would be sold to encourage competition thus lowering costs. Now I don’t seem to hear people talking about that either.
I don’t pretend to be an expert on insurance or health care but I do know when I was growing up health care was affordable even for those without insurance other than truly poor people and there were charity hospitals for them. Insurance rates were very reasonable then too.
Absolutely right. And I remember it was unusual for us to even go to the doctor. My mom fixed us up with Vaseline, aspirin or Mercurochrome. That was it. They used to also make deals with our family doctor because he would see three of us at one time and only charged one visit. Those were the good old days