“”health insurance should be a simple catastrophic plan. Otherwise, pay for basic care””
I believe so too. We all (if we had any) had Major Medical long before changes were made to the current system and it worked pretty darn good. I worked for a company in the early ‘50’s that covered its employees with Major Medical. I had major emergency surgery at the age of 20 and never saw a bill and paid for the doctor appointments out of my pocket at the time of the appointments. The hospital called my employer and the paperwork was done as I was sent off to surgery. I don’t believe we even had insurance cards to carry.
Years later my husband and I had our own business and carried catastrophic insurance only as that’s all we could afford. We saw doctors once a year for checkups and paid for that from our pockets. Didn’t need them for anything else.
Good thread, Auntie Mame....Must be the weather is keeping you inside? LOL!!
Our daughter’s neurologist has stopped taking insurance from his patients - cash only from now on. She’s seen him for 13 years and it’s impossible to get an appointment with a new neurologist now for at least 3 months. It’s not only the public that is fed up with this. It also goes for the doctors.
My husband’s urologist overbooks patients (like an airline) but he says he has to, to make it worthwhile to even open his office. A 3 -3 1/2 hour wait in the waiting room is not unheard of. Very annoying but then we enjoyed having a 15 minute discussion with him about the campaigns and the upcoming election while he did his work - HA! Good to patronize a conservative doctor!