Fine. So someone who knows nothing but thinks they’re insured gets turned away. They end up thinking the guy who denied treatment ought to get shot.
Perhaps insurance should cover emergencies and life saving treatments only. Car insurance doesn’t pay for tune ups or oil changes so patients should pay for blood tests and check ups. Health savings accounts are the answer,
“Perhaps insurance should cover emergencies and life saving treatments only.”
I grew up with hospitalization only coverage.
My mom paid for the doctor visits and prescriptions by check.
I have yet to have had an outpatient prescription paid for by insurance. I’m 66.
I’ll probably be getting a flu shot soon. It would for me be the first vaccination to be paid for by insurance.
I’ve never been an emergency room patient.
“Health savings accounts are the answer”
Structural reforms are needed - splitting up hospitals, reforming medical & dental education, fixed profit health care cost coverage wherein insureds bear the risk collectively, etc.
Most sick people will tell you they have more skin in the game than they’d like.