Posted on 08/10/2022 4:25:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Our health care system is on life support, afflicted by the diseases of greed, incompetence, immorality, selfishness, politicization, and loss of good sense and ethics.
“They are trying to kill me!” The worst words anyone wants to hear from their loved one.
One might imagine hearing those words when you are on the phone with your loved who is being brutally attacked as they cry out for you to save them.
But it is not. This fear-stricken cry for help from your loved one is caused by someone they trusted, that you trusted -- it is your doctor who wields the weapons of death.
The United States had the greatest healthcare system in the world. This status was achieved because the doctors swore as part of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to their patient
SNIP
The descent into the nightmare began slowly in the mid-1900s when government and insurance companies began their intrusion into healthcare with no concern for the fraud that would ensue. As a small child then I knew it was not going to end well when I heard a doctor at the hospital bragging that he could charge anything he wanted because Medicare would pay anything. Many years later when I was working for a worker’s compensation insurance company, we were told by the state government to pay all claims even if we could prove fraud. Ben Franklin foresaw this potential for fraud if people figured out they could write themselves a blank government check which would cause costs to spiral upwards. This spiraling of costs was clearly seen when Obamacare (ACA) which caused health insurance premiums to soar upwards to $2000/month with high deductibles so that healthcare was no longer affordable – the professed intent of ACA.
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What we have now is 0bamacare. Pronounced: ZEE-ROO Care.
What we have now is 0bamacare. Pronounced: ZEE-ROO Care.
The whole thing was based on jealousy. Some folks had medical benefits and some did not. Guess what happened...
Now, medicine has become politicized.
Medicine has become socialized.
We now have a de facto NHS.
Clap for carers!
I’m old enough to remember when almost no one had health insurance. If you got sick, you went to Dr. Greene or Dr. Bolt or whoever you liked, and they would fix you up right there in the office. If you needed medicine, most times he would have it there and give it to you, if not he wrote you a prescription and it would cost 2 dollars or so at the drugstore. the Dr. charged 8 dollars.
THEN came medicare. NOW the cost is not handled by the patient, but by the gubmint. Prices skyrocketted.
Want to fix health care?
1. Since Physicians cannot by law own insurance companies or hospitals, hospitals and insurance companies cannot subsidize or own Physicians.
2. Physicians employed by insurance companies, hospitals, or corporate groups, subsidized by hospitals and insurance companies, or contracted thereof, cannot bill Medicare or Medicaid for Physician services. That gets rolled into the DRG payments or into the Medicare advantage package. Those payments now subsidize independent contractors. Keep independent physicians who answer to the patients.
3. Federal mandate that if an insurance company must either contract with physicians to care for patients, or are subject to pay billed charges. They are 100% legally and financially responsible to provide care for their insured and subject to damages as well as pain and suffering if timely care not provided.
4. Americans, trained in America, get a higher level of re-imbursement from Medicaid and Medicare. Stop the insourcing.
5. Allow unfettered, non-religious access to medi-share type organizations. They can collectively bargain, decide lowest risk patients, and pay bills.
6. Congress has only the same medical coverage as the standard Medicare patient. Further, congress MUST follow all ethics laws placed upon Physicians. If it’s good for doctors it’s good for Congress!
7. Make information, about the cost of treating a disease(s) per year by provider available. That’s good for Physicians, insurance, and the public. Take care to prevent ‘coders’ from pilling on diagnosis for profit.
My wife and I are currently 68 on the day that the mandate went into effect, January 1st, 2013, was the first day in my entire life that I started going without health insurance. And I’ve been there my whole life since. We learned to trust in the great healer and he has been very faithful. And on a side note, we’ve saved over six figures in after tax dollars on health insurance costs
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up... Truth is, the American Dairy Association has one heck of a lot more credibility then the American Medical Association..
The doctors that we see are always changing “billing contractors” so our bills seem to be a long time in coming (some over 8 months to receive). Or when we go to the doctor, we have to fill out new forms for the new company they hired to handle their billing. It is ridiculous. What pisses me off is that the doctors cannot by law charge cash paying patients the discounted price that insurance companies pay, they are suppose to charge what the insurance companies are charge before their discount.
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