how would that possibly work? “providers on a global budget, paying a set amount intended to cover a patients medical care for an entire year... “ A patients medical care,so the singular? They would allocate $2000 for one person and $3000 for another? I could be typing all day detailing the problems with that method.
Carpetbagger shapeshifter Romney:
"My Death Panel is now the first. Now, you will all love me. Right?
Death to the handicapped and the old we choose.
Now, you all will love me long time, right?"
"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"
"Romneys mistreatments a sick man, as Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient"
Partner's and Beth Israel have gobbled up everything in sight.
They behave like monopolies.
Peter Schiff and others are correct.
We have too much insurance, not too little. Insurance should be reserved for catastrophic events and not routine, or chronic situations.
I realized this a few years ago. When I quit my job as I relocated. I went to see my familiar doctor for a checkup before I completely pulled up stakes and moved cross country. When I mentioned to his assistant that I intended to PAY for my visit, minus insurance, she was befuddled. After making a couple of calls to make doubly sure, she said my $ 100 visit (insured) would cost me $ 60 if I really did pay in cash/check (as I said I would). Reason? No filing of insurance to any company or gov’t office.
To test this, call your own provider and ask her or him the price of the visit if you pay by check or cash.
If the people want true insurance, where the risk is spread across the entire community, instead of a system which allows premium collecting outfits, as opposed to true insurance companies, to cherry pick the no risk/low risk insureds and refuse coverage to the rest, then it costs a great deal of money. The fact of the matter is, as some on FR have learned, if you can’t afford or can’t get coverage at any price and get sick, the government often ends up paying something on one’s medical bills, and the rest of us get the bill, or one loses everything and goes bankrupt, or if one has little then the government pays something and the rest gets paid by those of us who still have insurance.
We see this all the time in our law practice. This isn’t even remotely a simple issue and it certainly isn’t one which lends itself to sloganeering. We recently had a couple in the office who were planning to move to Florida. The wife has a medical condition. She is covered here but we were concerned that she might not get coverage down there. They checked and sure enough, no coverage for her condition. We have another client, a true hypocrite, who is the loudest mouth in town against the various health insurance proposals in the House. He also has no insurance because he can’t afford it and gets his treatment paid for by the government.