Regarding the governments health care bill.......I have a big problem trying to sort out how the government is going to control the cost of health insurance and tell them they can only charge a given amount per month, when it can cost them about $5000 a day in a hospital. It just doesn’t make any sense. Unless of course they don’t let you go to the hospital. I’m not that worried about the cost of my doctor.My doctor’s office call is about $80/visit. I was in the hospital for a day and a half and the cost was $15,000, plus the cost for visiting doctors, that I didn’t even know or request. The cost for them was about another $3000.
We never hear about the government looking into the amount a hospital charges Vs insurance. The whole thing needs to be brought together some how. You can’t just look at insurance and forget the costs of hospitals. It isn’t fair to the insurance companies. I’m not saying they don’t over charge but we need to look at the whole picture.
This administration took advantage of the lack of information consumers have about the way insurance/hospitals work.
The ‘government’ has basically exploited the situation just to capitalize on the confusion and misinformation.
Nice...huh??? This is the same gov’t that is elected BY us to PROTECT our interests!!
“Unless of course they don’t let you go to the hospital.”
Won’t work in the short term. Fewer patients means they spread the overhead costs over fewer patients which means the costs for those patients goes up till they can eliminate overhead which will reduce availability of health care.
That is part of the point,we pay high prices at the hospitals to cover the costs of those who can’t afford to pay,so Obamacare comes along and guess what ,we are going to pay for free care for those same people ,even more when they get free preventative care the costs are going to skyrocket.
So much for reform and lower costs it is just an expansion of the welfare state and if you are working all you get is a larger bill and longer waits for care and rationing and the ax when you become a senior citizen
I think the insurers were afraid to publicly oppose the bill because it would feed into Obama’s portrayal of them as ruthless profiteers. As the bills were written in secret the industry got the best deal they could get which was no public option and no price caps. Though health insurers know ObamaCare will ultimately lead to their federalization, they can survive if the program is repealed or gutted by a Republican Congress. The pharmaceutical makers made okay. They get 30 million more customers and the act prohibits the purchase of medications by individuals from offshore. Trial lawyers and their medical malpractice racket remain intact and unions got the tax on Cadillac plans deferred for six years.