Everybody will join in on the ACA government bailout gravy train.
If it will get the government out of it,it might be a way to go. Not sure what other implications might be as yet.
Fine — end insurance companies. Instead, make sure everyone has a fully-funded MSA.
What you will have then is defense attorney, prosecutor, judge and jury all on the same team, THE HOSPITAL TEAM.
Guess who gets screwed, YOU DO.
Right now, the prosecutor (bill collector) is the hospital, and the defense attorney is the insurance company (trying to pay as little as possible) and the judge and jury are the competitive market place.
Hail Kaiser?
I thought they didn’t like HMOs but isn’t that another name for what they are creating?
Here ya go ... :-) ...
Hospitals Plot the End of Insurance Companies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138021/posts
... from earlier ... we had some good discussions here ...
Regional solutions at best
They are cutting their noses off to spite their faces. What an idiotic thing to do. Do they really understand what they are in for or is it another extortion?
It has been my opinion for several decades, that having a middle-man in the health care chain, was a massive mistake.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are siphoned off the health care provision industry each year, without providing a dimes worth of health care to the public.
How would we like it, if when our food supply was ready to go to the market, we had to have food insurance to be able to buy the food products we need?
Would we want to see $750 billion in food insurance profits each year, realizing that $750 billion had been siphoned out of family’s pockets, reducing the money that went directly for food?
IMO, get the insurance companies out of that mix, and it goes a long way to making our health care a lot more healthy.
It frees up a massive amount of money to go directly to health care establishments, for the provision of actual services directly to patients.
What is a big hospital corp with a large slice of a state’s hospital business and running a “preferred provider network” of doctors and other healthcare providers as well? A cartel.