This is what a world without Obamacare or Single Payer looks like

Newchoicehealth ^ | nov 22 2014 | Anne Saker

[Still Thinking]

LOL! Reminds me of Fred Brooks programming book, where he wrote that “Bearing a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

[Still Thinking]

Then they make you sign that you’ll pay when you get the bill. If they can decide the amount of the bill ex post facto, then you should get to decide whether to pay in the same manner.

[Sequoyah101]

There are just not enough of these alternatives to make a big impact.

People have been conditioned to believe the hospital or big clinic are a monopoly, that there are no alternatives. The markup for a lab suite is 1000%. In a normal competitive market you or I should be able to do this for 500% and still be quite profitable and happy with our profit. Indeed, someone could be quite happy to do it for 250% profit undercutting costs by approximately 75% from the norm.

Why isn’t it done? Becuause the regulators and the medical emprie have created and protect their monopoly.

Eisenhower got it wrong. It is not the vast military industrial complex we should have feared. It is the VAST MEDICAL COMPLEX that has consumed us and takes 1/4 of our economy and yet still never has enough.

[robroys woman]

The cool thing is that we can still opt out, which is what my wife and I have done. Thing is, we understand that life is a very brief time and that yes, we will all die. And with hard times comes learning - like when my wife’s first husband died of leukemia in his late 20’s, without insurance, leaving her with three kids under the age of six.

She and I are now 63 and living the happiest days of our lives, and those three kids are doing great.

We don’t need the government to live happy and joyful lives, other than the military that protects us from without and the police and laws/courts that protect us from within. And the latter is becoming a bit of an enemy these days.