jreeves
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- Feb 12, 2008
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By your analysis, they are already the employees of profit driven insurance companies, who let people die for profit. The insurance companies are spreading confusion about the payer/provider distinction, because they know people hate
insurance companies and love their own doctors. The bean counters who keep your doctor from treating you as he or she sees fit are the only ones affected by my suggestion.
As to the efficacy of private insurance, remember this: 68 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy had health insurance. Between co-pays, deductibles, pre-existing conditions, and other denials of payment, too many people are paying huge sums for a service that fails to keep them from financial ruin.
With Universal Health Care in place, up to 50% of all bankruptcies could be avoided. Universal Health Care could reevent a huge drain on the economy.
You keep bringing up that 50% of bankruptcies could be avoided through universal healthcare. How about reforming bankruptcy, to make it more affordable to repay that average of $12,000 in medical debt? Why not mandate individuals to repay their bankruptcy debt through public service? Wouldn't this also eliminate the drain on the economy?