The letter from Florida Blue arrived yesterday and my insurance premiums will have a 350% increase starting this January. Affordable Care Act? Thanks Barry! Thanks Harry! Thanks Nancy! Thanks Democrats!
What the hell happened to my savings of $2,500 a year?
Yeah, blame Obamacare. Don't blame those who have pushed for all the corruption.
How much do you have to pay just for the insurance company? A completely UNNECESSARY waste of space, and you have to pay loads just for them to do something useless and then make profits on it.
How much do you pay in drugs costing too much? Doctors choosing the most ridiculously expensive drug when a cheap one would do? How much do you have to pay for hospital profits, and for them to charge you for anything and everything.
The UK spends half what the US pays for healthcare, and people in the UK have complained (mostly the rich) that it costs too much. If you paid more than the UK pays for healthcare you'd have a decent system, AND pay less.
But no, blame Obama for trying to get poor people having insurance.
First, while there is some amount of corruption, there isn't nearly as much as you think. The ObamaCare bill was not pushed by the companies. It was pushed by Obama.
The costly regulations that have been driving up health care costs for decades were not pushed by the companies, they were pushed by the left.
The health insurance and hospitals didn't call up Obama and say "hey let's screw up the health care industry with costly stupid regulations!"
No, Obama called up the health care industry and said "I'm going to screw up the health industry with regulations. Do you have any suggestions?".
Second, if insurance companies were in fact unnecessary and a waste, then we would never have used them to start with. Funny how the Canadians actually sued their own government for the right to have private insurance, and France, Germany and numerous other countries, all have private insurance on top of their expensive gov-care system.
So oddly it would seem that most of the people in 1st world countries all believe insurance isn't a waste.
Third, while you claim that the UK spend half as much on health care, that isn't entirely true.
They spend less, because they get less. It's easy to say then spend half as much, when they don't get nearly as much.
25 cancer drugs to be denied on NHS
But hey... it keeps costs down.
Can I demand a specific treatment? - Health questions - NHS Choices
Straight from the NHS web site:
Remember that:
some types of treatment aren't available on the NHS
But at least it's cheaper! In fact not getting treatment is universally cheaper.
'I went abroad for prostate cancer therapy... and I'm sending the NHS
"While the NHS acknowledges the benefits of proton therapy and plans to build its own centres, many patients are given inferior treatments simply because the cost of sending patients to the US for this treatment – well over £100,000 - is too high.”
There you go. Yeah, we'll get that treatment here.... eventually.... but for now the cost is just too high, so you get this inferior treatment, and hope you live. Yeah, maybe you'd like a say in that, but since we're footing the bill, we'll make that call for you.
You know.... so we keep cost down. Wouldn't want to be as expensive as the US.
This is the problem dude. Comparing US to the UK health care, is not an apples to apples comparison. Never has been.
Every time they have compared real survival rates on nearly everything, the US does better, and by a wide margin.
Do you really want to cut costs and risk dying more? You really want to cause literally millions of people to die, to save a few bucks?
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