Ray From Cleveland
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Because we aren't managing it like a public service, dummy.
We are managing it like a business. And we are getting those kinds of results... mostly bad one.
We pay more than anyone else, and we get the worst results.
Oh yes, government does so much better than the private market. What kind of mail service do you get? How about those bus drivers? Amtrak? How many state road workers do you see standing around in a construction site?
Government is a failure at most anything they are involved in. Talk to somebody who has to totally rely on the VA for healthcare services. Look up at how terrible of a program Medicaid is. Government isn't the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Ed Hanaway alone got 99,000,000 to STOP working. Multiply that by hundreds of companies, and hundreds of executives, and um, yeah, you get lots of money being pissed away.
55 billion spent to make sure you get it right is a pretty good deal.
It has little to do with getting it right and everything to do with protecting yourself from ambulance chasers in this country.
Really? Never been charged $3500 for a earache. Usually, they just give me something for it and that's it. If it doesn't go away in a week, then MAYBE they send you to a specialist, but if it doesn't go away in a week, there's probably something more seriously wrong.
I see plenty of doctors, and trust me, they all do the same thing.
Years ago an insurance company would only pay for a specialist if your doctor recommended one. In more recent years, insurance companies will pay for specialists by your own choice because it saves them the money for a doctors visit which they know will end up with you seeing a specialist anyway.
If your doctor does decide to treat you, he or she will run you through every test imaginable even if those tests have nothing to do with the condition you came in for. So why run those tests? For liability protection.
No, because it's being paid into a trust fund that is still running surpluses, or at least it was until fairly recently.
Yes, and you can thank Ears for that.
Medicare will be broke in ten years from today. In the meantime, the program is partially funded with our tax dollars not in the Medicare system, and again, they've been able to keep their heads above water by not paying the full price of medical procedures. If our private insurance agencies could get away doing that, our healthcare premiums would be a third less today than they were ten years ago.