Sonny Clark
Diamond Member
- Banned
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Just like water, food, shelter, and clothing, proper health care is a necessity. But, because it is a necessity, it has become a racket, a scam, a con, and legalized theft. Those in the medical and health care profession know that people can't set their own bones, stitch themselves up, remove kidney stones, and perform their own organ transplants. We all need those in the health care profession, there's no other choice. When people have no choice, it opens the doors for those that see easy money and a means to take unfair advantage of the situation.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/18/health/cost-of-health-care-poll.html?ref=health
•A bill of over $40,000 for the 20 minutes it took a doctor to stitch a cut.
Something is bad wrong when a hospital can charge $1,800 a day for a tiny filthy room, $5.00 for an aspirin, and $20.00 for a breakfast that consist of powdered eggs and wheat toast. Something is bad wrong when a doctor can charge $300.00 for an office visit that consist of a five minute conversation. Something is bad wrong when a single blood pressure pill cost $200.00.
Pharmaceuticals, labs, clinics, hospitals, doctors, and others in the health care and medical profession, are exercising price gouging and getting away with it. Insurance companies are also contributing to this outrage. But, even though insurance companies are taking part in the scam, it's actually those that over-bill for services that are to blame for the soaring cost to consumers. Insurance companies operate on the information contained in bills submitted by health care providers.
What makes matters even worse, is the fact that many receive less than satisfactory service, and some even die from mal-practice and infections acquired while in the hospital. Doctors often try to justify their fees by stating that they pay enormous amounts for mal-practice insurance. Well, if everyone in the medical and health care industry would clean up their own profession, there would be far fewer mal-practice law suits.
Another excuse given for high cost is the cost of equipment such as MRI machines. An MRI cost around $4,000 and up. How long does it take at that rate before the machine has paid for itself? And, does the cost for an MRI dramatically decrease after the machine has paid for itself? The bottom line is that health care is a scam and it's a legal scam. Its legalized theft. And, it's bankrupting America.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/18/health/cost-of-health-care-poll.html?ref=health
•A bill of over $40,000 for the 20 minutes it took a doctor to stitch a cut.
- • An ambulance ride of only 200 feet that cost $3,421.
- • A healthy, insured couple “slowly going under” because their premiums, co-pays and deductibles are now twice as high as their mortgage and food costs.
Something is bad wrong when a hospital can charge $1,800 a day for a tiny filthy room, $5.00 for an aspirin, and $20.00 for a breakfast that consist of powdered eggs and wheat toast. Something is bad wrong when a doctor can charge $300.00 for an office visit that consist of a five minute conversation. Something is bad wrong when a single blood pressure pill cost $200.00.
Pharmaceuticals, labs, clinics, hospitals, doctors, and others in the health care and medical profession, are exercising price gouging and getting away with it. Insurance companies are also contributing to this outrage. But, even though insurance companies are taking part in the scam, it's actually those that over-bill for services that are to blame for the soaring cost to consumers. Insurance companies operate on the information contained in bills submitted by health care providers.
What makes matters even worse, is the fact that many receive less than satisfactory service, and some even die from mal-practice and infections acquired while in the hospital. Doctors often try to justify their fees by stating that they pay enormous amounts for mal-practice insurance. Well, if everyone in the medical and health care industry would clean up their own profession, there would be far fewer mal-practice law suits.
Another excuse given for high cost is the cost of equipment such as MRI machines. An MRI cost around $4,000 and up. How long does it take at that rate before the machine has paid for itself? And, does the cost for an MRI dramatically decrease after the machine has paid for itself? The bottom line is that health care is a scam and it's a legal scam. Its legalized theft. And, it's bankrupting America.