Truth is this has very little if anything to do with Obamacare. Companies are trying to reduce health insurance costs. Making people who do not take care of themselves pay a penalty is nothing new, they've been doing it to smokers for a long time. The funny thing is that most people don't even know the basics about their own health, such as their cholesterol level, their glucose level, their blood pressure, or their resting heart rate, their BMI, or their body fat percentage. These are all basics, and when all of these are within guidelines, one can assume that the person's overall health is pretty good.
If people know what these numbers are and track them, they can make better decisions to improve their health. While it would be nearly impossible to make an estimate, can you imagine how much we could reduce healthcare costs if everyone knew all these numbers for themselves and actually worked to keep them at safe levels? I can tell you my numbers for every one of these things, and I would be willing to bet money that I am in better shape and healthier than most people half my age.
All I can do is laugh my ass off at those of you who support the right of insurance companies to reject people for insurance due to a pre-existing condition, but you're going to cry foul when they require you to have a few basic tests, so they can charge you a penalty if you aren't taking good care of yourself.
So I suppose that insurance companies are to be eleemosynary?
I laugh my ass off at how STUPID people like you are of how insurance works.
You have NO problem paying higher car insurance premiums because you have had 3 drunk driving accidents, right?
All your fault! Right.
You have high blood pressure because you sit on your dropped off fat ass all the time and smoke!
Yet you want the insurance companies to pay all the claims you'll submit because you smoke and don't exercise.
All the while, you are a willing slob to the millionaire lawyers that sue health care providers at a drop of the hat.
90% of physicians agree that $850 billion a year in health claims is due strictly to fear of lawsuits!
Don't idiots like you think it is about time you helped the physicians by supporting a 10% tax on lawyers that is tied to a decline in the $850 billion defensive medicine costs?
With that 10% it pays the premiums for those 4 million that truly want and need health insurance.
As a result of not having to absorb uninsured hospitals can stop billing insurance companies/Medicare 6,000% more then the cost of services.
For example in 2009 the University Community Hospital in Tampa sent Medicare 2,110 claims for
CAT scan no contrast.
Each claim averaged:
$2,635 which is what the hospital billed Medicare...
The hospital's ACTUAL COSTS to perform the CAT SCAN was
$43 a mark up
6,127.91%
All because Medicare is OK with paying 6,000% markup due to EMTALA.
Now you fat asshole... I've used some big words here! For once get fat butt to work. Due some research on your own and you will see:
$850 billion a year! Simply because they don't want to be sued!
After all the experts i.e. doctors all contend they spend 34% of the national $2.5 trillion in duplicate tests,specialists. ALL out of fear of lawsuits!
That's $850 billion!
Findings from this survey include the following:
- Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine in US at $650 to $850 billion per year. This is 26 to 34% of all US healthcare costs.
- Up to 92% of US physicians practice defensive medicine.
- 76% of physicians report that defensive medicine decreases patient access to healthcare.
- 53% of physicians report delaying new techniques, procedures, and treatments due to fear of lawsuits.
- Patients most affected by defensive medicine include those visiting emergency rooms and those requiring surgery.
- Women are most affected by defensive medicine.
- Emergency medicine, primary care, and OB/GYN physicians are most likely to practice defensive medicine.
- 79 to 83% of surgeons and OB/GYNs have been named in lawsuits.
Source:
Health News Observer ? Physicians Estimate The Cost Of Defensive Medicine In Us At 650 To 850 Bill Articles
But I doubt you will do any research because as idiot assholes like you your mind is made up based on 30 second sound bites as that is all your ADD allows!
