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. . . and if healthcare were not so expensive?I'm two months into a six month wait to see an ENT doctor.
We have three major hospitals in my city but only one has an ENT doctor, thus the wait. Maybe they aren't paid enough to attract medical students.. . . and if healthcare were not so expensive?
You might probably be able to afford to go see one tomorrow out of pocket.
. . . but government control and subsidizing of industries creates unintended distortions in the market, as well as price increases.
Look at the rental market in big cities. ..
Folks have a hard time finding housing. Why should investors build more low income housing if the government is going to cap rents?
More than likely, it has to do with the policies of the HMOs.We have three major hospitals in my city but only one has an ENT doctor, thus the wait. Maybe they aren't paid enough to attract medical students.
Yes. St. Mary's Hospitals in southern Wisconsin became divisions of SSM Health.More than likely, it has to do with the policies of the HMOs.
Tell me. . . of these three hospitals, did any of the change their name from a Catholic Hospital, i.e. "St. Mary's hospital," for instance, to something named after a big health corporation in the past twenty years?
Well? There you go.Yes. St. Mary's Hospitals in southern Wisconsin became divisions of SSM Health.
The overarching theme of the housing industry is to deprive common people of home ownership. However humble, one's home is his castle. Heck, you can even have a garden and grow some food, set up swings for the kids, run the dog, build a privacy fence. Builders, bankers, and local governments want "McMansions"or high density rental housing, not affordable crackerboxes. More profit for builders, bankers, and more tax revenue to expand the size of government.. . . and if healthcare were not so expensive?
You might probably be able to afford to go see one tomorrow out of pocket.
. . . but government control and subsidizing of industries creates unintended distortions in the market, as well as price increases.
Look at the rental market in big cities. ..
Folks have a hard time finding housing. Why should investors build more low income housing if the government is going to cap rents?
Builders, bankers, and local governments want "McMansions"
tax revenue for the problems the government refuses to solve.
We need more foxes to guard the henhouse.
Of course, but how much is the question.
We don't live in the UK.Well, not "of course". In the UK they don't need to.
I have had so many friends move to Berlin, over the last decade. It’s the place to be.I was living in Germany for a while. Now that America is ruined I may move there, if they let me.
Do you know why insurance companies are allowed to circumvent contract law in that after you're locked into on a plan with set premium payments for the next 12 months, they can at any time decide to no longer cover items that they enticed you to their plan with?You won't. Those plans can and do change every year. That stuff was unheard of years ago.
We don't live in the UK.
As far as I know the only thing they can change during a contract year is the drug formulary, must have been something written into law years ago. I am talking about Medicare Advantage. Insurance companies can deny anything they deem not medically necessary on under or over 65 and that is in the contract.Do you know why insurance companies are allowed to circumvent contract law in that after you're locked into on a plan with set premium payments for the next 12 months, they can at any time decide to no longer cover items that they enticed you to their plan with?
Under normal contract law that is a straight up breach of contract. Even worse is if they entered into the contract with the intent of breaching it.
Just wondering if you might know the answer. I've asked this question numerous times but I've yet to get an answer.
We have socialized medicine here. It's called Medicare and Medicaid.So? Do you think that because you live in the US, that the UK doesn't exist, that what the UK proves, doesn't exist? That healthcare has to be private, has to be the US way, there cannot be change because this is the only thing we know? We shouldn't learn from others? Just keep banging your head against the table until the table breaks?
We have socialized medicine here. It's called Medicare and Medicaid.
Our healthcare/health insurance system is public, private, and political.Well done for pointing out the obvious.
Do you have a point to go with your obvious?
That we have these programs reveals that our health has already crumbled.This nation would crumble without medicare and Medicaid. Irrefutable fact
Here's a video from occupy healthcare that I was watching, if you want their take on the problem of private healthcare.
Here's my view.
1) The US federal government spends about the same, or more, per capita than the UK government does for the NHS.
2) On top of this most Americans are then forced to buy themselves healthcare. This amounts to about 50% of all spending.
3) Something like 15% of the money that people pay for health insurance goes to the health insurance company. So, in the UK without health insurance companies, for the most part, they don't need to spend 7.5% on something that is completely unnecessary.
4) On top of the 15%, a lot of money is spent on unnecessary things, like over prescription of drugs, of using the more expensive drugs, of not trying to get the price of drugs down, of doctors taking a cut for proscribing certain types of drugs, of hospitals overcharging for all kinds of things.
5) The level of corruption is HUGE:
"in 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno declared it America’s‘number two crime problem’, second only to violent crime."
In the video at the top, the presenter points to the Senate and the Biden administration trying to go after corruption, and Trump... will probably not, because Trump doesn't give a fuck whether you get treated or not. Only that his buddies make their money. We'll see if he drops these investigations.
6) How much is the fraud? Well, healthcare amounts to 15% of the US GDP, and it seems like the US spend a lot more than anyone else, and a lot of people aren't getting proper coverage. In an article about this from maybe 20 years ago they estimated corruption to be about 20%-30%.
Will anything change because people have seen a need to attack this guy? he got killed, but very few people have any sympathy for him, as he's ruined countless lives.
