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Re: OT: Universal health care Insurance?


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Posted by Vern-MI on February 25, 2008 at 05:14:42 from (207.69.137.11):

In Reply to: OT: Universal health care Insurance? posted by Kelly C on February 25, 2008 at 00:06:20:

Health care costs are high in part because of health insurance. Since insurance paid for most of the bill the recipients didn't woder or care about how much the bill was. This gave the providers an opportunity to adjust the bill as high as they wanted. They figured they might as well be Robin Hood and use the health care recievables to pay for the care of those that didn't have health care insurance. They must give health care to those who can't pay.

Many health care providers are owned and run by medical doctors so there is little if any importance placed on cost control because that would be counterproductive to the business plan.

Also since nobody was looking the people who sell health care equipment found that they could sell hospitals and clinics beds, carts, monitoring equipment tubing, needles, laboratory equipmnet etc., and charge whatever they felt and it would be paid. The automotive research labs bought oscillographs for $10,000 and those very same oscillographs were sold to the medical profession for over $100,000. Nobody is going to challenge the purchase of equipment needed to have a fully functioning hospital.

Do I expect any changes to the system under government control? Absolutely not, in fact I would expect it to get worse if anything.

Look at the major automotive city in Michigan and you will see out of control government spending for "in house" squables, sexual favors, hiring of relatives that never do a days work, and personal spending of taxpayers money for vacation junkets to Hawaii. They now want the records to be kept secret so that they can continue their lavish and dirty games at taxpayers expense. They can do it because nobody is guarding the till and because many of the players have their own dirty little secrets that they don't want uncovered.

Government control of health care will be a real expensive joke. For those of you that think the rich will be socked for the bills of the poor you need to get a grip on reality. The rich will figure out how to keep their money and the masses will shoulder the burden of a bloated National Health Care System. Politicians don't want a flat tax because they would have to pay exorbitant taxes and not be able to work the tax loopholes as they now do.

I'm a retiree who pays for my own health care plan and I do a lot of shopping to make sure that I get the best deal. Also I challenge the billing of the hospital and doctor services so as not to get overcharged. Many health care providers have grown quite accustomed to double billing and over billing and have gotten away with it for to long and need to be challenged on their charges.


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