One of the biggest reasons the cost of health care in this nation has skyrocketed, and made the United States by far the most expensive industrialized nation in which to get health care, is corporate greed. Unlike every other country, which have outlawed the very concept of a for-profit primary care system, the American health care industry has been based on a fatally flawed model from the start - they are an industry which can only make a profit by denying its customers the very thing that they pay the industry for. By denying coverage, the industry profits.
The Health Care Reform Law does not solve the problem. But it does force the industry to change their m.o. and actually spend most of their money on the service they are supposed to provide, and that is a very, very good thing. This year alone the American public will receive more than a billion dollars in rebates because of this provision.
The real game-changer in "Obamacare". Good thing or bad thing?
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ProudProgressive 2012/07/04 13:54:37
Respond or don't.
I prefer freedom to slavery even if the chains of slavery are covered in velvet and sold as a good - Obamacare is telling us all that poison is good for us and pushed by those who prefer to control the population at its most basic level. Nothing more and nothing less
I sat on a jury, the wife was suing her husbands company - he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer and lost his job after some period of time and with it his insurance. She maintained it was the companies fault and the insurance companies because he succumbed to the cancer. We had the medical record in the jury room and there it was - he refused chemo and surgery -- chemo made him sick and cutting off his testis was out of the question, the hospital/clinic had him submit his rejection in writing. She lost the case - after the trial and on TV, she declared that the insurance company and the company were a perfect example of the broken health care system and how it abuses people.
Are there some few abuses, of course - there are small firms out there that should not exist. Is the insurance industry as a whole bad - hell no
Now we are all a commodity, the committees and boards ( roughly 185 at last count generated by this bill) will decide ones usefulness (tax paying ability) and determine health care. Now that is real evil
That's nonsense. People buy insurance because they expect to be covered when they need it. And insurance companies look for any way to deny them that coverage.
I think the fact that pretty much everyone knows someone who has been either denied coverage or given the runaround says everything I need to know. A vast majority of Americans feel that the system needs reformation.
As for the rest, you're working under the mistaken assumption that there won't be a for-profit health care industry for those who want it. There will. This is about insurance companies/policies, not actual health care providers.
Later after a year of so of paying premiums, the man is in a tragic accident, broken neck. He is in the ICU, needs surgery to stabilize and fix what they can, but have to wait a few days for the rest of him to stabilize. Wife comes to see hubby at hospital only to find him outside in a wheel chair, waiting for her to arrive. He was parked out there, literally, by the hospital staff. His insurance had decided to deny any further care, surgery, anything for him. So, they dumped him out on the sidewalk. Wife had to try and get him into her truck on her own and get him home. Had to get him into the house on her own. No help, no meds, no nothing... just a husband, with a broken neck and partial paralysis. She had to do all his care herself, fly by the seat of her pants, because insurance had flat out decided to deny care for the he...
Later after a year of so of paying premiums, the man is in a tragic accident, broken neck. He is in the ICU, needs surgery to stabilize and fix what they can, but have to wait a few days for the rest of him to stabilize. Wife comes to see hubby at hospital only to find him outside in a wheel chair, waiting for her to arrive. He was parked out there, literally, by the hospital staff. His insurance had decided to deny any further care, surgery, anything for him. So, they dumped him out on the sidewalk. Wife had to try and get him into her truck on her own and get him home. Had to get him into the house on her own. No help, no meds, no nothing... just a husband, with a broken neck and partial paralysis. She had to do all his care herself, fly by the seat of her pants, because insurance had flat out decided to deny care for the hell of it. She spent hours on the phone daily fighting w/ insurance companies, hospitals and attorneys, and her hubby just laid there on the couch because she could not even get him into the bedroom.. up stairs... not possible.
he eventually got better, never back to normal, but he did improve, no thanks to the insurance company he had faithfully paid for and paid well to.
Last I heard, they were still worried about losing their home. The hospital had come after them for the amount of time he had been in the ICU and it was more than their entire property was worth. Wife went into a deep depression, and she just plain shut out the world and I have not been able to reach her since.
BTW.. this was in AZ.