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Originally Posted by Growler
Curious. I'd like to know as well; the concept is intriguing.
It is the responsibility of a company to provide the service paid for. It is the responsibility of the consumer to pay the company for services rendered. Simple economics.
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You'd be surprised what they don't pay for, so read all the fine print. It's also a matter of policy to deny many bills the first time even if it's covered, although after calls from you or your Doctor they will pay up, but this tactic works, 28% don't follow up, get the bill and either pay it or not. They leave many areas gray on purpose. They should make fine unreadable print on some back page against the law. Think how corrupt that is, why, because it works and screws millions up every year. Whatever is written in fine print now should be changed to large print with a large "WARNING", read this, hire an attorney to understand it...or you could die. The profit is in the fine print.
The bigger question is health a right. The government already deems we have the right to life, the bill of rights protects the right to life, one reason ER rooms don't deny life threatening conditions, criminals in jail get good health care as do terrorist.
Yes, this right has to be paid for, like we all pay for prisions, education, ect..Why, if we didn't it would cost society as a whole. We all together pay cops and firefighters to protect life. We ban together to do so.
When one is denied or can't afford health care, all studies show it cost us all more in the long run, so we all suffer as a society, hospital charge more, Insurance goe's up, medicare 60 trillion in debt.
I have no problem with all making profit, but the medical industry as a whole has become a corporate monopoly based on mass profits. On this one area of health, ask yourself this...
do you want people to act based on how they can help you the most or do you want them to act based on how much profit..? This is an affront to our right to life.
Today Doctor mistakes are the 3rd leading cause of death, 40,000 die every year from lack of care, millions do without meds, live in pain, so they can feed their kids instead. These get worse and usually cost us all more.
Many in pain just kill themselves.
All studies show one thing, no changes, in 10 years 40% of us could be without medical insurance. Recent studies show corporations are providing less and less options with insurance. All studies show the nice government care will have to be cut...I've met many a GOP member that got ill, lost his job, insurance and forced into pain and poverty changed their mind about a public option.
You have to ask yourself, public option or corporate control for mass profits....which is worse? We know both have bankrupted this country, but no CEO will get a 20 million dollar bonus at the end of the year at the expense of someone elses pain or death.
What we need is a properly regulated medical industry, I myself don't trust the government, but I trust corporations less...course they run the GOP, so would be a win win for them either way.