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- tommyo0
One solution to healthcare... ?
Just a thought but as TBO points out, big procedures are rare and expensive. Why doesn't our insurance system JUST cover the big unforeseen stuff? Why is it also covering preventative?
If it were more like car insurance maybe that's a solution? It would allow people to see their doctors directly. Doctors could decide treatments 1 on 1 with their patients, without insurance company influence. It would allow the doctor more leverage in working with patients who have less income. And insurance companies would be regulated to the big 'what if' shit.
Just a thought. Seems like it covers a lot of the issues.
- lower middle class can't afford it.DrBombay
- And in reality this is already an option, insurance isn't mandatory, you can get just catastrophic insurance.DrBombay
- I have it through my employer.DrBombay
- But... isn't your point that it's the insurance companies who have driven up prices? This would cut them out.tommyo
- I don't understand how this is getting rid of insurance companies.DrBombay
- Depends. That works for say people in their 20's 30's. Children and older people would need different coverage ranges I think.TheBlueOne
- You have it exactly backwards. More preventative care will save money.ukit
- But this would give more access to preventative care without HAVING to have insurance. Win wintommyo
- Not sure how it gives more access.DrBombay
- CUTTING OUT INSURANCE GIVES MORE ACCESS.tommyo
- I don't understand how, explain how. I'm not trying to be a prick Tommy, I just don't get it.DrBombay
- Okay just answer this one question.. what is the reason some people don't have access to medical care?tommyo
- and I'm sorry for screaming, I thought you were trying to be a prick.tommyo
- MoneyDrBombay
- Okay so if the cost for health care is doctor + insurance and we cut insurance out of the picture for the small things liketommyo
- colds and flus and allergies and all the other non life threatening issues, then wouldn't it make sense that it would allow peopletommyo
- who can't afford the preventative stuff access to health care? The big stuff you'd need coverage for, but it would cost less now.tommyo
- I think the problem is much worse than people getting theraflu and robitussin.DrBombay
- Oh I know that. But if say 95% of the stuff you see doctors for is non-life threatening... makes sense.tommyo
- I'm listening. :)DrBombay
- This works out awesome when you try to think about things instead of saying you hate government.DrBombay
- Does this mean we're friends again?tommyo
- we'll see ;)DrBombay