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- mathinc0
Ukit,
So you think it's a good thing to give the special interests what they want now, providing them with more money and more access.. and then you think that government will right that wrong down the road?
When?
Cause last I heard we're on track to more than double todays costs in another 10 years. Fix the costs and the access fixes itself.
- I seriously doubt lowering costs alone will fix access...ukit
- Why would an insurance co not do anything in their power to drop you when dropping you means higher profits?ukit
- I think you might have a skewed vision of insurance companies. Have you per chance listened to the Thismathinc
- American Life double feature on the healthcare industry?mathinc
- They've realized that they can't continue the way it is now either.mathinc
- "can't continue the way it is now" being the key point...of the options you listed above I didn't see anything that was either achievable or would really lower costsukit
- Check out 'More is Less' and 'Someone Else's Money'.. NPR's This American Life.mathinc
- achievable or would really lower costsukit
- haha really? You don't think 100,000 deaths each year from infections obtained inside hospitals costs lots of money?mathinc
- In pure healthcare savings it would reduce costs.. not to mention litigation and rises in insurance for the docs.mathinc
- Sure, but it costs money too. And no way are you getting that down to 0%.ukit
- Preventing diseases from spreading within a hospital has got to be incredibly tough, don't you think?ukit
- Of course not.. I didn't say reduce costs to zero, that's not reality. But cutting costs in half or making them even 70% ofmathinc
- what people are paying now would open up access to a hell of a lot of people.mathinc