I still blame the insurance racket. If you are selling a good or service, your main goal is to sell as many goods or services at the highest possible price that you can. One important consideration is "How much can my target customer base afford?". You can't charge a price that is so outrageous, your customers can't afford it, no matter how much they want/need it.
Last year I had a laprascopic hernia surgery. Pretty simple procedure, took about 30 minutes. 1 hour recovery time, back home good as new that day. The surgeon billed my insurance company $9,800.00. Almost 10 thousand dollars. My insurance company looks at the bill, decides how much profit they want to make on me, and agree to pay some large portion of that bill. So what has happened here? For years i've paid large sums of money to an insurance company. I finally have a medical procedure. All this really means is that now its time for some doctors to share in my insurance company's windfall....so they bill a ridiculous number. They decide how they want to divy up MY money. Everyone comes out rich, I get screwed. I'm an economic simpleton, i readily admit that....but where have I gone wrong here? Seriously, if insurance didn't exist....would my surgeon be selling his 30 minute medical procedure for $10,000 dollars??? > > Interesting. The Canadian system is the equivalent to a top of the line PPO, yet it covers everyone, and is cheaper than the US system. Got to love theory of private enterprise works better than a public system. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:136864 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
