On Feb 7, 2008 12:18 PM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should health care be handled in your view?
I don't really know. That is such an enormous question. What I DO know is that: 1) Health insurance is a scam 2) The government never makes things better 3) Competition is usually the best way to make things affordable Universal health care encapsulates the first two, and eliminates the last one....yikes. > > Do you currently have health benefits where you work? Or does your wife? Yes. Every paycheck, a chunk of my money is paid out to health insurance. That money goes into a big old pot of money that is salivated over by the insurance companies and the health care providers. They look at this big old pot of money, and decide how much of it they can get, and how they are going to split it up. The medical provider then charges 10X what he might otherwise charge, and the health insurance covers about 60% of that. Then they send me the paper work. Here's the result: 1) Medical provider charged 10x what he would otherwise charged, and made 6x what he would have otherwise made 2) Insurance company paid out the agreed upon amount to the doctor, which ensured that they would clear a hefty profit (whatever margin they decided they could gain from the big ole pot of money) 3) I am sent a bill with a RIDICULOUS price quoted by my doctor. Then I see that my insurance company paid 60% of it...and that silly doctor accepted it!!!! Wow!!! I can't believe I saved that much money!!! Hooray insurance!!! Rich doctor, rich insurance company, oblivious customer....bent over backwards and butt raped....and none the wiser. -- It was dark all around There was frost on the ground When the Tigers broke free ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253718 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
