> Erika wrote: > anymore. I'd have to ask him. But that's how UPS takes care of their > employees. I'm not sure that's the health system in as much as it's the > middle man paving the golden way. >
This is a great point. Of course there's 2 concerns: (1.) What if UPS goes out of business? What coverage will your Daddy have then? (2.) With that UPS model, what is the driver that's increasing costs? Consider the constituents: patient, provider, administrator, UPS. If costs are rising to UPS, from which of those constituents is the increase coming? And if wanted to lower costs where is the low hanging fruit? It's been suggested on this list that the low hanging fruit is with the administrator. Not likely. The cost increases are due to the amount of care provided to the patient due to longer lifespans, more products, unnecessary care, and poor lifestyle choices (smoking, poor eating habits, no exercise, not taking meds, et al) So the cost increase are on the patient/provider side not the administrator/UPS side. The current concept of a "public option" would create a new administrator/UPS side. That makes no sense to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
