On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:10 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:41 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: > >> It may seem counterintuitive, but the reason you have home owner's >> insurance is to benefit the mortgage carriers, not you; your car insurance >> is to keep others' insurance from going up too high and for the public >> agencies that cover the ininsured [unless you live in a state where this >> doesn't exist]--that's why it's required. Requiring you to have health >> insurance keeps the hospitals from charging insured patients higher fees to >> cover uninsured patients, and keeps your taxes from covering uninsured >> patients in expensive emergency rooms. >> > > This post is a keeper. Thank you. > > Forward it to your Congress creatures. > > It doesn't help that hospitals try to charge the uninsured 30x what the insurance companies pay. If they can eliminate half the people from your doctors front office that would lead to savings right there.
My Doctor seems to have four at the front desk calling insurance companies plus a few in the back processing forms on top of the three or four nurses who do histories and vitals. There is a bunch of fat there that could go if the paper work load were lighter. Did you hear the Fresh Aire on Tuesday about the young cancer survivors and their experience with insurance and Cobra? One woman found it cheaper to fly back to Europe for treatments in her native Czech Republic than to use her American insurance coverage. We may have some of the best high tech medicine in the world but the payment system is moribund. A reasonable scheme to make coverage more universal is needed. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
