Why are health care providers getting a free ride in the health care debates? Aren’t they the ones that charge?
Posted by Dolores
Invisible asked:
So much in the first place?
So much in the first place?
Why has Obama chosen the health insurance companies to demonize? He really doesn’t talk about why health care its self is so expensive.
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March 17th, 2010 at 10:22 am
health care
The reason anyone needs health insurance in the first place is health care providers charge too much. If that were not the case you would not need health insurance. If it were not expensive to fix a wrecked car you wouldn’t need auto insurance. Insurance is a transfer of risk from one entity to another. If you don’t want to take the risk of having to pay your own medical bills you buy insurance. If it were not too expensive to pay your medical bill nobody would buy health insurance. In the first place the high charge is from health care providers.
March 20th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
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Depends, do you mean the health care corporations who overcharge with their layers of bureaucracy, or the actual doctors and nurses, who get paid less than they should based on what is being charged?
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Kansieo.com
Health care providers are not getting a free ride. There are proposals in the bills that directly affect health care providers.
Various physicians and physicians’ groups, for instance, have several different views on how health care reform will affect them and what should be done. Reading their varying proposals for health care reform provides insight into the existing problems.
March 26th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
health care
The most obvious cuts proposed to providers are to those who take care of Medicare patients. There doesn’t seem to be much else in the proposed bill which would bring down costs.
There are other powerful vested interests besides the insurance company. For example, the big pharmaceutical companies were able to introduce Medicare Part D a few years ago. That was great for them so the could sell more drugs, but it now takes up a sizable part of the Medicare budget. So should we wonder why payments to nursing homes were cut? The patients there are too sick to vote, and the seniors getting their drugs subsidized don’t care that it comes at the cost of other more vulnerable seniors.
Don’t expect drug companies to charge less or doctors to work for less, or even for them to stop pushing all those expensive screening testis conningning so many to run into their offices cholesteroleral and blood pressure checks.
March 28th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
health care
it is because liberals aren’t letting them debate.