Cost Cutting Move?

[herbs814]

absolutely! higher co-pays and higher deductibles (with lower premiums). stop buying expensive plans that collectivize the costs of office visits and smaller expenses that should be handled out-of-pocket. we are OVER-insured. we need LESS insurance (limited to higher expenses) and more personal responsibility.

[dundura123]

than you do as an individual....but instead of the gov't getting into health care...we need Walmart to be the insurer of last resort...at least you know what you will be getting...it will be cheap...and let them bring in foreign doctors...

[dundura123]

ok..let me get this straight...you don't want doctors to have a disincentive to perform certain treatments which could be vital (which I understand)..but you also don't mind raising co-pays on patients (which will of course disproportionately impact the poor)...isn't that also a "disincentive for people to seek treatments which could be vital? and it is not "fee for service" she got the term backwards...which could explain why she doesn't understand that your company has more purchasing power

[rentatrip1]

FOX NEWS -please do more to report on what Americans can do for themselves to be healthy- we live in the finest nation on earth - it is possible for all of us to manage our own health issues - without the government BS

[dundura123]

it not really about American's being disproportionately less healthy than other people..the issue is that healthy American's pay more for insurance than healthy people in all the industrialized nations...and sick American's pay more for insurance than sick people in all the industrialized nations...we pay more for preventative care and child care...we pay more for everything...because no player operating in the system has the incentive to cut cost...not the consumer..not the Dr. not the hospital

[dundura123]

not big pharma...and not the insurance companies (for the most part)...its a classic text book case of "the Tragedy of the Commons"