Money-Driven Medicine - Now Treating Medicine 4

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[viviananderson]

In fact, it is commonly called "the health care industry"...

[uhclem]

@mediadogfilms1 Those who choose to work hard (or who inherent money) get better housing, food, cars, jewelry, electronics, clothes, etc. than do those who don't. This is freedom. I pay for my own healthcare...that is, the healthcare I CHOOSE to receive. Here's a clue: Everyone dies. Don't be scared; it'll only hurt for a little while. Man up.

[mediadogfilms1]

Uchlem, If you get cancer, who's going to pay for the 1 million dollar healthcare tab? you? If you get hit by a bus, whose going to pay for that? You? What, are you independently wealthy? Do you own your own hospital? That's not cheaper for you. And the tab will get picked up by me, the American tax payer.

[mediadogfilms1]

You asked- I'm a Canadian living in the US for decades. The wait lines in Canada are largely a myth when compared to the wait lines here in the US. In the US I had to wait 3 months for Critical spine surgery. My mother, in Canada waits only for non-critical care, like a sigmoidoscopy. (6 weeks). She gets critical care immediately and there are no "emergency lines" as there are here in the US. More people die in the US for lack of care than any other industrialized nation. That's a fact

[uhclem]

There are no 50 million without the possibility of being covered. IF there are 50M, which I doubt, they, like me, CHOOSE to not have insurance and pay as they go, like I do (a 52 year old man with chronic health problems).

It's cheaper for me to not have insurance and I prefer not to. Osama-Obama will prevent my choice.

[BufordStone]

So the 50 million without coverage can just keep being screwed? Great solution!

[uhclem]

How can you say "The government has yet to have a chance to even try out Single Payer" and in the same breath accuse me of dismissing the free market??

I WANT the free market to decide! But if Osama-Obama FORCES "single-payer" on us, he's taken the free market option away from us...at gun point if necessary.

Ask a Canadian, pre-just this year what he did if the waiting line was too long for his needed operation. If he had the money, he went to Buffalo, NY and had it done. If he didn't, he died

[uhclem]

Aboot 10 years ago (even picked up on the lingo), and the reason you pay for it anyways [sic] is that you have "single-payer" socialism. In the US we don't have to pick up the tab for loses incurred by private companies...yet. If you collectivists get your way, the people will be taxed to pay for private companies screw-ups, kinda like we did with GM.

[no1choice]

Hey uhclem,

Federal Government Bureaucracy - If you voted this past election, then you are just as part of the problem for getting them in there.

"More bureaucracy and more government cannot fix this problem."

So when was the last time you visited Canada?

Do you know what happens when the un-insured use the ER as a checkup, we pay for that anyways?

The government has yet to have a chance to even try out Single Payer, yet you dismiss letting the free market decide for itself.

[uhclem]

"Supply side" payments cause a demand in more services. When someone else is paying the bill, we tend to take as much as we can. When we're paying the bill we tend to take as much as we need.

[uhclem]

This can't be the last in the series. There is no conclusion, no "moral of the story."

The conclusion I expected was "capitalism is bad, therefore the opposite is good."

The problem with healthcare in America is that the customer, that is, the entity paying the bills is no longer the patient, but is instead a faceless bureaucracy be they government or private health insurance entities.

More bureaucracy and more government cannot fix this problem.