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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (4051)1/19/2008 3:32:34 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
is actually making a real productive industry much less efficient

That's such a good point, John. I don't know why there's such a knee-jerk protective impulse by the right to protect the health insurance industry in the name of capitalism.

Doctor's hate the daily battle they have to go through with the insurers. There are so many different insurers and each one has different protocols and claim forms. Filing complex claim forms, defending their diagnoses and recommended treatments, and then re-filing....all of this drives docs crazy. Supposedly it adds about 20% to the overhead of a typical doctor's group.

And many times, docs can't even do what they want for a patient because of the insurer. It's a crazy, self-defeating system. No wonder we're the only economy that has it.
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