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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Katelew who wrote (4055)1/19/2008 4:09:57 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
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.

I used to play golf with a Doc and he was the one that convinced me that the only solution was single payer. He wasn't particularly happy about it... but he was a realist. And eventually that is where we will HAVE to go.

Medical costs in this country are already way out of hand, and in the next 20 years they will dramatically increase their drain on the economy. It's going to make US industry less competitive and decrease our standard of living. Single payer is a proven solution to lowering cost... and it's imperative that we do something as soon as we can find the political will to implement change.

If somebody can find a better solution... great. But I haven't seen one evolve anywhere else so I suspect there isn't one. We need to get the special interests out of the game so that we can move forward.... maybe the '08 election will help.

Thanks for your posts... well thought out and well written, and without the edge that I sometimes get after years of discussing this issue and being labeled a socialist and worse.

Glad you showed up on this thread...
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