Mike
Funny how unfettered free market capitalism works to stifle the entrepreneurial spirit when it's applied to health care insurers. That's proof enough that health care insurance should be under one roof that's either private(and maybe non-profit, like the Swiss) or run by the government.
I know, I know, the government can't run anything...at least anything very complex. But how complex is insurance? It's as bureaucratic as it gets, and bureaucracy one thing the government already does as well as anything else.
PBS's Frontline did a good report called Sick Around the World in the last year or so. They took a peek at the health cares systems of Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.K. to see how they work or don't work well as compared to the one here.
pbs.org
Check out the $91 MRIs in Japan. Same thing here would cost thousands.
Bottom line for me in all this is that while I don't understand most of the issues too well, the largest issue stands out so much that the others don't matter - and that simply is that where there's pain, suffering and the possibility of death, those things can't be addressed fairly in a for-profit manner.
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