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To: neolib who wrote (243964)	2/4/2014 11:17:54 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 541310

I agree with you that it doesn't in itself do anything to address the system wide issue of increasing costs. It addresses a different problem, that of the uncertainty that insurance companies faced concerning the unknown risk that they were taking on by being forced to insure everyone whatever their medical history. On the "US Health Care" thread (here: Subject 55439 ), I said that insurance companies had done a terrible job of containing costs in the medical sector, that in fact it was in their corporate interest to accept and even encourage higher costs (it allows them to charge higher premiums, and only a few people actually get into the medical system in an expensive way relative to the number of people who pay premiums), plus they have rooms full of people who look for ways of denying large claims when they are made instead of rooms full of people who are looking at what hospitals charge and why they charge it, and the response I got was--"Why is cost containment their responsibility?" And denial that insurance companies have rooms of people looking for ways to deny claims. I don't post on that thread any more. Waste of time.

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