Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (214573)	1/25/2007 12:23:26 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You keep on making statements with NO supporting evidence. You get more from the for-profit system. Look at how many Docs don't take Medicare. Prove it. Docs also kill around 100K-200K people/year in the US through medical malpractice. That's also part of the for-profit system AND the AMA is a monopoly which makes the healthcare system very much anti-competitive anyway. You're not talking about PROFIT from a dog-eat-dog capitalist system, you're talking about a protected monopoly making outsized profits FROM THE MONOPOLY. If Medicare were the only payer out there, believe me, Docs would take it. Do you honestly think that for-profit insurance companies aren't out devising ways to pay Docs LESS and deny care as much as possible? Partly because standards of living are different and quality is different Mass General sends xrays overseas to get read. If you can digitize it or put it on a plane it can be done overseas. Why allow the AMA to lobby to restrict the number of foreign physicians who can practice in the US? Some of those foreign hospitals, with their staffs of RNs put many US hospitals to shame. It is because the method of payment, via insurance, does nothing to promote cost control. Except that's not true either. Insurance companies have tremendous incentives TO NOT PAY. They have tremendous incentives to DENY CARE which is POLICY at many (most or all?) insurance companies. Insurance companies cherry pick the healthy, deny care whenever humanly possible and pocket the huge returns. From what I've seen, the increase in costs stems partly from people becoming very sick from lack of basic care and becoming catastrophically sick instead of being made well in the first place. Just make sure nothing in your genetic makeup causes you to become sick regardless of how you stave it off with your healthy lifestyle. Make sure you don't get hit by a car or have a skiing accident. Why should American citizens have to worry about these things? Why should we have to deal with such predictable risks instead of spending our time and effort being productive? It's ridiculous. With guaranteed health CARE just like guaranteed national defense, sidewalks, traffic signals, national parks, public education, food inspection, clean water, etc. we can have a better life. Isn't that the real public good?