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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (1926)	8/31/2007 3:31:46 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re: Using my example, one loser was the provider. Other losers would be those who paid $940 and those who didn't get the sonogram. I don't see how those, as a group, could be categorized as "least able to afford to lose." Maybe I didn't make myself clear. From a consumer perspective, you are a winner because all you pay is your deductible. A poor uninsured person who comes in after you with the same problem is a loser because he pays $940 for the sonogram. The hospital can afford to charge the insurance company $69 for your sonogram because they are getting so much more from the uninsured person.