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

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3585)	1/3/2008 12:48:22 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 42652

That's what I heard when I posted to Lane3 a couple of days ago when we had a discussion about how insurance policies work and that you 'just have to read the forms'. The docs I talked with were LOL about how 'easy' it is to deal with these firms. Regards, John

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3585)	1/3/2008 1:41:42 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 42652

What may come as a great shock to you and the thread is the number of medical personnel, including otherwise astute physicians, who do clamor for socialized medicine. It was actually a golf buddy doctor that first convinced me that single payer was the only effective solution.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3585)	1/3/2008 1:48:56 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

" They are more than fed up with the the vagaries and contrariness of private health insurance companies--vagaries and contrariness they do not have to contend with when treating patients who are endowed with government supplied health insurance." I suspect that the market forces are abridged in the government paid private insurance. The companies agree to be easier to deal with and charge more because government administrators are more responsive to coworkers and less concerned about negotiating the best price. If the private market is eliminated and government bureaucracy is the only game in town you can expect more irrationality from the government bureaucrats. They cannot be blamed for assessing the current reality and preferring the less painful version of practicing. All things change.