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

To: i-node who wrote (7497)	7/12/2009 11:53:51 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

This is a bullshit claim. I don't know the details on why the "industry" would claim it and not try to stop it, but the most reasonable explanation is that that the claim is a lie in the first place. You sure do defend the industry and the status quo. You realize it's not sustainable, right?

To: i-node who wrote (7497)	7/12/2009 5:19:29 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If there were $200B in fraud occurring in the private sector insurance business, these companies would be acting to stop it. And they're not. I don't know about $200B, but I recently had a dermatologist code my visit as multiple genital warts when it was a common wart on my finger and he spent just a couple of minutes with me. Both Medicare and Blue Cross paid up. I don't know how they could stop that. They could make it easy for people like me to report it, I suppose, but most people wouldn't notice most of the time.