with people getting care without insurance...so people are already getting
care if it is needed. Many of our facilities in cities close to the border
have been shutting down because they are required to treat ALL who enter the
emergency room whether they are insured or not. Think: anchor baby.
Honorable people with no insurance may not be getting care until it is
absolutely necessary because they have thoughts that they have to pay for
it.
The abuse of the system is not a new concept. People who tend to do that
have no second thoughts about going in and getting treated...because they
don't feel the sense of responsability to pay for it. The clinic or
hospital loses.
It is insurance premiums that keep medical care expensive...I have known
medical professionals who pay six figures annually for their malpractice
insurance. With the feds in charge of healthcare the concern in addition to
abuse becomes accountability. Frivolous law suits are rampant and payouts
are often rediculous. Our system has been built on
"accountability"...despite recent lack of accountability in Wall Street...it
is a basic cornerstone of what makes the USA great. (When was the last time
you were thrown in jail for no reason whatsoever or were driven around in a
cop car until you gave them enough bribe money to get out.)
This medical accountability keeps the malpractice insurance up...and medical
expense up...and higher medical expense keeps insurance premiums higher for
all. Where is the accountability? Who will cut first? If the ability to
sue over something as rediculous as the "pain and suffering" from a stubbed
toe on a hospital gurney is still out there...the cycle continues. There is
NO TALK of health care reform that I have seen...just insurance. More
insurance=more money. The winners are not US...when they pass the expense
to "big, bad insurance and pharmaceutical companies" where do you think that
ends up? Coming from the poor schmucks like me out here in the real world.
I am not sure how this will "decrease the deficit by $30 billion over 10
years...is that because of the federal insurance premiums that will be
collected? Where is the health "CARE" reform?
I have gone through three cycles of chemotherapy over the last 11 years. I
went through the first one without ANY insurance...and worked out payments
to the hospital that I paid (like an insurance premium) for 10 years until
it was paid off.
My last treatment cost $140,000 dollars. Yes, I have insurance now...but
the drugs ALONE were over $130,000 of that. That is quite a bit for
research and development I would agree, but where could the money be put
toward "reform" that matters?
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Chad Schauers
Have you metChad?
MetLife Home Loans
406.522.0922
406.522.0924 (fax)
1924 W. Stevens, Ste. 202
Bozeman, MT 59718
Cell: 406 799 8613
ccschauers@metlifehomeloans.com
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Chad Schauers
Have you metChad?
MetLife Home Loans
406.522.0922
406.522.0924 (fax)
1924 W. Stevens, Ste. 202
Bozeman, MT 59718
Cell: 406 799 8613
ccschauers@metlifehomeloans.com
