reply to post by whaaa
Ex-Blue Cross spokesman says health insurance ‘worst product in American history’
For what it's worth, my wife works in the health insurance industry so... I understand first hand that the industry itself is a leech that both feeds
from and blocks access between the healthcare provider and the patient.
That is the truth here, in the US... you cannot access decent, personal healthcare without an insurance card.
Prior to this situation, there was nothing between the provider and the consumer and costs were affordable. My mother (age 86) tells me that my birth
cost her (circa mid-1950s) all of $26 a day.
The problem is not lawsuits or the actual cost of doing 'health' business. It is that we are supporting the 3rd party insurance industry that has
placed itself squarely between the market and the consumer. This industry employs millions and so... once you factor that into the fiscal equation, of
course it all costs more!
Beyond that, the Pharms see the healthcare insurance thing as a pond and they fish that pond just as do doctors, hospitals, etc.
It wouldn't be easy but... if we really wanted to set healthcare right, we would merely need to remove insurance, period, and allow time for the
market to balance itself so that the consumer could afford the service.
Problem solved.
But that period of transition would be painful. Too painful, in fact, to be workable.
We made this mess by allowing the health insurance industry to usurp the system and now... it is almost beyond repair.
