RE: Our Great Helath Care System
August 9, 2014 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2014 at 2:43 pm by Isun.)
Problem with your proposition is that the market system of healthcare in the US has been a total failure.
1) It has led to the highest cost healthcare system in the world
2) higher death rate for patients
3) highest bankruptcy rate due to health care costs
4) one of the lowest among industrialized nations in longevity.
5) One of the lowest quality healthcare systems among industrialized nations.
So a for profit health care system clearly doesn't work. Worse, because of profit being the motivation it leads to insurance company's refusing to reimbursed covered expenses. They figure that most of those that they don't reimburse won't argue, and the few that will, doesn't cost as much as the profit earned by refusing to cover those that don't challenge the insurance company.
They will refuse to provide healthcare to anyone that has a pre existing health care issue.
This leads to millions without healthcare. Those millions raise our cost. The hospitals potentially go bankrupt because of too many that can't pay their health care costs. (Look at Georgia who didn't expand medicaid and the results is that rural hospitals are becoming rare to non existent). All of which leads to poor healthcare around the country which leads to thousands (estimated at 18,000) dying every year because of lack of healthcare.
I have no problems with a governmental healthcare system like medicare for everyone. If private insurance wants to do business, they can cater to those that can afford their price.
But having a market driven healthcare system is a failure and it is time to work with a different system that ensures a healthy country for everyone (depending on factors of health withstanding).
1) It has led to the highest cost healthcare system in the world
2) higher death rate for patients
3) highest bankruptcy rate due to health care costs
4) one of the lowest among industrialized nations in longevity.
5) One of the lowest quality healthcare systems among industrialized nations.
So a for profit health care system clearly doesn't work. Worse, because of profit being the motivation it leads to insurance company's refusing to reimbursed covered expenses. They figure that most of those that they don't reimburse won't argue, and the few that will, doesn't cost as much as the profit earned by refusing to cover those that don't challenge the insurance company.
They will refuse to provide healthcare to anyone that has a pre existing health care issue.
This leads to millions without healthcare. Those millions raise our cost. The hospitals potentially go bankrupt because of too many that can't pay their health care costs. (Look at Georgia who didn't expand medicaid and the results is that rural hospitals are becoming rare to non existent). All of which leads to poor healthcare around the country which leads to thousands (estimated at 18,000) dying every year because of lack of healthcare.
I have no problems with a governmental healthcare system like medicare for everyone. If private insurance wants to do business, they can cater to those that can afford their price.
But having a market driven healthcare system is a failure and it is time to work with a different system that ensures a healthy country for everyone (depending on factors of health withstanding).
