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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
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Until govt. got heavily involved over the past couple of decades there was no "system".
In the 1970's and 1980's when I went to the doctor, I paid in cash. No problems.
Then suddenly everybody had to have insurance. Started hearing about "HMO"s that were going to lower our costs. And our health costs as a nation went through the roof.
Pres. Obama didn't help matters when the first thing he did was go behind closed doors when creating Obama-Care (remember, he promised in his 2008 campaign to make it totally transparent to the American people and even televise it on C-SPAN) and cut a deal with big Pharma to keep prices over-inflated for all prescription drugs in the U.S.
(if you don't believe me, just go out of the country and buy the same exact medication and you will be SHOCKED)
So now Baby Jesus Obama has given those insurance companies the greatest gift of all times. EVERYBODY has to buy it.
I wish he would enact Obama-Porn and force everyone to buy porn. lol
The insurance companies now get richer. The pharmaceutical companies now get richer. And the actual price of going to the doctor doesn't really change at all.
Maybe your insurance costs MIGHT go down (mine have only gone up and up in anticipation of the full implementation of Obama-Care in 2014), but the actual costs of everything was NOT addressed.
We are getting screwed over BIG time.
There is no reason that we should have to pay 300 and 400% MORE than other countries do for the same exact procedures and medication.
It's a scam that has been going on for a couple of decades and is cemented in stone now with Obama-Care.