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Originally Posted by kane
This is so true. Some medicines are priced so high that most people couldn't afford them without insurance. It is all one big scam. Big Pharm manipulates prices to keep them high forcing people to demand prescription coverage in their insurance which then drives up the cost of the insurance.
Another problem is that there are just too many people between my dollars and my doctor. If I was going to pay a guy $20 to mow my lawn I would hire him, he would mow my lawn and I would hand him cash. There is really nobody between him and my money. If it were run like the healthcare system I would have lawn mowing insurance and pay a monthly premium of $40 then I would hire a guy to mow my lawn, I would give him a $5 co-pay and he would bill my insurance $60. Will all of these people wanting to get paid in between he and I, the price is bound to go up.
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Exactly. It's a bloated, overly complex system. Single payer is the answer.
These goddamn HMOs do nothing but handle our money, and decide what they will and won't pay for with it. They raise the premiums because they can, and since profit is their motive they do it frequently. Then people curse Obama for being a "socialist".