Insurance is not the problem...........PROVIDERS are the problem, but I understand where you're coming from.Originally Posted by know1
Insurance doesn't control JACK. They collect premiums and pay. The reason everything costs so much in Health Care is because 75% of all dollars paid to a provider is subsidized by the gubment. Meaning 75% of their revenues come from a person who is somehow or another getting a subsidy from the gubment. Medicare, Passport, Indigent writeoff, Medicaid, Tricare, Veterans.....whatever. AND when a provider can bill out for X and be guaranteed they will get a big chunk of that from the gubment, they CONTINUE to bill at that rate.
If the gubment stopped paying their rates, you'd in the short term have very shitty coverage, but in the long term, you'd get to a better, more free market economy.
NO ONE shops around for healthcare. They just pay what they are told to pay.
SAD.
Later,
Geo
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