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Even if it were Medicare, the patient is responsible for he 20% of the Medicare allowable. That can be significant if you need the services of specialists in the hospital setting.
Even if it were Medicare, the patient is responsible for he 20% of the Medicare allowable. That can be significant if you need the services of specialists in the hospital setting.
But since you are avoiding medical care, none of that would happen to you so you don't need to worry.
There was nothing wrong with high-risk pools and Medicaid as they existed. The sector, abetted by occultists like Pelosi, simply wanted to strip mine the middle class.
High risk pools were operated in some states and did not cover most who were unable to buy individual plan insurance due to preexisting conditions.
Insurers substantially lobbied at the state level to ensure state laws protected them.
All states had laws that enabled insurers to " look back" x months/ years to disqualify applicants. One state had no maximum.
Healthcare in the U.S. is big business. In the rest of the developed world healthcare is viewed as a human right.
Family Practitioners routinely use Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.
Onocologists routinely rely on Physican Assistants to execute treatment plans.
There may be a shortage of some specialists in some parts of the country. That's always been the case.
My sister works in a hospital. "Routinely" has taken on a new meaning.
Days can go by before patients are seen by their doctor. Nurses are taking on more and more duties.
And that has not always been the case. And they are not being sufficiently trained to take over duties once done by doctors.
She has voiced her concern over liability to the higher ups and has a paper trail as well.
This is all part of "cost cutting". And her pay didn't go up either. I don't know her exact title but she has nurses under her and has floor manager responsibility.
She is toughening it out for 5 more years (pension).
As hospital operators begin to report second period earnings — the sixth consecutive quarter of new revenue from once uninsured patients — the number and size of unpaid medical bills continues to fall thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
Universal Health Services (UHS), a large multi-state investor-owned operator of hospitals, reported uncompensated care declined in the second quarter “as it has the last six quarters now,”.
Such trends, which helped Universal Health raise its earnings forecast for the rest of the year, should help the entire hospital industry, particularly as more states opt to expand Medicaid.
“We see it quite clearly most dramatically in those states, Nevada, California, the District of Columbia that have participated in Medicaid expansion.”
I'll give it to these people, you know the ones. They don't work and get everything for free then throw it in the faces of hard working Americans that pay for all their free stuff? How long do you think it will be before all the folks working, trying to support theirs families and paying for the lazy folks are going to revolt? When it happens it's going to be ugly. It happened the last 2 elections and it's going to happen next November as well. My concern is that someday it will go far far past just voting. People are only going to put up with illegals and paying for lazy folks free chit so long.. Once that door is open it will won't go shut without a huge revolution.
Healthcare in the U.S. is big business. In the rest of the developed world healthcare is viewed as a human right.
And they're also long-since conditioned to vast, chronic unemployment because of it.
Nobody was expiring in the street gutters of the U.S. for lack of care. But now you're forced to buy unnecessarily comprehensive insurance policies whose prices are periodically increased by double digits, for fluff and nonsense and the aftermath of iatrogenic disfigurements.
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