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What did we do before "glorious" socialism -and- "health insurance"?
There were private hospitals and clinics, many operated by charitable organizations.
Not only did they offer "free" care (charity wards), but they had paying customers, too.
And the cost was FAR LESS, due to the lack of "takers" lined up to skim from the patient and the physician.
COST INCREASE : 40,725% increase ($1,629/$4)
($1,629/$4 = 407.25 X 100 = 40725%)
(Somebody has to pay for all the bureaucracy, paper work, clerks, adjusters, investigators, supervisors, guys in clown suits, etc, etc.)
This is the result of government meddling in medicine for over 120 years.
Poster, you do know that obstetrics has come along way since 1930 right?
(I have personal experience with a very competently done, medically necessary, C section- and it cost me $0 through my employer provided health insurance)...
also note that the for profit hospital chains are mainly in southern, non unionized labor markets, and the main cost (fairly I might add) in healthcare is the workers - while the medicare premiums paid to the hospitals remain the same (hence the predominance of for profit hospitals in cheap labor markets)-
I would say CAPITALISM is alive and well in our health insurance industry today-- and to the detriment of the PEOPLE involved. (patients and workers).
What did we do before "glorious" socialism -and- "health insurance"?
There were private hospitals and clinics, many operated by charitable organizations.
Not only did they offer "free" care (charity wards), but they had paying customers, too.
And the cost was FAR LESS, due to the lack of "takers" lined up to skim from the patient and the physician.
COST INCREASE : 40,725% increase ($1,629/$4)
($1,629/$4 = 407.25 X 100 = 40725%)
(Somebody has to pay for all the bureaucracy, paper work, clerks, adjusters, investigators, supervisors, guys in clown suits, etc, etc.)
This is the result of government meddling in medicine for over 120 years.
I am obviously talking about acute medical/surgical emergencies, where the patient is to be taken to the CLOSEST ER.
So your answer won't hold water in our real world.
And you didn't answer my question about me desiring to buy HC insurance for me and my family.
And the price of a 1935 Chevy Standard, brand new, was $465 Not to mention in terms of what could be done for you in a hospital at that time you were probably just as well off to stay home unless you were recovering from surgery.
AFTER THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
• State/local government hospitals — $1,625
• Non-profit hospitals — $2,025
• For-profit hospitals — $1,629
COST INCREASE : 40,725% increase ($1,629/$4)
($1,629/$4 = 407.25 X 100 = 40725%) (Somebody has to pay for all the bureaucracy, paper work, clerks, adjusters, investigators, supervisors, guys in clown suits, etc, etc.)
This is the result of government meddling in medicine for over 120 years.
No, that is a result of the absolute idiocy of thinking that a 'fee for service' model in healthcare will ever serve anyone well other than hospitals and insurance companies- that's quite the opposite of socialism
I went to the Doctor today and asked him what he thought of "Trumpcare" he said; along with the application for your HSA they should send you two envelopes, one containing two aspirin in case you get sick, and the other with hemlock in case the aspirin doesn't work.
New reports Friday afternoon specify that the House has made 2 tweaks to TrumpCare.
1) tax credits will increase for older people.
2) states will be allowed to add work requirements for able bodied adults on Medicaid
Not sure of the finer details for these changes.
That looks like good tweaks. . It's like welfare reform under Bill Clinton.
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