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Originally Posted by jojajn
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No, it's time to go to free market and boot those parasitic health insurance companies away from the trough.
The prices will plummet when you get the health insurance industries out of it. The price will continue to plummet if you allow for free markets to work. You need Amoxycillin? Okay. If you go to CVS, they have it for $25 for your prescription. But if you go to WalGreens, you can get it for $20. Costco will have it for even less, $16.
Doctors will have better prices for you.
You slipped and broke your ankle like a dumbass? If you go to this doctor, it's going to cost you $200 for the x-rays, $20 for the Vicodin, and $30 for the splint, and another $15 for the wrap, and then of course you will have to pay $150 for the crutches.
OR
Go to this doctor who charges $100 for x-rays, $5 for Vicodin, $10 for the splint, $10 for the wrap, and then of course $75 for the cructches.
OR
Go to this doctor who will fix you up for a lump sum of $100.
Oh you really screwed it up? You need surgery?
Well, this doc wants $8000.
That doc will do it for $5000.
That doc will do it for $1500.
Your job as the consumer is the same as it has always been, insurance or no insurance: Find the best doctor for you using all criteria that you want met, including how much they charge.
Free market.
Why can we not give this a try? You've already discovered the first battle: Insurance companies are screwing us over!
Here's the second battle: Realizing just how much government run healthcare sucks. ASK A VET.
Third battle: Understanding that free market, just as you find in elective surgeries, IS the way to go...and take the leap. Support it. Ask for it. Demand it. Demand that the government get out of our healthcare. They can't even fix a fricken toilet without costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars....let them do their job: National Security. Keep them out of our healthcare!