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katy wrote:
Contained within those numbers are the thousands upon thousands who
receive Medicaid and who also are never refused treatment at hospitals
emergency rooms...yes...there is a problem with health care in this

While most, but not all, are given treatment, there are fewer and
fewer hospitals equiped to deal with emergency care... care that
wouldn't have be emergencies if they had access to preventative
treatment. ER is very, very expensive, and if the person can't pay, we
pay. Since people don't have ins, they tend to wait until the
situation is dire, which complicates treatment and recovery.

country...and it is not limited to just the poor...my solution? We
should get rid of health care insurance entirely and go back to paying
doctors out odf pocket...that way the industry would correct

How do you expect people who are maybe getting minimum wage or have
3/4 kids to pay out of pocket? It might "correct" itself, but between
now and then, many people would die as a result.

itslef..there would always be charities, as before health insurance, to
pick up for those that cna't pay...I know the amounts that are spent on
our BCBS policy...we pay half out of pocket plus deductibles etc. There
is no way in current history that we spend that amount on "real" actual
health care...instead of paying out 9-12 K/annumto an insurance company
it couldgo into a specialized medical account..one NOT set up by
insurance companies like is currently ptacticed...the price of health
care would level out to where it is reasonable, litigation would stop
driving the prices higher and higher, doctors would no longer have to
order unnecessary tests for fear of litigation...arbitration would take
on a real and active role rather than using the jury system...

We need some sort of single-payer option for people... not mandatory,
but available.

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