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From
30/11/2013 13:41:11
 
 
To
30/11/2013 11:06:35
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Health
Title:
Re: Ouch
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01588319
Message ID:
01588924
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Let me remind you that the average american pays 2 or 3 times as much for their Healthcare Insurance than for example in Canada while he buys only below average coverage and quality. Only the rich can afford themselves good Healthcare.

Really? And exactly how do you know this? When we were living in England we were paying roughly 12% of our salary for national health insurance. We were also paying 300 pounds a month for private insurance because Andy learned the hard way that, unless you have something that is life threatening, you will be put on a waiting list that may be up to 2 years even if you are in excruciating pain. I do believe that when we were living in England, we were paying 2 or 3 times as much for our health care as we did after we moved back to the states and received below average quality of health care in England.

Andy and I have good private health insurance here in the states and we are, by no stretch of the imagination, rich.

Also you have to ask the question whether physicians are the best ones to ask what they find about obamacare. They are the ones that now can invoice insane rates and are getting the financial benefit of the current status.

In this country physicians do not set the rates that they get reimbursed. The agreed upon "allowed" amount is agreed upon between the insurance companies (or the government in the cases of Medicare and Medicaid) and the physicians. These reimbursement rates are definitely not insane. I have examined my EOBs (Explanation of Benefits) every time my insurance company pays for something.

Every attempt to get away with the current status should be welcomed, even though you will know it needs regular refinement and correction in the next few decades.

ROF,L and LOL!!! Any attempt to change the current system should be welcomed? Even if it makes insurance more expensive and medical care less available? You have got to be kidding me. This is the politician's syllogism:

We must do something
This is something.
We must do this.
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