Competition in the field of health providers makes me sick. And it should do the same to you…in fact it may be doing that right now.
First, I have to ask why we think it’s a good thing to privatize medicine, but it’s not good to privatize …oh, let’s say, “Armies and Navies”. Why not? Is it because the defense of the nation is too important to allow some private company make life and death decisions that affect millions of citizens? And the health of the nation is…what? Less important?
Have you ever considered that maybe; just maybe…you have been fed a pack of lies by the health insurance industry? And maybe, just maybe…competition is not the way to ensure adequate health care for all of our citizens?
Private insurance does not compete by delivering healthcare at a lower cost. They compete on the basis of “Risk Selection”. They turn away those they consider at risk for higher medical bills and they stonewall demands for payment whenever they can. Every day that a $10,000 payment stays in their bank and not the doctors bank, generates interest money for them.
Logic and experience should tell us that the health system is broken and it won’t be fixed by more of the same lies from the insurance providers. Health care is BIG business and it shouldn’t be. It should be what we, as a nation, can do for each other…care for each other.
I couldn't agree with you more, in the early days of America we had private fire departments and police departments and it was decided for the greater good it was better to eliminate the private fire insurance companies and go with public fire departments.
ReplyDeleteThe health care system is out of control. This industry falls outside of normal enterprise.