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The money is not coming to us as doctors, that's for sure! It is excruciating to hear of the price for individual plans for health insurance rising from $500 to $600 to $700 a month year by year. I see no evidence on the ground that there is some marked leap up in the amount of testing done. I did see 17 hospitals in the city of New York close since the year 2000. Read More
public option
The one hope we had, that of a public option, was squashed during the last revamp of healthcare, which itself is still fighting the conservative agenda.
It is the saddest state of all modern nations, where our access to healthcare lags so far behind that I can understand how doctors are embarrassed.
Maybe they'll wake up when we have more people die of more obvious preventable diseases; not to discount how many already do in obscurity.
Nations need to begin to disregard pharma patents to distribute the medicines when/where needed, and make legal for import into the states.
That would be a more consumer focused reality that benefits the most, rather than what we have.
Good to Hear it from a Doctor
As a patient with a pre-existing condition, and medication an treatments that equate to roughly $100,000/year in medical expense if I didn't have insurance, it is good to hear that the doctors are as upset about the the insurance companies as we patients are. There is a big effort to keep this quiet it seems. The only time I really get the other perspective is through isolated anecdotal conversations with doctors. Doctors don't get a voice and neither really do patients. Instead we are just told that doctor agencies and patient organizations have some seat at some theoretical table during the healthcare discussion. And we know that that discussion was hosted by insurance companies and their lobbyists. Thanks for the hand out.
So we know this is going on. The real question is what can we do to make a change with or without or government's help? If someone has any ideas please let me know. I will be on it in a heartbeat. Pun intended. ;)
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