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 masbury says: Insurance too little, hospital demands cancer patient pay $105,000 before being admitted. Yet hospitals making record profits. Doctors in the USA are not healers. They are vultures! No insurance = No Treatment, that's how my mother died, lack of insurance and not a real healer in the whole hospital! I had to physically grab a Dr. and shake him to make him give my Dad morphine when he was screaming in pain in the Portland VA hospital when he was dying of brain cancer. Really frickin' ridiculous. The good ol' USA claims to have the best. It's a big LIE! The USA has some of the best medical technology in the world.. Unfortunately, access to it is the worst when compared to other first world nations. The U.S. also ranks last in the efficiency with which advanced nations process and pay health care claims. Whereas other countries use SmartCards to instantly process claims and pay doctors, we in the U.S. are still bogged down in a paper jungle of forms for claims, denials, deferred and adjusted payments, and the repeated verification of our identification. Do you really think that socialized medicine would be better? http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=01 I agree with several comments here, but this is typical of anecdotal journalism that tries to force policy (instead of mere reporting) through a few extreme examples. This journalistic approach is what leads to revolutionary and turbulent changes, always for the "public good". This is one piece, designed to inflame personal emotions, and not being a common case, is hardly the basis for reasonable health policy. Some of us have no health insurance, pay on our own, and know that personal responsibility for medical treatment is still largely our own, and cannot be blamed or pushed on to all of society, as if everyone must be forced to care for me out of their own pockets by universal health ... Do you really think that socialized medicine would be better?As an American who lived in a country with socialized medicine, I can answer that quite easily: YES. |
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