Having a loved one with health issues I have spent lots of time in hospitals and dealt with lots of doctors. It has been my experience that our health system is hopelessly broken now and love it or hate it, it’s time we accept the conclusion that every other first world nation has come to and that is National Health Care (NHC).
1) Health insurance has become way, way too expensive for those that pay for it. And it’s rocketing up every year.
2) The rest pay anywhere from little to nothing into the system. People who are not citizens even get free healthcare.
Is that sustainable?
3) If you have no insurance or are under-insured BUT have a job and are getting by….getting ill or in an accident will ruin your life financially forever.
Is that right?
I used to agree with those that said that our healthcare system was the envy of the world. But for a decade now it’s crumbled to the point that it’s horribly unfair. Maybe healthcare has simply failed to change with the economic realities in America? After-all most of us used to work for large companies building things of use. Those companies paid for healthcare and pensions.
Then we switched to service jobs and more small business jobs that did not provide those things and still tried to keep the old healthcare system?
On the billing issue. I recently had to go to the emergency room. I was treated like shit until they learned I had insurance (I wonder if illegals get this treatment?). Once the discovered insurance, multiple tests insued. They must be happy with what they are getting because they sure get eager to do billable stuff when they know they have insurance to work with.
