OT: Health insurance cost

[SD Transplant]

this recent article is just icing on the cake:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0SU20100623

“In 2007, health spending was $7,290 per person in the United States, more than double that of any other country in the survey.

Australians spent $3,357, Canadians $3,895, Germans $3,588, the Netherlands $3,837 and Britons spent $2,992 per capita on health in 2007. New Zealand spent the least at $2,454.

This is a big rise from the Fund’s last similar survey, in 2007, which found Americans spent $6,697 per capita on healthcare in 2005, or 16 percent of gross domestic product.

“We rank last on safety and do poorly on several dimensions of quality,” Schoen told reporters. “We do particularly poorly on going without care because of cost. And we also do surprisingly poorly on access to primary care and after-hours care.”

NETHERLANDS RANKED FIRST OVERALL
“

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]
This incremental improvement is just awesome, I can’t wait for the next increment.[/quote]

Yep, insurance companies are just AWESOME aren’t they? I can’t count the number of ways they’ve screwed my family over.

Just warms my heart to think politicians forced the administration into an all-insurance company based solution since a government-sponsored health plan would have been soooo much worse. Snort.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]
This incremental improvement is just awesome, I can’t wait for the next increment.[/quote]

Yep, insurance companies are just AWESOME aren’t they? I can’t count the number of ways they’ve screwed my family over.

Just warms my heart to think politicians forced the administration into an all-insurance company based solution since a government-sponsored health plan would have been soooo much worse. Snort.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]
This incremental improvement is just awesome, I can’t wait for the next increment.[/quote]

Yep, insurance companies are just AWESOME aren’t they? I can’t count the number of ways they’ve screwed my family over.

Just warms my heart to think politicians forced the administration into an all-insurance company based solution since a government-sponsored health plan would have been soooo much worse. Snort.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]
This incremental improvement is just awesome, I can’t wait for the next increment.[/quote]

Yep, insurance companies are just AWESOME aren’t they? I can’t count the number of ways they’ve screwed my family over.

Just warms my heart to think politicians forced the administration into an all-insurance company based solution since a government-sponsored health plan would have been soooo much worse. Snort.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]
This incremental improvement is just awesome, I can’t wait for the next increment.[/quote]

Yep, insurance companies are just AWESOME aren’t they? I can’t count the number of ways they’ve screwed my family over.

Just warms my heart to think politicians forced the administration into an all-insurance company based solution since a government-sponsored health plan would have been soooo much worse. Snort.

[Coronita]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Premiums-for-new-high-risk-apf-3567905951.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

Premiums for h”high risk” people to be well, expensive….

….So again, whom is this health plan going to benefit????

[Coronita]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Premiums-for-new-high-risk-apf-3567905951.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

Premiums for h”high risk” people to be well, expensive….

….So again, whom is this health plan going to benefit????

[Coronita]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Premiums-for-new-high-risk-apf-3567905951.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

Premiums for h”high risk” people to be well, expensive….

….So again, whom is this health plan going to benefit????

[Coronita]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Premiums-for-new-high-risk-apf-3567905951.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

Premiums for h”high risk” people to be well, expensive….

….So again, whom is this health plan going to benefit????

[Coronita]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Premiums-for-new-high-risk-apf-3567905951.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

Premiums for h”high risk” people to be well, expensive….

….So again, whom is this health plan going to benefit????

[enron_by_the_sea]

HCR was never about controlling costs or controlling premiums.

It was all about increasing coverage to people who could not pay for it by taking money from people who had it.

[enron_by_the_sea]

HCR was never about controlling costs or controlling premiums.

It was all about increasing coverage to people who could not pay for it by taking money from people who had it.

[enron_by_the_sea]

HCR was never about controlling costs or controlling premiums.

It was all about increasing coverage to people who could not pay for it by taking money from people who had it.

[enron_by_the_sea]

HCR was never about controlling costs or controlling premiums.

It was all about increasing coverage to people who could not pay for it by taking money from people who had it.

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