You know how you solve the health care issue? Make all subsidized
health care illegal, make all insurance based health care illegal. Enforce self
pay healthcare for everyone. Doctors would now be competing against each other
for clients. Prices would reduce, and you would have people more focused on
staying healthy and eating correctly and exercising. Every time insurance gets
involved, it completely screws things up.
I found that comment on ZH- months ago.
Think of the possibilities. We wouldn't just eliminate the
middleman- we'd eliminate an entire blood sucking industry that wastes 1/3rd of
every health care dollar on administrative costs.
We all pay our own way- what a novel idea!
The same thing occurred at colleges and universities in the
last 1/4 of the 20th century. The education industry found a middleman,
bankers, and greased their way to the highest tuition increases in the history
of education. Think about that. That system, just like the health care system,
is irretrievably broken.
Middlemen, whether they are health
insurance companies or bankers, fuel greed while lining their own pockets.
They have no interest in slowing the system down or making it accountable or
cost effective. In fact, the higher costs go- the more the middlemen make. They
want costs to escalate. They are not bearing the costs directly and thus the
higher costs go- the more money they scrape off the top.
Until the systems break. Of course the consumer goes first.
Then the system does. The tapeworms always go last, at some point after the
host dies.
Wouldn't you love to hit the reset button on those two
industries? I can't even begin to imagine the possibilities.
Most of the time, people fail to understand the importance of such a solution, which can be their escape plan from a situation like this. The key to escape plan is known as health insurance plans.
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