2006-12-05 15:03:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No. It can't be explained, which is why you are asking this question. The blend of private and governmental bureaucratic practices in this country will never make logical, economical or medical sense. It is so complicated, you can't even follow the money, which is what it is all about. If it is further "governmentlized", it will be even more difficult to understand, explain, or, comprehend.
2006-12-05 15:28:00 · answer #1 · answered by Fred C. Dobbs 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Based on the free market system -- like everything else here. Health care is very expensive -- more than it need be but everyone in this country can get it no matter how poor you are or what some dopes will try to tell you. Sure, you may not get to check in at the best hospital in the country but you will not be denied care just because you are broke. Which explains why the cost for services for us working people is so high. The system could use some major reform but socialized medicine is NOT the answer. Just ask our Canadian neighbors. If you have a boo-boo or the flu their system works great. If you need a heart bypass or a kidney transplant you are placed on a waiting list --- sometimes for months. This is why so many Canadians cross the border and pay for major surgery in the U.S. rather than wait. Co-president Hillary Clinton's socialized health plan would have been based on the Canadian system but would NOT have allowed paitents to choose their hospitals or doctors, would not have allowed doctors to choose their field of practice and would have seized 22% of the country's economy to run it, which would have resulted in massive tax increases. I wonder who would be choosen to go to the best hospitals vs the poorest...(politicans, perhaps?) This country has the very best health services on earth. Is is right that every citizen doesn't have access to all of it because of money? No. Is socialized medicine the answer? NO. Past time for smart vs political answers.
2006-12-05 15:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure if you are making a joke or are serious.
there really isn't an American Health care system
On a practical level there is a Byzantine web of independent insurers, hospitals, nurses, and the doctors who work in and around them.
If you meet certain criteria then the govt steps in the the gov't insurance medicare or medicaid (for the elderly or infirm)
so if you are lucky .. like I am now .. my employer pays about $3500 a year for me to belong to Blue Cross Blue shield .. a major insurance carrier.
If I need to go see a doc .. if I see one on the plan then I pay a $25 hit .. and insurance picks up the rest. If I want to see a specialist I can .. other plans one must go through a primary care doctor first to get permission to see the specialist.
If I get run over by a truck, then I have to pay I think $1000 up front .. and they will cover it up to some large sum.
I can get my teeth cleaned 2 a year free, and they will pick up 1/2 the cavities or 1/2 the cost of other major dental like crowns.
Also I am covered by short term and long term disability.
I get 1/2 pay for 6 months. then get cut off. if I am out of work for a year or more and get papers proving I am permanently disabled .then insurance kicks in for life at some level I think 1/2 pay. But still a bit rough to have to live for a year on savings if one is maimed.
This is a pretty standard sort of plan.
A sub-standard plan is one of the health savings accounts that one can put away money tax free, and then withdraw it for medical things. One then augments a plan like this with a large deductible for disaster insurance .. say getting hit by a truck.
If you cannot get on to such a plan .. then you are in deep Kim Chee and you best you don't have to see a doc.
More and more Americans are getting deep in the slop. I was there for 5 years without health insurance and it was a major sting to see a doc .. and often the docs really did not help except give a script for drugs I could not get on my own but knew I needed. $75 a visit for that????? grr.
Luckily I was younger and healthy ..and knock on wood . I shall stay healthy.
but I put off dental work I should have done.
My former employer's wife lost her front tooth because she wanted kitchen cabinets more and put off work .. then it cracked off and she had to have it pulled.
2006-12-05 15:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Health care for the rich, everyone else can go without or declare bankruptcy. Like so many other parts of our society, health care has been taken over by corporate interests, whose only barometer for success is the next stock holders meeting. Lay off the nurses, or make them quit by paying them less and asking an RN to take care for 60+ patients a shift - you do the math. 90% of graduating nurse quit after 5 years. The whole system is in a state of collapse. Without serious and immediate remedy, it will be non functional within 5 years.
2006-12-05 15:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is the only system of free enterprise remaining in the USA. The powerful AMA is determined to keep it that way, free of controls, argueing after finishing all that time in medical school they deserve to charge whatever the market will bear.
2006-12-05 15:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by longroad 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
properly kyle, i wasn't conscious "individuals" "were" crying out for replace interior the healthcare gadget. i experience the severe pollthat got here out reported 80 3% were happy with their modern plans and "gadget". yet i wager we can not get into specifics now can we. what's going to artwork is being completely left out with techniques from our elected leaders so if i replaced into you i ought to assume the status quo in elementary words worse. with the authorities now in contact, history shows us that they take a semi situation and turn it right into a "disaster" as evidenced with medicaid and medicare and an entire plethora of social redistribution classes. haven't any worry although, your healthcare will be "loose", and that is precisely what you're looking forward to accurate ??????
2016-11-30 04:58:08 · answer #6 · answered by mrotek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rich have insurance and don't pay. The poor have no insurance and don't pay. The illegals are treated better than all and don't pay. The middle class have insurance, but still have to pay (taxes).
2006-12-05 15:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is the basic free market system.
2006-12-05 15:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. It is incomprehensible.
2006-12-05 15:28:44 · answer #9 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋