Health care problems....weren't they CAUSED by the government???

Question

Most politicians stand up and talk about how they're going to fix health care. The free markets have failed health care, etc.

However, isn't it the politicians who have forced Hospitals to give away free services? Try setting up a Hot Dog stand with the government telling you that you have to give them away for free to anyone who asks. How long will you stay in business?

They've allowed lawyers to sue doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies to no end.

If you write a book or a song (in a matter of days) you can get royalties from that for decades to come. Cure cancer, and after paying millions, sometimes billions to discover and market it, nearly 1 billion to get it FDA approved, you have only 7 years to earn back what you've put into it and make a profit so that you have capital to cure something else.

Don't we want people taking risks to cause disease and allow them to profit greatly if they do?

So, isn't it government that screwed it up and want more govt. to fix it?

I'm not going to claim that all medical providers, insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals are saints, however the free market will push prices down. It's not those things that has made the system as screwed up as it is.

You make some good points and I agree with you that physicians can and should be sued when there is negligance. However it's become a new type of lottery among patients and lawyers. How many of us have had a day at work without making a mistake, yet we expect perfection from doctors. If a doctor is operating druk or removes the wrong kidney, that's an appropriate lawsuit, however most are frivolous.

$9 for your medication....did you account for the R&D, insurance, FDA approval, marketing, and all other expenses that were incurred by that division while they were developing that drug? My guess is that the pill that cures cancer will only cost about $9 to manufacture as well.

Doctors go to extreme lengths to get the education that they do. And the cost goes well beyond the time and the money. These are the poeple who help us heal when we're sick or fix us when we're hurt.

Doctors have to work more and more, they make less and less, and have to put up with more crap than ever. Again, the message we're sending is: "If you work hard, and make good money, maybe we can sue you and take it all away".

30 years ago there was a lot more motivation to be a doctor than there is today. In Nevada it's VERY difficult to get an appointment with an OBGYN....even if you're pregnant.

Who will you feel sorry for when your spouse dies because there's no physicain available to remove her burst appendix??? Shouldn't we make it good for people to do things that are good for us rather than bad???

How much would you have to make to incur 200k in debt while you went to school for 12 years after high school (getting only top grades)???

Answer 1

yes... i do believe that these things are really pushed by the gov't and laws! these things are pretty horrible. i did a research paper on this, and also, i personally know many doctors. a lot is pushed by malpractice. yes, in some cases, doctors do deserve to be sued, but what about so many of them that don't deserve it! many times, such as birth defects or something, those are not the doctors fault, that is the mothers fault(a lot of times due to malnutrition, alcohol consumtion, smoking, etc.)! yet, malpractice lawyers are only too happy to scoop these things up and sue doctors for millions of dollars (not all lawyers are bad, i just don't think that injury lawyers serve a helpful purpose) and people wonder why there are rising health care prices. because doctors use defensive medicine! they order tons of extra labs, to prevent malpractice. people in america are willing to spend more money on their hair and nails than they are to keep themselves healthy. and no, universal health care is not the answer. just look at canada for that answer. people will not truly appreciate doctors until they are gone. it is so sad to see so many doctors work harder and harder, yet, they make less. they spend years in school, so they can go help people, and when they come out, they get all poo pooed on, and then we have politicians up on the podium to take away their tax cuts. these people work very hard, and then they are supposed to make up for the rest of society, and those who couldn't get their act together. these politicians who think they are really great, are actually prohibiting the advances of health care, by not letting it be a free market. the er turns no one away, and so many people walk in there because they have a cold. why do they get you out of there fast, because you have no reason for being there. duh. it is ridiculous that doctors and hospitals should have to give their services away for peanuts, for everything that the contribute to society. and no, to the person above me, doctors and most hospitals are not non-profit. the american society needs a change in attitude, because obviously malpractice and harsher and harsher laws and taxes are not making things better, and obviously universal health care is not the solution.
shouldn't we be thanking doctors, for keeping us healthy, and sacrificing so much (family time, higher taxes, long schooling, long work days, commitment to helping people)? Its really sad to see people cut down doctors more and more.

Answer 2

Well, most drugs aren't financed by drug companies R&D, and a lot they get free development. Do you have any idea how much money we have spent on looking for cures for diseases! You think the drug companies funded that? You think drug companies are funding more than a small portion of Cancer research!

Hospitals, as part of low interest loans they are given for building agree to give away so much free medical care. What many do is use that they haven't collected, and that has nothing to do with income!

Many hospitals stabalize you and kick you out to one run by a city. In addition they are non-profit, but they make millions. All they have to do is give it to their brass, or build physicians offices and claim no income. But then you get charged! We have no control over their salaries or income.

Don't cry for MD's. If they take out the wrong kidney, and it is the healthy one, they deserve to be sued. If they cause someones death by negligence, they deserve to be sued, if they diagnose a shaken baby that has bi-Lateral retinal hemmorhages as an allergy to milk(and he has old and new bruises on his body, then the kid comes back permanently brain damaged they deserve to be sued.

And when you sue you usually have to go through a state board first. And guess who makes them up? MD's!

Then if you do sue, and you haven't died yet, the verdict of an award that makes the news is cut by the judge to almost nothing! Then guess what, they appeal that and you wait another decade, and you are dead!

Don't cry for drug companies ( I was charged $135.00 for a medicine they make for 9$), and don't cry for MD's, they are not hurting and they sure are not among the 50% of Americans who make $25,000 or less.

Where do you get your info, the drug companies? Why don't you go ask cigarette manufacturers if smoking causes cancer? Better yet, ask the government if inhaling uranium particals from depleted uranium shells in a tank causes cancer? Or even better, go ask the government anfd the companies who got rich off of agent blue or orange 40 years ago, and have paid out squat, if it causes cancer! Everyone knows it does except the government and the manufacturer!

Sorry, you won't find me shedding one damn tear!

I agree it is the governments issue that they protect these merchants of death from really paying what they should be paying!

Answer 3

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