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Originally Posted by billyb
You must have never been to Cuba before if you really believe that. Cuba has one of the worst health care systems in the world. One of the problems why health care is so expensive her is because of to many lawsuits that drive up the cost.
We need tort reform here big time, we also need to curb excessive payouts for example, an asprin for $25.00 is a joke!. I will tell you this though, that every major leader who is in need of skilled medical care for surgery comes here.
They don't go to Cuba or Canada or even the UK, why is that?. It is because we have the best hospitals and doctors plain and simple. We as I said need to curb a lot of these high cost, but as I said we have to take care of tort reform.
Just ask any doctor what they have to pay a month just for their insurance, it will scare you. This also is a reason for the high cost of health care. If you need a major operation, i can guarantee you that you will want to have that done here in the US  |
Everyone loves to use the excuse of lawsuits as the main reason. The idea behind that is if you get rid of the lawsuits the big coprations will have even more profits at less risk. They damn sure wouldn't drop the prices.
Look at medications for example to this. I have a prescription for a med that cost me around $160 dollars per refill, here in the US. I can order the exact same medicane online made by the same fucking company for under $40 USD buying it from a country out side the US.
Now you tell me where lawsuits have anything at all to do with that. It's simple greed and the big Pharm's get away with because they can. That's the same reason medical insurance is so high, because they can get away charging that much.
Hospitals charge $25 for a asprin because they have to fight tooth and nail to get payment for services done out of the insurance companies. That and to make up for all the no pays that have no insurance.