Originally Posted by DonovanTrent

I don't base anything on quotes like that, I'd have to read the entire thing. Often, quotes taken out of context can take on a directly opposite meaning to what they ACTUALLY mean when taken within their context. I hope you agree.



If healthcare were truly pay-as-you-go, prices would be lower for all of us.

No patient has a clue what a Bindenjender-Floxamaster test costs, so they have no reason NOT to want insurance to pay for it, if there's a snowball's chance it could find something. And doctors are basically paid for piecework rather than results, so why not run the extra probably-unnecessary test?

That's 90% of the problem right there. People in this country have lost focus on what health insurance REALLY should be for: catastrophic events. Not for checkups or crap like that. Health insurance plans should really be more like $5000 deductibles that are designed to help you out if your kidney explodes or whatever. Not for doing 22 different tests because you have a jerky knee.