Originally Posted by L-Pink

US healthcare is based on "for profit businesses" ... the insurance companies, paying doctors and hospitals for their services. Sounds simple.

In practice however these insurance companies only motivation is profit NOT health care. As a result they only insure those they know they can make a profit from ... those less likely to need medical care.

Insurance companies are allowed to discriminate based on age, health, even the health of those related to you.

So what happens to those that were never insurable or those that are now not profitable enough to insure?

You young guys ..... I know the feeling of never thinking you will get sick or die. Well right now you probably won't, that's why they are taking your money. When they stop taking your money, what then? Or if you can't pay for some reason?

Final note: Insurance companies also charge doctors anywhere from $50,000 to $300,000 per year in malpractice insurance. That's a big nut to cover on a daily basis so every cover your ass test will be run, needed or not, cost be damned.


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