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Originally Posted by crucifissio
I understand the insurance part but what about offering medical services with no insurance deals, just for cash, with reasonable non-rapist bills for medical services? A doctors "shop" if you will.
Another thing would be what is stopping somebody from offering honest health insurance and cooperating with honest establishments? Would such a health plan/combo not be the easiest sell ever?
3rd world shit hole torn to shit by half a century of sanctions cuba has a lower infant mortality than the USA so quality healthcare is obviously in no correlation with huge expenses.
I understand that the system is corrupt but how could they stop a normal doctor charging normal rates and a normal health insurance program charging normal rates? *obviously the honest health insurance could only be applied in honest doctors offices , the corrupt hospitals would not be covered but would, in time, have to adapt to normal rates or die...
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They could do this, but one problem that would hold it back is the corporatization of those doctors. Many independent doctor's offices are being bought up by larger companies. I live in a pretty small town. When I moved here about 10 years ago there were 3 independent pharmacies and 1 pharmacy that was part of a big chain store. There were also 3 or 5 independent doctor's offices. Now there is 1 independent pharmacy (the others closed down because both Walgreens and CVS opened up and put them out of business) and we are down to 1 independent doctor, the rest are still here, but they are now part of bigger corporate healthcare companies.