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Originally Posted by suesheboy
The answer is simple about the prices, cost of insurance for Doctors is too high, too many people treated do not pay and/or have no insurance, and last nut not least it is a for profit business with a million hands getting cuts every which way.
I had medical care for an emergency on Germany in the 70s where they performed micro surgery and reattached my thumb along with and followups for less that the price of the $100 aspirin.
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I agree. I think that tort reform should have been the first order of business to bring down the costs of malpractice insurance.
It's amazing...I go to the doctor and he is FORCED to have several expensive tests done to confirm what his training and knowledge already knew.
So the costs go up.
Then there is the paperwork. Instead of a secretary to handle appointments and answer the phone...he has a STAFF of people working in his office to handle all the insurance and govt. paperwork.
This whole damn thing is a giant money machine. Problem is...WE are the ones who have to feed it in the end.
I would like to see true healthcare reform that would return us to the sanity of being able to pay for a doctor visit our of pocket because it isn't too expensive in the first place. And "insurance" would actually BE insurance...i.e.: For a catastrophic incident.
I just don't think our Federal Govt. will EVER do it. There's no money in actually fixing the system.
