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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
So you're okay with decisions about your health being made based on whether some stock holders will make a profit or not?
Not, it is not unreasonable for a business to optimize for profit. I DO find it unreasonable for health care to be run as a business.
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Then your problem is with health insurance companies even existing. I would take it then that the President's plan is inadequate in the scope then.
Trust me....insurance companies have about 40 years to catch up to make a profit on me. My surgery at the Mayo clinic was close to 6 figures. And covered. Perhaps i've just had a different experience than most. Mayo wasn't even a hospital that my insurance woulod cover. However, since the only doctors qualified to perform it were at USC, somewhere in Oregon, or in New York, after I went to three local surgeons who took my insurance that all said they were not qualified, they allowed me to go to the Mayo.
I do not regard it as them making decisions. I regard it as i have entered a contract with them for a certain amount of coverage with rules. I can pay more for more coverage, less for less. I am respsonsible to know what is and isn't covered. They are responsible to uphold their end of the bargain. Should they not, it is certainly a pain to deal with, and in matters of life and death, the delay can certainly cost lives, which is not acceptable.