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<blockquote data-quote="beatupbrown" data-source="post: 243669" data-attributes="member: 4488"><p>Folks we have a broken health care system in the USA.</p><p><strong>While we rank number 1 worldwide in health-related spending, </strong><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/062100-01.htm" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>we rank</strong></span></u></a><strong> 37th in overall health performance.</strong></p><p>The assumptions upon which the current system are built are outdated, obsolete, and illogical. The system requires a wholesale reevaluation and rebuilding from the bottom up, including our rights, our responsibilities - and our reasonable expectations. If virtually every other developed nation (and several underdeveloped) can take care of their sick, we certainly ought to be given the chance.</p><p>This profit-driven insurance-based medical reimbursement system is fatally flawed on several levels – and always has been. The basic business model of any insurance company is to do everything possible to collect premiums and then do everything possible to deny coverage. Therefore, people who need medical attention are frequently denied expensive (but often the most effective) treatment or, alternatively, people with pre-existing conditions can’t get insurance coverage in the first place - when they are the ones who need it most. As a result, insurance companies often dictate the most critical medical decisions more than the physicians. It’s just so wrong.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ohmy:" title="Ohmy :ohmy:" data-shortname=":ohmy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beatupbrown, post: 243669, member: 4488"] Folks we have a broken health care system in the USA. [B]While we rank number 1 worldwide in health-related spending, [/B][URL="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/062100-01.htm"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][B]we rank[/B][/COLOR][/U][/URL][B] 37th in overall health performance.[/B] The assumptions upon which the current system are built are outdated, obsolete, and illogical. The system requires a wholesale reevaluation and rebuilding from the bottom up, including our rights, our responsibilities - and our reasonable expectations. If virtually every other developed nation (and several underdeveloped) can take care of their sick, we certainly ought to be given the chance. This profit-driven insurance-based medical reimbursement system is fatally flawed on several levels – and always has been. The basic business model of any insurance company is to do everything possible to collect premiums and then do everything possible to deny coverage. Therefore, people who need medical attention are frequently denied expensive (but often the most effective) treatment or, alternatively, people with pre-existing conditions can’t get insurance coverage in the first place - when they are the ones who need it most. As a result, insurance companies often dictate the most critical medical decisions more than the physicians. It’s just so wrong.:ohmy: [/QUOTE]
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