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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Has anyone heard about this?
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:27:53 -0800

The U.S. ranks #37 in healthcare. Even Columbia ranks higher than the U.S.! Scary, huh?

France ranks #1. Perhaps we should be looking at what they do. I know they have a much better means of doing billing. I know their offices are still doc, nurse, office person. Some don't even have a nurse. The office person greets you, pulls the chart and the doc does the rest.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>


When I lived in Florida, my family doc refused to accept any insurance policy.....

Remember the old days? On office person, one nurse, one doc? Instead of 5 extra people to argue with the insurance companies about whether the doc could treat the patient?

That was my docs office.... actually, 2 docs, 1 office person, 1 nurse.

And guess what. The amount charged for the visits was far far far less than what was being charged in my former family docs' office who had to leap thru all the hoops to get permission to be a doc.

STEP ONE
IMO keep 3rd parties out. Keep government out. Keep employers out.
Employers should drop providing insurance as a benefit and just give people a raise.

STEP TWO
Let the people decide what kind of policy they want.
If they want an insurance company to pay for visits for sniffly noses, then let them pay higher rates for all the extra visits. If they only want major things covered - let people be able to negotiate that.

If people don't like the rules of the insurance company they chose, they can switch as fast as they switch underwear. That way the insurance companies would come up with products that their customers actually want and can afford.

If people get the extra money in their paycheck and then choose not to buy insurance, well that is their choice. They can save the premiums that would have been spent for a rainy doc day,,, or spend it, but don't expect someone else to pay their bills.

I'm still reading the USConstitution and Bill of Rights, and I still haven't found a clause that says that all or any Americans are entitled to health care. I did find the right to pursuit liberty, life and happiness section.

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