As far as insurance costs going up: if anyone has been paying attention, they have been going up between 5 and 20 % per year for years. My personal health insurance has almost tripled in the 9 years that I’ve been paying premiums. Now, granted, I’m nine years older, but I am healthy. I can’t imagine what would happen if I actually needed to use my insurance coverage.
When you take away the cost of unpaid emergency-room services from “nowhere” and add them to the cost of health care, it’s frightening. In 2011, more than $39 BILLION was unpaid emergency room fees. We pay for it, whether it’s in that column of the balance sheet or not.
And, what’s more cost-effective: paying for meds for diabetes, or having a patient who can’t afford them wait until he/she needs amputation, dialysis, etc? A stitch in time….
When all is said and done, though, single-payer Medicare for all is what this particular doctor sees as the only alternative for the train wreck that was the previous system, and the well-intentioned but unworkable ACA. The sooner we do something about this the better, but repeal-only is a fool’s mission.
As far as insurance costs going up: if anyone has been paying attention, they have been going up between 5 and 20 % per year for years. My personal health insurance has almost tripled in the 9 years that I’ve been paying premiums. Now, granted, I’m nine years older, but I am healthy. I can’t imagine what would happen if I actually needed to use my insurance coverage.
When you take away the cost of unpaid emergency-room services from “nowhere” and add them to the cost of health care, it’s frightening. In 2011, more than $39 BILLION was unpaid emergency room fees. We pay for it, whether it’s in that column of the balance sheet or not.
And, what’s more cost-effective: paying for meds for diabetes, or having a patient who can’t afford them wait until he/she needs amputation, dialysis, etc? A stitch in time….
When all is said and done, though, single-payer Medicare for all is what this particular doctor sees as the only alternative for the train wreck that was the previous system, and the well-intentioned but unworkable ACA. The sooner we do something about this the better, but repeal-only is a fool’s mission.