AerchAngel
<B>Secretary of Statistics</B>
The argument Mossy makes is exactly why we should have universal healthcare.
Instead of poking at the poor and those bordering poor and middle class over health insurance and whether or not they deserve to have access to basic healthcare, the misguided hate should be directed at insurance companies whom are using human life as a game of numbers.
Oh I agree with that, but that is not the problem, it is the suing hospitals and doctors trying to save your life that runs up cost. I went to the emergency and was looked at for 15 minutes while waiting 7 hours and I had insurance. My bill was $2150. My insurance paid around $1300. $800 for nothing. I will never go to the emergency room again, I don't care how much pain I am in (wife had to bring me in and I had to crawl to a chair). But that is not the sad part, the ones in the room with me, about 12, all came after me were seen first and left. I was like I've been here for 3 hours (watching Discovery channel and re-runs) and these people went before me. It is like, well you have insurance you can wait, then charge you for the time you been there, according to the insurance company. Lost a day of sick time and then waited 7 hours before being seen and only 15 minutes to get some pills. No blood work, no x-ray, nothing, just ask what is the issue, here take this and out the door.
That is the problem.
I like the care for one reason only, insurance companies can't stiff people with terrible rates with preexisting conditions. It is like that the Americans against it believe in Darwinism.
Well we have docs and a NP at our workplace so people do not go to the emergency room. Since our insurance is cheap, they figured instead of paying around 2 mil in health care in cash, having a doc on call and a NP on site would alleviate that. But a lot of companies can't do that and won't when the minimum wage is increased. We only have around 160 in our company and can afford it now but the boss told us if the min wage is raised, it will be higher than their normal non minimal wage and he expects those who fall in that range want more and then office workers, specialist like me and salesman and managers, then we have to raise prices, bigger companies than can take us out because their workers are usually minimum wage (price wars are fun because I am the one who does the program to see how we can angle our prices).
Not a good thing.