single payer would eliminate the inefficiencies and price fixing that the insurance companies are imposing on us now, and getting them out of the equation means not having to worry about competition.

the only person I saw was a nurse practitioner who did a nice job but I wonder who these 3 doctors I get the bills from even are. When I ask what services they performed I stopped getting 2 of their bills.

This is also a pretty good argument for a co-pay. Once your own skin is in the game you pay more attention to how much they’re charging and whether they’re frauds.

The government should have a web site where fraud can be reported instantly!

the deductions have gotten higher and higher each year.

Why don’t you change insurance companies? Is there no alternative?

We need competition and if the government has to provide some, then so be it.

The billing people at the hospitals will now ask you for money before they treat you.

This is one of the most distasteful things that happens at a hospital.

They should never be allowed to let money intervene before emergency health care. I think this is already the law.

However, they should never be allowed to apply that pressure when you are ill and in pain and are very vulnerable. Financial stuff should only be done with healthy people (or their representatives).

the day I was passing blood clots as kidney stones the hospital business office came to my room demanding $723.00 right then

Outrageous…ly funny.

Should any financial business really be done in a hospital room or hallway?
Should anyone be required to pay money to either get health care or to leave a health care place? Isn’t that false imprisonment anyway?

Honestly, my suggestion is to just enroll everyone in medicare and ramp that up.

See Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.

they should be NON-PROFITS like credit unions

Is there anything preventing that from happening now?

One big problem with the paperwork is that the current system thrives on pushing paper. It’s in the insurance company’s interest to make it as hard as possible to get things done

Taking away their ability to choose what to cover and taking away their ability to probe your history should end a lot, if not all, of that.

my husband was permanently disabled by a really bad American doctor

My dad was once treated by a man who, it was discovered, wasn’t a doctor at all. The hospital was scared to death of law suits, so they forced him out. He just went across a state line and started up again.

This isn’t good and no hospital should be in that position.

Even a national registry of bad doctors wouldn’t have solved that problem. The man quit and went somewhere else without anything on the record about him NOT being a real doctor or about him NOT being good.