Health Insurance failure best shot for National Health Care

[SAXMAR]

Since the Bush Administration is up for bailing out private institutions maybe if the Health Insurance Industries get in big trouble we can finally get National Health Insurance. I was going to suggest everyone act sick and demand health treatment similar to a run on a bank to take our money out. However, I think the state of our economy is REALLY making us sick anyway. Plus when none of us can afford to heat our homes this winter we will get sick for real.

saxmar

[Oregone]

1. Parasites evolve

Strains that kill their hosts are not as favored in natural selection as those that can thrive while allowing their hosts to live.

Its nice you are hopeful, but Im guessing they will just learn for a few years and evolve. After all, its much tougher to insure and charge a dead person, than a living person. I think this is a lesson that will be refreshed but by no means, will they go away.

[wolfgangmo]

2. the problem here is that..

.. care providers are used to and budget not to get paid by the insurance companies for at LEAST 6 months, sometimes as long as 3 or 4 years.

We only have a few months to get this done and the insurance companies won't even notice this on their bottom line for a LONG time. If ever if you consider that they would just change policies if they saw a spike in usage and just drop coverage for more people.

Interesting story. We severed financial ties with a sister practice about 2 years ago when we shifted our practice to cash only in order to survive financially. They decided not to and are having to downsize due to several of the insurance companies they work with re-categorized previously paid for and approved treatments. The upshot of this is that for the next 2 years or so this small medical practice will get not a single dime from the insurance companies until they "pay back" money on account. Basically the insurance companies are refusing to pay them for future patients because they are claiming that a treatment that was authorized by the insurance companies in questions is now "disallowed."

It's is sad, but I think that wonderful practice will be closing it's doors.

Welcome to how America treats it's doctors and nurses. And we wonder why we have a shortage.