The problem with US healthcare is that HMOs, drug companies and hospitals all collude to price fix.
If you are a poor person wanting to pay cash for a hospital visit, you will pay more, a lot more than the HMOs will have to pay to put one of their insureds in. Why? Because they bargain the price down with their market power. So the person who can least afford it without insurance is the one who pays more.
In addition, drugs just over the border in Canada and Mexico, the same drugs, are many times cheaper. The drug companies talk about safety and so on - but its all a smoke screen. They raise the drug prices sky high in the US and ban the import of drugs from Canada and Mexico to protect their price fixing monopoly.
Those without insurance - which is a lot of people, just have to die if they need serious surgery. I believe that is wrong. The very least that society should provide people is health care. Whether you are poor or not, the USA is a rich enough country to permit
And I was someone who was not on welfare, and earning good money, but I could barely afford to pay medical bills in the US. Someone getting paid less would have been smashed. The employer had bad insurance coverage, so while you were theoretically covered you were not really. In the end the employer made up the difference when I ran out of money, but they could easily have said, we are not doing it.
So thats a very harsh outcome - that people are told if you do not have the money you must suffer and die.
If you are a poor person wanting to pay cash for a hospital visit, you will pay more, a lot more than the HMOs will have to pay to put one of their insureds in. Why? Because they bargain the price down with their market power. So the person who can least afford it without insurance is the one who pays more.
In addition, drugs just over the border in Canada and Mexico, the same drugs, are many times cheaper. The drug companies talk about safety and so on - but its all a smoke screen. They raise the drug prices sky high in the US and ban the import of drugs from Canada and Mexico to protect their price fixing monopoly.
Those without insurance - which is a lot of people, just have to die if they need serious surgery. I believe that is wrong. The very least that society should provide people is health care. Whether you are poor or not, the USA is a rich enough country to permit
And I was someone who was not on welfare, and earning good money, but I could barely afford to pay medical bills in the US. Someone getting paid less would have been smashed. The employer had bad insurance coverage, so while you were theoretically covered you were not really. In the end the employer made up the difference when I ran out of money, but they could easily have said, we are not doing it.
So thats a very harsh outcome - that people are told if you do not have the money you must suffer and die.
