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Originally Posted by rahl
Very true, but when people who don't know the industry on either side(medical,or insurance) and they try to tell me whats wrong or that they know better than me what would be a better system, I just don't get it. I only responded to this discussion to try to give my viewpoints and experiences from an insurance point of view and I get bashed and told others know more on the subject because they read about it somewhere.
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No, no, don't give me that victim stuff. You did not get bashed. You put your own self on a pedestal and told us you had more expertise/knowledge about the industry, and therefore knew better than us why it
couldn't change.
I'm telling you, fine. For you, it pays your bills, because its your job, and I can understand you liking the status quo, or fearing major change, or whatever.
But I've lived my life without being able to afford a dentist or a visit to the doctor's, for more than three years now. Is that fair? Was I lazy? No, I needed food, and my boss gives me less and less shifts. Last time I went to the doctors, I had to pay 450 dollars just for blood tests.
The system is broken because tens of millions of people live in daily fear of becoming ill, or injured, and becoming a financial burden on their entire family.
So while I might not know how your employers work, administration-wise, I can tell you I've lived in France, where I had a family doctor. Who my parents had known for more than 15 years. Who knew all of my family's conditions, and knew how to treat them, and who would be able to prevent a lot of things from happening to us, just because we had
one doctor we could trust with our health, and it was covered. And had we decided he wasn't good enough, we could have gone somewhere else.
Don't tell me it can't work. I've seen it work, and I'm sure there's more than just France who has gov't healthcare. The reason you think so is because you've only lived in a shitty for-profit system, where the MO is "make money."
The main objective should be to keep the people healthy, for the least amount of money possible. It's not something anyone should gamble and profit from.