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Originally Posted by rahl
Like so many arguments in these forums, your personal experience or experiences of a few people you know can not and do not prove anything, other than the fact that you had a bad experience. There are proper procedures for filing any type of paperwork and if things aren't filled out properly they are void. If you write a check on 08/11/2009 but dated it 10/11/2009 and try to cash it before then the bank will say no way. Is the bank some evil corporation trying to steal your money from you? Of course not. Even though you made an honest mistake, perhaps like that of the person coding your claim, you can't circumvent procedure.
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I am amazed by this little game of yours. In the other thread, when people mentioned comprehensive, national level data, you sidestepped it. In this thread, when people use their own personal experiences, you dismiss as it as exceptional circumstances. What would it take to convince you that there is something majorly wrong in the American healthcare system? Because it seems no matter how comprehensive the evidence you find some way of dismissing it.
As for personal experiences and such, my uncle was a psychiatrist in a suburb of Baltimore for some 30 years. You will not find a single person more staunchly in favor of single payer healthcare.
The arrangement insurance companies had with his hospital was something that would make most people really pissed off: they got X amount for population covered in their area per year. If they kept their costs under X, they turned a profit, if it came out over X, they had to cover the difference themselves.
That (and other stories like that) are the reasons why I think tort reform is a major threat to people. Insurance companies really put a lot of pressure on doctors to reduce costs and tests, and the only thing that pushes against that is the threat of legal action.