so ... basically dr. paul's response is to hope that some charitable group or friends/families pay to save this hypothetical man's life ... what i find interesting is:
1. he advocated the man get an insurance plan after saying the system is geared to favour the insurance companies
2. if friends/families are left to pay the medical costs of the uninsured man - how many more bankruptcies are we going to see? ... many medical treatments cost so much that not many middle-class/poor families could afford to pay for that ...
The reality of it is that right now you need a policy, he conceded that.
But he has also made it well know that if things were run right costs would go down. He said that there is no competition so doctors can charge what they want, and are not worried about the insurance companies paying it. When he was practicing he never accepted Medicare, but he kept his rates low so the office visit was barely more than a co-pay costs now. Now the entire industry is out of control, he is simply calling for an overhaul.
The reality of it is that right now you need a policy, he conceded that.
But he has also made it well know that if things were run right costs would go down. He said that there is no competition so doctors can charge what they want, and are not worried about the insurance companies paying it. When he was practicing he never accepted Medicare, but he kept his rates low so the office visit was barely more than a co-pay costs now. Now the entire industry is out of control, he is simply calling for an overhaul.
i agree wholeheartedly that the system needs to be blown up and that the special / corporate interests are the ones being served now ... where i differ from paul is that i think health care should be nationalized and run by the gov't .. and that for the majority of care - covered by the gov't ... obviously, it has to be run as efficiently as possible with the public and taxpayers interest at heart and not drug companies or the like ...
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The reality of it is that right now you need a policy, he conceded that.
But he has also made it well know that if things were run right costs would go down. He said that there is no competition so doctors can charge what they want, and are not worried about the insurance companies paying it. When he was practicing he never accepted Medicare, but he kept his rates low so the office visit was barely more than a co-pay costs now. Now the entire industry is out of control, he is simply calling for an overhaul.
i agree wholeheartedly that the system needs to be blown up and that the special / corporate interests are the ones being served now ... where i differ from paul is that i think health care should be nationalized and run by the gov't .. and that for the majority of care - covered by the gov't ... obviously, it has to be run as efficiently as possible with the public and taxpayers interest at heart and not drug companies or the like ...