Why your premiums are so high

[kallend 1,679]

$40.2 Million golden parachute for health insurance CEO (while employee bonuses are frozen).

www.ibamag.com/news/humana-ceo-gets-40m-golden-parachute-as-pushback-against-aetna-merger-increases-29593.aspx

Must be Obama's fault.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[ryoder 1,412]

Now that is interesting that the AMA is taking a stand.
I didn't think they got involved in things like mergers.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[gowlerk 1,956]

Sooner or later it will be one big insurance company. That will make it easier when President Sanders brings in the single payer system.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[SkyDekker 1,155]

Don't forget the death panels.

[NewGuy2005 51]

SkyDekker

Don't forget the death panels.

That's the job I want!!

[jgoose71 0]

This is why I still love the Idea of health savings accounts (with catastrophic health care insurance back up). Less bureaucracy, the better.

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Life, the Universe, and Everything

[winsor 191]

NewGuy2005

***Don't forget the death panels.

That's the job I want!!

Off with their heads.

[jgoose71 0]

winsor

******Don't forget the death panels.

That's the job I want!!

Off with their heads.

An Axe is waaaaayyyyyy cheaper than cancer drugs....

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Life, the Universe, and Everything

[SkyDekker 1,155]

jgoose71

*********Don't forget the death panels.

That's the job I want!!

Off with their heads.

An Axe is waaaaayyyyyy cheaper than cancer drugs....

Trigger finger amputations are cheaper than trauma care too

[turtlespeed 212]

NewGuy2005

***Don't forget the death panels.

That's the job I want!!

What color would you like your black hood to be?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[billvon 2,476]

>This is why I still love the Idea of health savings accounts (with catastrophic health
>care insurance back up). Less bureaucracy, the better.

Agreed. We have one; do you?

[Croc 0]

What can anyone do about it? It is a private company owned by shareholders. If the board of directors approves of the deal, who's business is it but theirs?

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

[kallend 1,679]

Croc

What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[gowlerk 1,956]

kallend

***What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Works for me. But Americans won't accept it because too many of them see it as freebies for lazy ass ethnic types.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[jgoose71 0]

kallend

***What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Life, the Universe, and Everything

[gowlerk 1,956]

Quote

Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

A large part of the advantage of a single payer system is the reduction in the overall size of the bureaucracy needed to support it.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[jgoose71 0]

gowlerk

Quote

Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

A large part of the advantage of a single payer system is the reduction in the overall size of the bureaucracy needed to support it.

Sorry, but that is not how the U.S. government works. They still think government jobs add to the economy.

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Life, the Universe, and Everything

[Croc 0]

kallend

***What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Repeal the Affordable Care Act?

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

[gowlerk 1,956]

Single payer is far more efficient than the obscenity that is the US health insurance industry. They employ legions of people who have the sole job of denying claims and making payments as difficult as possible. Ask your doctor how hard it is to get paid and how much she spends collecting from them.

The US government would not be the single payer. More likely it would be 50 state government agencies with varying degrees of private sector contracting.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[Phil1111 943]

jgoose71

******What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21618788-americas-health-care-system-remains-dysfunctional-it-could-be-made-better-how-fix

http://www.economist.com/news/21678669-americas-big-spending-health-care-doesnt-pay

http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/news/modernmedicine/modern-medicine-feature-articles/why-canada-beats-us-controlli

[billvon 2,476]

>Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

Oh, they say that all the time.

Here's a whole NEW bureaucracy - the TSA! Yeah! (said everyone who was scared of terrorists)

Let's build a big wall that will be the biggest government project ever! Yeah! (said Trump supporters)

[ryoder 1,412]

jgoose71

******What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Yea!!!! More Bureaucracy!!!! (Said no one ever.....)

I spent SEVEN months this year trying to get through to Cigna that I had canceled their dental plan at the same time as I canceled their medical plan. Both were purchased via the Colorado ACA office. I had to put a stop payment order on my bank account to keep them out of it. Cigna kept insisting that I could not cancel my own dental plan because it was purchased via the CO ACA, so they could only accept a cancelation from the CO ACA. I kept telling them that not only had the CO ACA notified them TWICE at my request, but I had the copy of the letter from Cigna acknowledging this. Then they started threatening to turn my account over to a collection agency. Then when I finally got through to them to cancel it, they automatically re-instated it. Then I had a one hour 3-way call with both Cigna and the CO ACA with the CO ACA telling them it had been canceled six months earlier.

So tell me how much more bureaucracy a single-payer system would be.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[turtlespeed 212]

gowlerk

******What can anyone do about it?

Single payer system.

Works for me. But Americans won't accept it because too many of them see it as freebies for lazy ass ethnic types.

Um - no, at least not for me.
There would be no course of action for antitrust.There is a reason for anti trust laws.

Ma Bell was getting to big for its britches - so the government forced them to split.

Single payer kinda negates that possibility.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[gowlerk 1,956]

Wow, do you live in left field? So many of your ideas seem to come from there! Single provider would be a monopoly. Single payer is a socialist system of paying. Everyone is covered. America is too frightened to go there. Middle America would rather just hope that there own lives won't be ruined in a personal medical crisis. They know it will happen to someone, but maybe it will be a neighbor, and not them. That way they won't be forced to give coverage to "thugs". And white trash. And all the others they fear.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[billvon 2,476]

>There would be no course of action for antitrust.

Yet police, the military, roads, air traffic control, EMS services, water services and utilities work pretty well under that model.