health insurance: Health Insurance Should Be Illegal
- 12/21/09 01:46 AM
The current debate on health care reform is not actually about health care, but rather about health insurance. Health insurance companies do not provide health care, they facilitate the overcharges made by real health care providers. They are only the villains insofar as they are following the instructions of their policyholders, "Pay the providers whatever they want." Prior to the widespread availability of major medical insurance coverage, doctors, drug companies, laboratories, hospitals, charged what an average patient could pay. In the "60's, it cost about three weeks pay for an average low level, clock punching worker to pay the doctor and hospital for … (22 comments)
The current debate on health care reform is not actually about health care, but rather about health insurance. Health insurance companies do not provide health care, they facilitate the overcharges made by real health care providers. They are only the villains insofar as they are following the instructions of their policyholders, "Pay the providers whatever they want." 
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