my payment for medical services has always gone DOWN.
i get paid about 1/2 - 1/3 the amount i use to get paid 10 years ago!!
meanwhile my office expense goes up every year, and my malpractice goes up every year.
trail lawyers are costing you more than you can ever imagine, including possibly your life. why should i operate on someone who has no insurance, when my out of pocket COST for doing the surgery is about $1000 per case? I have to pay REAL DOLLARS for malpractice insurance, office rent, and office personel, office equipment, etc. this works out to about nearly $1000 per sugery. If i'm gonna get paid NOTHING, why should i do it? I'm not going to go broke to take care of your unemployed cousin Billie BoB.
your health care costs are up because insurance companies want to make a profit, "Managed care" companies are in the business of makjing money, they don't really do anything but act as a broker, buying and selling "coverd lives" like poker chips, and pocketing a feww dollars with each transaction..middle men consolidators that pass on the "savings" TO THEMSELVES!
your blind if you think lawyers help you, and doctors are out to hurt you. the overwhelming majority of malpractice lawsuits get dismissed where i practice (80%?) of those that actually ever make it to trial, 75% of those go in favor of the doctor...a miniscule percent of malpractice claims ever end up going in favor of the plantiff.
now out of that system of limited health care dollars, a steady stream of physician income and hospital income goes to paying insurance executives, plantiffs attorneys, and defendants attorneys. They ALL make good money,. so instead of your health care dollars paying for another nurse, hiring a new doctor, buying a new MRI machine, a sizable chunck of your health care dollars goes every year to supportin a vast industry of attorneys and insurance executives (and the stock of the insurance company). in return, a MINISCULE number of malpractice cases go in favor of the plantiffs.
do you believe that is the most efficient and best way to spend your health care dollars?
the canadian system which liberals generally hold up as a model for use in this country...there malpractice system consists of a judge. your lawyer and the plantiffs lawyer tell the judge what they want, and the judge makes a decision. malpractice awards generally only occcur if the wrong limb was amputated, or the wrong patient was operated on! If you check the system out on other "highly developed" countries touteed as having execellent health care systems....essentially NO malpractice system...more like a workers comp system..
it's up to you...support tort reform...more of your money goes towards taking care of you..
support the lawyers and the insurance companies...if you think that gets you "better care"
who am i to decide..i only work there..
. The root of the problem seems to be that doctor bills are too high. Instead of just providing free insurance, we should work to lower those bills somehow by finding out why those bills are so high. From what I hear, malpractice insurance is a huge one. So we should work to find a way to lower malpractice insurance. Why is it so high? Maybe because people are suing doctors too much, or because insurance companies are crooked, or both? These are the issues we should be fixing. If we fix these problems, we won't need Universal Healthcare.
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