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byeya

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7. There was also a recent report that estimated as much as 10%

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2012, 11:24 AM

May 2012

of the insurance billing is computer driven fraud and abuse.
Health care, not health insurance, is what the argument should be about and insurance
companies need to be written out of the equation.

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REPORT: US Spends More, Gets Less, On Health Care Than Other Industrialized Nations [View all] kpete May 2012 OP

Well, sure, but the wealthy corporate investors in London and Hong Kong... Scuba May 2012 #1

But do the doctors drive Lexus' and live in mansions in those other countries? Bandit May 2012 #2

Ask a younger primary care physician about their student loans... hunter May 2012 #11

Endlessly embarrassing BeyondGeography May 2012 #3

Which of these other nations have a huge health insurance racket to support? MatthewStLouis May 2012 #4

Bingo! hifiguy May 2012 #5

This is so true. ananda May 2012 #6

There was also a recent report that estimated as much as 10% byeya May 2012 #7

interesting hfojvt May 2012 #8

I think it's more than just vanity surgery..... marmar May 2012 #10

I don't find these aggregate cost statistics informing mathematic May 2012 #9

We have far bigger bloodsucking vampire Rex May 2012 #12

Even for those with coverage it's ALL trial-&-error medicine here. TOO BAD for you if you patrice May 2012 #13

And we enshrined this atrocity through the force of Law kenny blankenship May 2012 #14

Simple fix: Abolish the parasitical health insurance industry; establish nationalized health care. Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #15

We should have never gone with a system created Rex May 2012 #16

This can't be true Cali_Democrat May 2012 #17