Quite Obviously, The u.s. Health Care System Has Gone to Hell.

[Broadslidin]

From today's New York Times:
"Treated for Illness, Then Lost In Labyrinth of Bills"

The Ontario Nurses Association has reported:
Medical single payer non-profit administrative cost
in Ontario, Canada totals 3% (Three Percent).
According to this N.Y.T. report,
the medical administrative cost in the fascist u.s. is 30%
and the victims of the 'for profit Con Game'
drown in nearly unreadable threatening paperwork.

The World Health Organization has it correct in stating:
the u.s. ranks a lowly 37th in the world
in providing health care service.

Instead of 'system',
how about "Con Game".
For confirmation, Just ask the
Right Honourable u.s. Senator Bill Frisk
and H.C.A.'s $850 Million Dollar Fine
for Medicare double and triple billing.
(No corporate executive admissions to committing a crime
were required in this federal government settlement.)

[rodeodance]

1. it is wrong to call it a 'system'--it is more like a band-aid approach--

big bandages for the well off and insures. and goes downhill to no bandages at all.

[shoelace414]

2. We MUST HAVE single payer health insurance.

[Divernan]

3. My Mom's paperwork from Medicare & private insurer is gobbledygook.

I mean, I am trained and experienced at reviewing insurance contracts, but am left perplexed by the overlapping, massive numbers of documents sent to me as her caretaker. And I notice it takes more than a year for documents to arrive re a particular claim. How an elderly person on their own is expected to wade through all this paperwork is beyond me!

I recently took a CLE seminar on Medicaid, and the instructor started out with a couple of quotes from Supreme Court opinions that the Medicaid legislation is the most tortured, nightmarish piece of legislation they had ever seen.

[Bellamia]

5. On my own

and I find it "beyond me", at times. With this new bit about Drug coverage thru Medicare, it is beoynd Beyond, simply unfathomable at the moment. I found an insurer that won't charge a penalty if I don't sign up til May 2006. Hooray, there is light at the end of the tunnel! By then I should be able to understand it.!

[indepat]

4. 37th in the world: extreme RW ideology and agenda bearing bountiful fruit.

Surely 37th or worse benchmark is in store for many other facets of our economy and society.