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Originally Posted by G8RDuc
Not sure I agree with you on all points, Cutter.
Frivolous lawsuits are a big part of a practice's budget. The insurance required to carry by some doctors can total over $500k a year. One particular doctor I know is one of a few spinal surgery doctors and his malpractice insurance alone was over $800k.
I do agree that pharmaceutical companies charge too much, but the regulations placed on them are just crazy. Everyone wanted pills from Canada because they're cheaper, but no one bothers to think about the regulations put on our companies that make them charge what they do.
I think most of us would agree, instead of reforming the system, let's fix what needs to be fixed and leave well enough alone. We have one of the best life expectancy rates in the world, we discover more cures then any other country, we DO have free insurance if you goto the ER and have no coverage. Why do we feel the need to overhaul the whole thing?
Our government has proven it can't handle their current health programs, they're abuse on a daily basis (medicare, workmans comp, etc) and all of the other programs that it tries to run (how in the world can the Post Office be losing money? Poor management...). Why do they think they can run something as important as health care?
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Well the way the current health care system is ran, it will become more and more unattainable for more and more people, so instead of cheap preventive maintenance, they wait until the pain gets extreme and end up needing a pound of cure, in a emergency room, then tax payers foot the bill once again, in a broken system.
It's like people not affording a fairly cheap oil change, so they wait until the oil becomes sludge and seizes the motor, now they go to the overpriced 24 hour mechanic to get it rebuilt.
We need to keep people from going to the emergency room for care that can be handled by a doctors visit.
We spend more to maintain a broken system, then it would cost for a public option.
Though we do need to have a deductible for health care, maybe a swinging deductible to make it attainable for different income families, so it doesn't become a same out of reach scenario, but it will also distract from people abusing it.
Also setting up a home care guide on what to look for, and simple treatments for common ailments, and warning signs as to when to come in.
No point in seeing a real doctor in a expensive hospital for a cold, sprained ankle, cracked rib, when all you need is some pain medication and a bandage, set up those minute clinics to handle those matters.
Subsidize free yearly physicals for everyone, that should distract people from letting something go to far without it being looked at.
If this system doesn't need reform, it sure does need a frame off restoration.